Why does everyone seem to care so much about Eugene McCarthy?

[UrbScotty]

You need to understand that news of his death is overshadowed by a more serious issue:

THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE IS IN GRAVE DANGER!!

You see, gays and lesbians want to destroy marriage! I can't believe you liberals don't see that!

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

Just in case you needed a reminder of how LAME this whole gay marriage debate is :eyes:

[Deja Q]

1. Yeah, but Eugene didn't viciously kill a bunch of people.

And we gays have been discriminated against for a period a lot longer than before the inane constitutional amendment was put into place...

[roguevalley]

2. because he's overshadowing the war on christmas right now

Isn't this country sad?

[Peace Patriot]

3. Eugene McCarthy once wrote a poem entitled, "Now We Are 50 and Free!"

How I mourn him! He was such a fine man and true patriot. He carried the torch for the antiwar American MAJORITY in 1968, when no one else would speak for the people in the forum of presidential politics. Robert Kennedy--a more "electable" candidate, as they say--then picked up the torch with great passion and commitment, and was headed to the White House, just after winning the California primary, when he was cut down by an assassination, which, like all the others, has never been properly investigated.

Sad is the word. And also infuriating and enraging. Cut down one right after the other, a peace president who fought the CIA over Cuba and Vietnam (JFK), our winning peace candidate in '68 (RFK), a national figure who had just come out publicly against the war (in '68) and was in a position to influence policy (MLK), and Paul Wellstone, in '02, who was to be the leader of the anti-Iraq war forces in Congress and was headed to the White House.

Bang, bang, shoot, shoot--as John Lennon once wrote.

Yet another advocate for peace.

Gee, you'd think there was some kind of conspiracy going on here.

Thinking of 1968, I just want to get sick all over my keyboard. Excuse me for a moment...