Campagin 1968: Hubert Humphrey

[BIGJXXX]

DC can't be a state. I wish y'all pro-staters understand that

[UncleMikeNJ]

Happy 100th Birthday, Hubert. I'm sorry I wasn't around to make you President.

[mindspring57]

Hubert, who was LBJ's Vice President, is someone to talk. LBJ escaled the Vietnam War, put 500,000+ men under arms, and did not have a clue on how to win the war. LBJ's "social programs" stirred up the lazy and the shiftless and caused rioting in the streets and once-great cities (e.g. Los Angeles, Newark, Detroit) were in flames. LBJ's successor, Nixon, ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

[UncleMikeNJ]

@mindspring57 The lazy and the shiftless? That's the CEOs, not the people who break their backs working for them. And if Nixon ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam, why were we putting people on helicopters 8 months after Ford became President?

[ProgRockNerd]

@UncleMikeNJ : That's because the U.S. still had an embassy in Saigon. You'll notice it's always the same shot. There was a cease-fire signed a week after Nixon's second inaugural (that's when the POWs came home, remember); it was a really momentous event, and it's a measure of the Mechanism's narrative-setting power that hardly anyone seems to remember it. An exclusive emphasis on the fall of Saigon years after U.S. combat troops had left serves the reactionary narrative better.

[v19d]

@ProgRockNerd 2012 will be the year that the Radical left and so called progressives will be shown out the door everywhere there is a 2012 election with those 2 types in office. I for one will make sure my money is sent to Puerto Rico independence parties regardless how left they are. But they seem to be the only group that has independence in its platform while the rest want to become the 51st state. DC will be the last territory to become a state.

[ProgRockNerd]

@v19d "Out" the door? I hardly know of any who've gotten *in*! OTOH, the public has already soured on teabagger neo-Birchers who are sorry 1967 happened; corporate centrists like BHO look pretty good in comparison. Here's hoping the What's Left doesn't make the same mistake in 2012 that they made in 1968.

[v19d]

@ProgRockNerd The mistakes are already here and you just have to notice that it was a progressive President who got fooled by the Brits/French Government along the the Brits/French Government friend Hillary Clinton. The majority of both houses of Congress and majority of Americans don't support the bombing of Libya. Why because we need to focus on the debt. The less US territories that join America would be better for America in the long run. Of course DC is on land and should be a state.

[ProgRockNerd]

@v19d: Did you support the Iraq war?

[v19d]

Hubert Humphrey knows what he's talking about. Why didn't Obama learn from Humphrey but no Obama has to listen to a bunch of anarchists that Humphrey hated. Obama needs to stop acting like he's Eugene McCarthy. Or how about stop acting like Nixon on how to run a Country. Obama thinks he's Reagan. Couldn't Obama listen to people that know what they learn but instead Obama learns from reactionaries and anarchists. I just feel sad for America for still following Obama. Obama destroyed the Dems.

[v19d]

@v19d Hubert Horatio Humphrey is surely turning over in his grave. Obama flushed the Democratic Party down the toliet. Obama since taken office drove those who switched to the Democratic Party like me from the GOP back to the GOP or something else because Obama has a egg for a brain.

[mindspring57]

@v19d No, that was McGovern who flushed the Democrats down the toilet, when he said he would go crawling on his hands and knees to Hanoi. As for Obama, under his leadership, Osama bin Laden was killed, something George Bush could not or would not do. Instead of pursuing bin Laden, Bush started a war looking for mythical weapons, and all he has to show for it is 4,000+ dead soldiers.

[FRSFreeState]

Hubert Humpfrey probably could've made a good President but he was LBJ Vice President and had that to carry. When LBJ was very unpopular because of Vietnam . Plus he was running against Richard Nixon who was one of the most skillful politicians America has ever seen.

[ToaJoe]

HH should have won, Nixon deserved his presidency four years later.

[billthestinker]

dump the hump!

[PawtucketPatriot66]

My mother always told me when she was younger and Hubert Humphery was VP, she thought Hubert Humphery looked like a pedophile. I have to say she is right.

I'm nosaying he was, but something about him didn't look right.

[llar87]

@PawtucketPatriot66

I heard that someone's mother thought you were a pedophile too

[AndreasAntoniusMaria]

Humphrey was the vice president of Lyndon B. Johnson and the favorite candidate for president for the elite of the democratic party. That is why he probably lost, be it with a very small margin.

LBJ was THE FOOL under wich leadership the Vietnam war became a total mess. If you want to fight a war, and you want to win, you'll have to be willing to fight a total war. If you are not prepared to do that then you should not go to war. Afterwards easy, but true: LBJ should have witdrawn V in 1964.

[marcparella]

On the eve of the inauguration, how fitting Mr. Humprey's words are today... Are you listening George?

[chicygirl]

Humphrey, who was the best speaker I ever heard, says in this video, "Any fool can get this country in trouble. It takes a wise man to get us out." How appropriate then and how appropriate today .... especially today!

[greeniem]

i want you