From 'Bernie Who?' to 'Bernie Why Not?'

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I SEE BERNIE SANDERS and I hear Eugene McCarthy.

The "issue" for "Clean, Gene" was the Vietnam War.

The "issue" for the Sand Man centers on an economy he sees (with justification) as unfair and undemocratic.

Two things they had in common: passion and authenticity. Bernie is as authentic as his Brooklyn accent.

Something's pushing him. Age? Destiny? Restless masses looking for the leader - messiah or pied piper - to bring them to an America with liberty and justice for all?

McCarthy was buoyed by the youth (as are Sanders and Rand Paul) when he challenged sitting President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, a race Johnson quit. Then came the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the nomination going to Hubert H. Humphrey and the November election to Richard M. Nixon.

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