Comments on: The Movement http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: beebop http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-208077 beebop Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:41:52 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-208077 Can you elaborate? Can you elaborate?

]]> By: TLE http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-208076 TLE Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:39:30 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-208076 I turned 18 in 1972. I was among the first group of 18 year-olds allowed to vote. I considered myself very liberal, very anti-establishment, and had every intention of voting for McGovern. Then, on election day, I walked into the voting booth, felt the immense responsibility of the act of voting, and decided at the last minute that my parents were older and wiser and had more experience, and voted for their candidate. It was the only time I voted Republican in my life. But it was the time that made a difference. I think now about the youth movement that carried McGovern to the Democratic nomination, and how it failed to deliver him to the White House, and in fact resulted in the most humiliating defeat of any presidential candidate ever. And I hope that this is not the year that history will repeat itself. I turned 18 in 1972. I was among the first group of 18 year-olds allowed to vote. I considered myself very liberal, very anti-establishment, and had every intention of voting for McGovern. Then, on election day, I walked into the voting booth, felt the immense responsibility of the act of voting, and decided at the last minute that my parents were older and wiser and had more experience, and voted for their candidate. It was the only time I voted Republican in my life. But it was the time that made a difference.

I think now about the youth movement that carried McGovern to the Democratic nomination, and how it failed to deliver him to the White House, and in fact resulted in the most humiliating defeat of any presidential candidate ever. And I hope that this is not the year that history will repeat itself.

]]> By: flyarm http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207826 flyarm Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:00:43 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207826 ahhh Teakwood kite..you pick ..i am wide open!! and more than willing!! fly ahhh Teakwood kite..you pick ..i am wide open!! and more than willing!!

fly

]]> By: Smilin' Jim http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207688 Smilin' Jim Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:15:27 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207688 I do not know how that reply addresses any of the my arguments. No matter, this is a place to express yourself. However I do think you are viewing the yuppies that flock to Obama in an altogether too warlike vein. I see young ladies that only want to have Obama's baby accompanied by young men who walk the walk just to get laid. Nonwithstanding my penetrating insights into their libidos, this group would not know a brick of C-4 from a wedge of Brie. Ask for Semtex and you would get a prophylactic. BRASS to them is something that always has to be polished on the yacht. You may stop digging the bunker now. I do not know how that reply addresses any of the my arguments. No matter, this is a place to express yourself.

However I do think you are viewing the yuppies that flock to Obama in an altogether too warlike vein. I see young ladies that only want to have Obama’s baby accompanied by young men who walk the walk just to get laid.

Nonwithstanding my penetrating insights into their libidos, this group would not know a brick of C-4 from a wedge of Brie. Ask for Semtex and you would get a prophylactic. BRASS to them is something that always has to be polished on the yacht.

You may stop digging the bunker now.

]]> By: StatBabe http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207677 StatBabe Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:02:32 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207677 I totally agree with you! Tom Hayden and Todd Gitlin were both former SDS members, and I certainly do not think of them as terrorists. In contrast, Bill Ayers is the very face of domestic terrorism--particularly when he laments that they did not blow up more things! And although the Black Panthers certainly have their violent legacy, I would not group them with the Weatherpeople Underground either as they did not start out as a group hellbent on violence, as was the case with the Weatherpeople Underground. I still recall my parents' former neighbors visiting town back in the 80's--the man was a retired FBI agent who had apparently spent a good bit of his career tracking members of the Weatherpeople Underground. According to him, they were the worst kind of scurge on American society. He spent enough time bitching about the Weatherpeople Underground that it convinced me that these were very bad people. I pointed out to the man that the Weatherpeople had once plotted to mix up DMSO with LSD and spread it all over the Capitol and then watch all of Congress tripping their asses off--a plot with a little humor attached. According to this former G-man, that was one of the more innocuous things that the Weatherpeople Underground had dreamed up--that most of their other activities involved a good deal of death and destruction. I totally agree with you! Tom Hayden and Todd Gitlin were both former SDS members, and I certainly do not think of them as terrorists. In contrast, Bill Ayers is the very face of domestic terrorism–particularly when he laments that they did not blow up more things!

