I lived in the East Bay at the time and that night as it became obvious that he’d won CA, I fell asleep in front of the TV only to be awakened by the phone. A fellow campaign worker asking if the TV was on. It seemed impossible that it was happening again. I was a medical assistant then and of course kept hoping Bobby would recover. The doctor I worked for though had already gotten the word on how extensive the head wound was…hopeless. And that’s the way I felt. The funeral was surreal. Estevez’s film captured the era so well that I wept through most of it.

Late that summer I went to Israel for a month and though not planned that way, it became a spiritual journey for me. I didn’t bother to vote that year and the following fall, I, like many young people, turned on, tuned in and dropped out to live in a counter culture community for the next 14 years. I’ve seen the left wing up close. Not everything was bad but a lot was not pretty. Obama personifies everything that was wrong with those days. Most of us matured, evolved as people and moved on from the 60′s. People like Ayers did not. He’s stuck in his own history and he’s a dangerous man. So is Obama.

He’s simply the lesser of two evils.

Most people congregating here are like me, Clinton fans. We feel she got robbed, which she did.

Don’t kid yourself, Obama is the flip side of the neo-con fascist coin.

I remember when Rosie was on the show how I disliked Elizabeth, but now she’s the only one I agree with on that show! Politics makes very strange bedfellows. I’m also shocked at how Barbara is so obviously biased toward BO and against McCain!

Robert F. Kennedy would NEVER have voted for the FISA “compromise.”

O’bambi did.

I think the only way you can mention RFK and Obama in the same breath is to say something like “Obama couldn’t hold a candle to RFK on his best day compared to RFK’s worst.”

RFK had EXPERIENCE on the national stage–REAL experience, over years, not 143 days’ worth. RFK had good judgment and didn’t consort with charletans, sleazebags, hucksters, thieves and people who are labeled in this Post-911 environment as “domestic terrorists.” RFK didn’t promise shit he couldn’t deliver to people. RFK didn’t lie about the problems facing the country, and try to paper over the real worries with catchphrase slogans. RFK appealed to young, old, rich, poor, people from all walks of life–Obama alienates the old and the working class in a big way (and anyone with half a brain at minimum when it comes to national security matters). They’re about as similar as dogshit and cheesecake.

Not much good either from the JFK years. Bobby was mob-like, altho it must be said that may have been a necessary adaptation to opposing the mobs, like he did.

When he was killed, it should have been blamed on Islam, but the MSM never does, not even back then. I regret his assassination, of course, but think the USA would have been poorly served by him as president. Nixon was the better option.