Politico (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was, after all, Richard Nixon doing exactly that — raising an untold amount of money and blowing George McGovern out of the water — that created the public funding system in the first place,” Potter added during a panel discussion of the 2008 presidential campaign. But Obama’s campaign lawyer Bob Bauer, also on the panel, balked at the Nixon comparison, calling Potter’s analysis “a...
The Brad Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. It's interesting that voter turnout in California last month topped both of former Gov. Ronald Reagan's presidential elections, as well as all other elections going back to 1972 when Richard Nixon, another Californian, trounced George McGovern: More than 60 percent of Californians who were eligible to vote cast ballots in [...]
Pensito Review (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
It’s interesting that voter turnout in California last month topped the numbers for both of former Gov. Ronald Reagan’s presidential elections, as well as all other elections going back to 1972 when Richard Nixon, another Californian, trounced George McGovern: More than 60 percent of Californians who were eligible to vote cast ballots in the Nov. 4 [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... meaning he was close to being shipped off to the Vietnam War. Both Nixon and Democratic nominee George McGovern said at the time they would pull out of Vietnam, Howard recalled.Nixon won re-election in a landslide.Five years later, he admitted to English journalist Frost that he may have broken the law in the 1972 break-in of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
In one memo, Alabama Gov. George Wallace was branded a "psychotic" who could be useful in making trouble for his fellow Democrats. Thomas Eagleton's treatments for mental illness were reported to Nixon's secretary in other correspondence before that disclosure forced him to resign as Democrat George McGovern's running mate on the 1972 ticket.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
In one memo, Alabama Gov. George Wallace was branded a "psychotic" who could be useful in making trouble for his fellow Democrats. Thomas Eagleton's treatments for mental illness were reported to Nixon's secretary in other correspondence before that disclosure forced him to resign as Democrat George McGovern's running mate on the 1972 ticket.
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Rich Lowry: CHANGE has rarely looked so much like continuity. Barack Obama 's leftward positioning and achingly idealistic rhetoric in the Democratic primaries harkened back to George McGovern or Robert Kennedy. His personnel choices during the transition instead recall Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts technocrat who notoriously ran on competence. Obama is too savvy a marketer to have...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
CHANGE has rarely looked so much like continuity. Barack Obama's leftward positioning and achingly idealistic rhetoric in the Democratic primaries harkened back to George McGovern or Robert Kennedy. His personnel choices during the transition...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Change has rarely looked so much like continuity. Barack Obama's leftward positioning and achingly idealistic rhetoric in the Democratic primaries harkened back to George McGovern or Robert Kennedy. His personnel choices during the transition instead recall Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts technocrat who notoriously ran on competence. Obama is too savvy a marketer to have tried to make...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Change has rarely looked so much like continuity. Barack Obama's leftward positioning and achingly idealistic rhetoric in the Democratic primaries harkened back to George McGovern or Robert Kennedy. His personnel choices during the transition instead recall Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts technocrat who notoriously ran on competence. Obama is too savvy a marketer to have tried to...
Politico (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Tuesday, the National Archives released nearly 200 more hours of Nixon White House tapes that revealed more of him ranting about everything from George McGovern to "working" people and tokenism.A few months ago I saw “Nixon’s Nixon” at a community theater near where I live. It is a two-person play about Nixon and Henry Kissinger meeting in the White House on the eve of Nixon’s resignation....
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... problems, and struggling to contain growing public unrest over the war in Vietnam.Alabama Gov. George Wallace was branded a "psychotic" who could be useful in making trouble for his fellow Democrats. Thomas Eagleton's treatments for mental illness were reported to Nixon's secretary before that disclosure forced him to resign from the 1972 Democratic ticket.The Nixon Library, run by the National...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, Eric Holder, Robert Gates and Hillary Rodham Clinton? What? Were George McGovern and Jimmy Carter unavailable to serve in the new administration'O.K. now, everyone please hold hands, close your eyes and repeat after me: I think it’s change, I think it’s change, I think it’s change. Open your eyes when you truly believe. Change we can believe in ... against...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Change has rarely looked so much like continuity.Barack Obama’s leftward positioning and achingly idealistic rhetoric in the Democratic primaries harkened back to George McGovern or Robert Kennedy. His personnel choices during the transition instead recall Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts technocrat who notoriously ran on competence.Obama is too savvy a marketer to have tried to make...
Mount Virtus (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... card-check process, which would replace the secret ballot election:Even the Left’s elder statesman George McGovern has spoken out against the union bill (”It’s hard to believe that any politician would agree to a law denying millions of employees the right to a private vote”):With the Democrats’ large majority in the House, there is no doubt that Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer & company...
