tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post4096203187556987840..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The mysterious Senator ClintonDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-37537394981683156352008-02-04T22:24:00.000-05:002008-02-04T22:24:00.000-05:00I wonder if all those Democrats voting on Tuesday ...I wonder if all those Democrats voting on Tuesday in the primaries are going wake up in the morning convinced that they have to vote for the candidate who can talk sports and play Texas Hold-Em?<BR/><BR/>Heh, I remember that pundits were saying Giuliani would defeat Hillary Clinton in the Senate race face-off that never was by rattling off baseball trivia and making plenty of sports references to appear to the voting sports-crazy public.<BR/><BR/>I know it sound sexist, but I'm just musing...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-36678232544937054902008-02-04T20:00:00.000-05:002008-02-04T20:00:00.000-05:00Wonkette--sorry--you didn't tell the whole story. ...Wonkette--sorry--you didn't tell the whole story. Joseph Mahoney, the bigoted Democrat, was nominated in 1966 by the Democrats in a very close three-way race--the others were liberal Carlton Sickles and a moderate whose name I can't remember. (I was living in Maryland at the time.) I wish I could call up polling data on the civil rights acts, but I can't, yet I am quite sure that significant majorities approved them. WE had fought a great war against bigotry twenty years before. That made a huge difference.David Kaiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-12560676837621083152008-02-04T10:15:00.000-05:002008-02-04T10:15:00.000-05:00Pat is right. Back in the early Sixties, bigotry ...Pat is right. Back in the early Sixties, bigotry was widespread. In 1966, the Maryland Democratic party nominated a Wallace Democrat for the race for Governor, causing the liberals to vote Republican (that is how Spiro Agnew got his start). And of course, as late as 1972, Wallace was winning primaries in places like Michigan.<BR/><BR/>In all due respect, your father, Robert Kaiser, and other white GIs who pushed through Civil Rights were ahead of their time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-5958361375130966862008-02-04T09:25:00.000-05:002008-02-04T09:25:00.000-05:00Excellent PostExcellent PostAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-13049632527531441382008-02-04T08:16:00.000-05:002008-02-04T08:16:00.000-05:00Re: Hillary's father and MLK Senior - when "All in...Re: Hillary's father and MLK Senior - when "All in the Family" was first aired, people of all races, classes, and backgrounds were saying "Archie is just like my father!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com