1968 Democratic Convention part 4

1968 Democratic Convention part 4 of 4

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[Seasass]

Thanks for uploading. This was a clear, balanced explanation of what exactly happened in that disastrous convention, and it helped me understand an event I knew only through the fog of childhood.

[mitch19872]

Thanks! I always thought it was pretty balanced to.

[Bucho33]

Guess you havent been paying attention to the Ron Paul Revolution, which the media claims is mostly youth. I suspect this exact even will happen again. The only difference is, i think we are stronger now than we were in 1968, we have awoken a lot more people of political influence to Constitutional principles, not just unjust wars.

[etienne818]

HH (a good man caught between a rock and hard-place!) would make his acceptance speech before a huge national TV audience, and he later wrote that this was the "most humiliating night of my life." So afraid that the delegates would walk out (en masse!) during his live-TV address (and dooming any chance of his being president). Humphrey threw out his pre-arranged speech and simply spoke from his heart - he, in some way, "connected" with the majority still in attendance - and won the moment!

[etienne818]

Folks (!) as awful as this is to watch, these bloodied and beaten protestors still had the right of "due process." Do you know that today (!) as a result of Obama's signing (into law) on 12/31/11, the NDAA ("National Defence Authorization Act") that, this (!) very same event would be labeled a "terrorist exercise" and "protestors" could simply forever "disappear?" Yes! Gone without a "hearing," before a judge - gone without trial! Your Constitution is gone too! You thought '68 was bad? Study!

[jasonmoyer]

19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day

[Dave Furgess]

Vietnam was started by the Democrats and it's most bloody years were under LBJ a Democrat!

[Leslie Korshak]

Dear Chana,

I was a demonstrator, delegate, writer for the entertainers for McCarthy and then the film person for the violence commission and let me tell you - this was by far the best, most accurate and least agenda driven summation of one of the pivital weeks in his-story... thank you!

[schnuurtchke]

I do agree to some extent, but right now the Republicans seem to be the immature party and the Democrats seem to be the ones who are not ready to govern. Democrats are perceived as the big tent party, while the Republicans have let the narrow minded extremists take over the party. For a long while from '32 to '68 the Democrats won every presidential election save 2. Then the Republicans dominated now it's the Democrats again. These things seem to be going in cycles.

[RenShiWu]

1968 demonstrated that the Democrat Party is not a party of adults - both because of its youth contingent and its overall immaturity. That is why the Republicans have won the presidency so often since that time. And don't forget that Carter barely won against a Watergate-hobbled Ford, Clinton could not get a plurality versus a media-maligned Bush, and Gore could not eke out a victory against the younger Bush despite the media trying to call Florida for him (Gore) so early.

[WretchMg]

more like 20

[schnuurtchke]

It is safe to say that this was the turning point. The Dems had won 7 of the past 9 presidential elections, after this they only won 1 of the next 6. The other turning point occurred in '96 when Clinton became the first Dem to be reelected since FDR. Since '92 the Dems have won all but 1, K 2 but remember, Gore got a lot more popular vote than Bush. The turning point for the Reps came in '92 when they aligned themselves with anti Christs like Jerry Falwell.