Re: [Marxism] Obama is toast?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter wrote:
>(When have we ever had a US politician who could possibly
>become president saying things like this??? NEVER.)

Actually, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy were all 
much more to the left than Obama. But that was in 1968 and 1972 when 
objective conditions in the country forced politicians to shift to the left.

 From George McGovern's 1972 acceptance speech:

I have no secret plan for peace.  I have a public plan. And as one 
whose heart has ached for the past ten years over the agony of 
Vietnam, I will halt a senseless bombing of Indochina on Inaugural Day.

There will be no more Asian children running ablaze from bombed-out 
schools. There will be no more talk of bombing the dikes or the 
cities of the North.

And within 90 days of my inauguration, every American soldier and 
every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their 
cells and then home in America where they belong.

And then let us resolve that never again will we send the precious 
young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt 
military dictatorship abroad.

This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation 
overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation. America must be 
restored to a proper role in the world. But we can do that only 
through the recovery of confidence in ourselves.

full: http://www.4president.org/speeches/mcgovern1972acceptance.htm


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