McGovern, again ahead of his time.

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1112-30.htm

McGovern seems like a great guy! So what issues was he liberal on except being against Vietnam?

[pleiku52cab]

1. Damn - I didn't realize so few of us voted for him

[MotownLew]

2. This may not change the World, but...

My very first political thought was in 1971. I was 6. I told my mom that I thought McGovern was a better choice than Richard Nixon.

I don't know how she voted, but I remember quite vividly the day Nixon took off from the White House lawn in a helicopter, disgraced.

Geez. I voted for Reagan in my first election but maybe I was a liberal from birth?

[charlyvi]

3. My very first Presidential vote

was for McGovern. I thought he was wonderful.

[jean]

6. My first vote for president was for McGovern, as well.

[charlyvi]

8. It feels like we're still trying to swim upstream,

doesn't it.

[OrwellwasRight]

4. Pro-busing, pro-social welfare...

few details, but here is a speech and some other links, fyi

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_190.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830906.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-1972

I am a McGovern fan, but I don't think he adequately foresaw the destruction of leadership that our current presidential primary system would lead to...

[teach1st]

5. I don't remember his platform...

...except for his stance on Vietnam.

I do remember the feeling among my friends when he lost. "How can America be so stupid?" we wondered. We were ready to give up.

Vietnam veterans like Ron Kovic, who spoke out against the war, had been belittled at the Republican convention. Nixon had learned from the 1968 Democratic convention and did a good job of keeping the media away from the action outside the Miami Convention Center. Tear gas drifted throught the Miami streets and few heard about it. It seemed to us that Nixon had the media in his crooked pockets.

Dirty tricksters worked overtime to smear McGovern. Why didn't the media expose this? Why couldn't the American people see this?

We almost gave up. How could America vote so overwhelmingly against McGovern. The "silent majority," we were told, was victorious. Values. But we didn't give up.

[WarNoMore]

7. This Masshole

voted for Mcgovern. (and to think my son had the imptression that I had voted for Nixon.)

[ramapo]

9. Come Home America

I vividly remember watching McGovern's acceptance speech. Too bad it was at midnight or even later. That was before the day stage-managed convention.

McGovern (a decorated veteran) was labeled by the GOP as an anti-american, VC sympathizer who was against law and order and would allow the hippies, demonstrators, and rioters to tear down America. Ok so I'm exaggerating just a little bit, but not much.

I wasn't able to vote for McGovern but I have so much respect for him.

Listen to him speak about world hunger and how our country has misseed such an opportunity to lead the world not with bombs and killing but by feeding and helping the hundreds of millions who are suffering.

[MaineYooper]

10. He has always impressed me

with his intelligence, grasp of complex issues (imagine that in a public figure), compassion, and general decency. We could use a lot more people with his integrity in our government.

[OrwellwasRight]

11. Here, here.

Or is it hear, hear?

[Jim__]

12. McGovern, a WWII hero, favored a guaranteed annual income for every

American family. His opponent, Nixon, who was bombing the hell out of Vietnam, avoided combat in WWII by claiming to be a pacifist. Doesn't seem like much has changed.