6 Comments

1. October 22nd, 2012 / 7:29 pm Brooks Sterritt—

   nice simul-post

2. October 22nd, 2012 / 8:39 pm A D Jameson—

   Yeah! I was a second faster than you, though:)

3. October 22nd, 2012 / 8:39 pm A D Jameson—

   I wonder if his name will come up tonight in the debate… (I predict not.)

4. October 22nd, 2012 / 8:44 pm Brooks Sterritt—

   like 3-4 minutes faster :) (according to twitter) because apparently i just sit there hitting preview compulsively though nothing changes

5. October 22nd, 2012 / 9:57 pm Grant Maierhofer—

   One of the major 20th century political eye-openers for the democratic party and Americans in general: the stuffiness of the American public essentially destroying McGovern’s political career (he really was a great guy, with largely important political ideas) and choosing the insidious Nixon over a man whose running mate admitted to having serious (though now acceptable and then certainly manageable) emotional problems was a major fucking let down and set a template for the garbage heap that is US politics today. I think I first really heard about McGovern through Hunter Thompson’s writing, and the fondness with which he describes the man leads to a terrible heartbreak when you realize what happened. I dunno, it’s tough to make any devout statements regarding Eagleton and his mental state, but Nixon… Kudos to McGovern for doing the best he could with what he had after that.

6. October 24th, 2012 / 10:53 am A D Jameson—

   One of my friends, his parents campaigned for McGovern. They never stopped talking about him.