McGovern unloads on Cheney

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcgovern24apr24,1,1800867.story?ctrack=2&cset=true

Hmm, thoughtful and provoking. But lots more zingers, like "I volunteered for military service ... Cheney got five deferments and has never seen a day of combat — a record matched by President Bush."

 

Cheney dreams of being a quarter of the man George McGovern is.

 

49 states for Nixon.
1 for McGovern.

35 years later . . . it doesn't seem as though the country has learned a damn thing.

 

And the "No shit!" award of the day goes to ....

 

It might be "no shit" but what it says about our society is as bleak as anything anyone has ever posted here.

 

Let's not forget the Nixon resigned his office as a result of his actions in the '72 campaign.
I'd even wager that even the Yawns of the board can agree that at least some of Nixon's victory margin was the result of those illegal actions.

 

You guys get waaaay too wound up in what politicians say and do.

 

Policies matter.

The politicians who implement these policies matter.

Representational democracy, and all that.

 

I take a pretty cynical view of politics and politicians. So, no, it doesn't matter to me.

 

Three_Bags --

I mean this question sincerely -- and I've put it to my friends in the military as well, with a variety of different answers -- but how can you serve in the army and not think that policy decisions matter?

Is it a defense mechanism, or partly so?

 

I dunno ... Looking at it from your evident perspective, nearly half the country appears to be in favor of unconditional surrender today. The numbers for running up the white flag were a lot less favorable in 1972.

 

Zeke: I have never, and will never, take an oath that says anything about politics or politicians.