And although the Black Panthers certainly have their violent legacy, I would not group them with the Weatherpeople Underground either as they did not start out as a group hellbent on violence, as was the case with the Weatherpeople Underground.

I still recall my parents’ former neighbors visiting town back in the 80’s–the man was a retired FBI agent who had apparently spent a good bit of his career tracking members of the Weatherpeople Underground. According to him, they were the worst kind of scurge on American society. He spent enough time bitching about the Weatherpeople Underground that it convinced me that these were very bad people. I pointed out to the man that the Weatherpeople had once plotted to mix up DMSO with LSD and spread it all over the Capitol and then watch all of Congress tripping their asses off–a plot with a little humor attached. According to this former G-man, that was one of the more innocuous things that the Weatherpeople Underground had dreamed up–that most of their other activities involved a good deal of death and destruction.

]]> By: dcblogger http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207234 dcblogger Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:17:37 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207234 <em>If I lived in a competitive state, I would vote for McCain over Obama. As an American, I’d have to.</em> More wars, fewer jobs? Or are you just looking for a rerun of Katrina? This blogger will be voting Democratic in November, even if the superdelegates saddle us with a Gravel/Kucinich ticket. If I lived in a competitive state, I would vote for McCain over Obama. As an American, I’d have to.

More wars, fewer jobs? Or are you just looking for a rerun of Katrina? This blogger will be voting Democratic in November, even if the superdelegates saddle us with a Gravel/Kucinich ticket.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207188 Kevin Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:50:25 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207188 "I know He really admires us" Sorry friend... wrong again. “I know He really admires us”

Sorry friend… wrong again.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207182 Kevin Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:47:11 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207182 good points... and "Mr. Hopey Unity Pony" is the funniest one I've heard yet! good points…

and “Mr. Hopey Unity Pony” is the funniest one I’ve heard yet!

]]> By: dcblogger http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207168 dcblogger Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:40:45 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207168 Wow, that video is really unfair, to the point of being bizarre. I was in fifth grade in 1963, as a teenager I stood on the roof top of an office building in Arlington and was Washington, DC burn in 1968, so I remember those times. I also knew lefties, not active ones, but still lefties, who actually believed that the government would fall and we would have a real revolution. The Obama campaign is not like that. It is super obnoxious, but it is not like that. To compare the rhetoric of Mr. Hopey Unity Pony to the Weather Underground is ludicrous. While I appreciate why Rev. Wright is politically radioactive, I don't think it is fair to compare him to Farrakan. Frankly if I were Clinton I would be hoping that video did not make the rounds, because I really don't think it works for her at all. It just looks like the Clinton people are losing it. Wow, that video is really unfair, to the point of being bizarre. I was in fifth grade in 1963, as a teenager I stood on the roof top of an office building in Arlington and was Washington, DC burn in 1968, so I remember those times. I also knew lefties, not active ones, but still lefties, who actually believed that the government would fall and we would have a real revolution.

The Obama campaign is not like that. It is super obnoxious, but it is not like that. To compare the rhetoric of Mr. Hopey Unity Pony to the Weather Underground is ludicrous.

While I appreciate why Rev. Wright is politically radioactive, I don’t think it is fair to compare him to Farrakan.

Frankly if I were Clinton I would be hoping that video did not make the rounds, because I really don’t think it works for her at all. It just looks like the Clinton people are losing it.

]]> By: Hope http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/comment-page-2/#comment-207107 Hope Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:19:22 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/24/the-movement/#comment-207107 God I was so tired of being sucked on. I'm all burnt out now. Put me on the shelf and let me rest in peace will ya Obama and friends. God I was so tired of being sucked on. I’m all burnt out now. Put me on the shelf and let me rest in peace will ya Obama and friends.

]]>