THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Bloodwake on October 23, 2008, 11:50:48 AM
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Gotta love college, this will make two Democratic Presidential nominees that I have been less than thirty feet away from in the past month (I saw Barack Obama about two weeks ago in Cincinnati)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_mcgovern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_mcgovern)
What sucks is that he lost in a landslide election to fucking Nixon, which basically lead into all of that Watergate bullshit. But yeah, he was RIGHT OUTSIDE.
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wow he's old
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Yep, he was really old, and that picture definitely doesn't look a lot like him now.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/ElectoralCollege1972.svg/800px-ElectoralCollege1972.svg.png)
Was the other guy you saw Mondale? :lol
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Was the other guy you saw Mondale? :lol
this will make two Democratic Presidential nominees that I have been less than thirty feet away from in the past month (I saw Barack Obama about two weeks ago in Cincinnati)
Reading comprehension.
McGovern ended up speaking at convo. He's definitely old as fuck. I know people give McCain shit for not lifting his arms or whatever, but McGovern looked like he was in bad shape. Honestly, he lost to Nixon, which is funny because Nixon basically proved the public was a big bunch of idiots when the Watergate scandal started to brew good and hard.
All he really did was talk about life experiences and how Bush has fucked our economy good by going to war with Iraq for no reason while cutting taxes for the higher tax brackets. Then he clearly compared Vietnam to Iraq, saying that people "should've studied history closer" (BTW, McGovern was anti-Vietnam, and not just recently.) Then he explained why Powell endorsed Obama, saying that even Powell was fucking fed up with the Republicans and their bullshit and that McCain would just be more of the same. He eventually got around to saying he was for Obama too, to tremendous applause from my liberal arts school.
Funniest part of hearing him speak: He mentioned McCain briefly in passing and some people in the rafters cheered for McCain. McGovern says "I guess there are some McCain supporters here too, we'll be praying for you in two weeks." McCain supporters got owned by fucking George McGovern. Awesome.
This was especially great because the conservatives have all but taken over our campus newspaper (our editor-in-chief is black and he basically wrote an article entitled "It's Okay To Be Racist Sometimes"- I'm not kidding) and they had been bitching that the college was too liberal. McGovern speaking was like a big fuck you to them.