tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3328172973041552990..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Two and a half men from the 1960sDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-61386937213064151712012-03-12T01:20:34.615-04:002012-03-12T01:20:34.615-04:00A most relevant point, Professor, in that none of ...A most relevant point, Professor, in that none of the remaining candidates have recently held office. Except, of course, Dr. Paul.<br /><br />I really think the good Doctor could form a wholly new political voting block. If he could just tweak his message<br />a bit and focus on anti-Wall St., anti-Fed, anti-Aggressive foreign intervention, anti government intrusiveness. I'd like to think the time or Libertarian doctrine is now, it just needs an effective spokesperson of the current generation. Perhaps his progeny?<br /><br />It should not be lost that his message, in tempered form, could appeal simultaneously to Tea Partiers and OWS, north and south and Gen X and Millie.<br /><br />I think Mittens is the sacrificial lamb until '16. Though probably a capable commander in Chief, he is in the wrong place at the wrong timeNxNW 74noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-26077051343636843362012-03-11T10:42:22.600-04:002012-03-11T10:42:22.600-04:00This idea of somewhat flexible generations dependi...This idea of somewhat flexible generations depending on parental influence I find interesting. There is a standard cut off date but it all depends doesn't it? My father was a WWII vet and I was born in 1965 when he was 41. So I have the birth date of an Xer but the parental influence of a boomer. One could have "hangover" boomer rebelliousness or have missed the boat entirely in own X generation? My father's father was about 46 when my father was born. So these things could be out of whack down many generations for some people leaving them completely out of the picture, isolated form their cohorts to some extent emotionally. Lots to ponder there on the general theory. Anyway good generational analysis of the candidates. <br /><br />I am now reading a history of the US Civil War and Mcclellan is a frustrating military figure at best when compared to such genius as Lee. But as I see Mcclellan was born in 1826 so was gilded and not transcendental so less agressive (like Obama say). (besides his being a northern democrat so was more conciliatory to the South).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-80912068259893360602012-03-10T18:05:46.307-05:002012-03-10T18:05:46.307-05:00Professor
One of the delusions, it seems to me, i...Professor<br /><br />One of the delusions, it seems to me, is to look back at the era of WW II as some halcyon era in American politics.<br /><br />My view is that that was not the case.<br /><br />All the best,<br />GMBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com