Reply #7: He may not have played it up, but he sure as hell didn't hide it. [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

I knew about it and I was just a dumb 19 yr old kid.

"Btw, the CLINTONs cut their teeth working in his campaign, and THEIR years in the WH were marked by military people claiming to be mistreated by them."

Interesting that you are apparently the FIRST clinton supporter to remember this - I wonder, how's she have such cred with the military, then? They were the same as those you now disparage in the Obama camp.

Nevermind that Obama has never claimed to be anti-war, or anti-military (unlike Hillary not too many years ago), but actually has a reasonable and rational approach to national security that doesn't depend on 'bomb them before they bomb us'.

"a relatively small group, as such groups always are" - re-writing history a bit? In 1971 half the people I knew were against the war, and I was living on a fucking military base. Nixon claimed to be against the war - or don't you remember his 'secret plan' to get us out of Vietnam? The republicans called it a 'Democratic war' and 'LBJ's war', and played on 'peace with honor', scaring eveyone to think that if they voted in a Democrat the war would continue, or, conversely, we would withdraw dishonorably. The silent majority was neither silent nor the majority. And McGovern so scared Nixon that he had CREEPs breaking into offices, pulling dirty tricks - essentially, everything that is Rovian today was originally Nixonian, and we had never come up against that to anywhere near that degree. THAT is why McGovern lost = because the government said one thing, he said another, and in those days people actually believed the government would not lie.

You're DAMN RIGHT I'll show up. The truth cannot be hidden under a basket.