Some experimented. Many took to it, and many who did, turned to Jesus and went to church.

The unrecognized truth about “60’s liberalism” is that we turned against it, rejected it, never forgave it, and have blamed and hated it ever since. There are a lot of reasons why this happened. One of them is that, even in the 60’s, most boomers were conservative like the country. The cultural war against the 60’s was already being waged by anti-black hardhats and Southern enlisted boys.

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Don’t worry, though: they just left out invertebrates because they were trying to exclude politicians.

The students debated whether to demonstrate on the company’s property with a marching band, but the conversation soon digressed into the risk of using e-mail. Some worried that the authorities would read what they wrote.

They don’t have a plan, but at least they’ve got paranoia.

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For your average leftist, what about today is so different? You’ve got Bush, Halliburton, Iraq, nuclear threat, terrorist’s threats, greedy corporate America, rich guys, poor guys, criminals and victims. There is everything now that was then even though the names and details have changed. For you, the same struggle continues. I’m sure there are more than a few on your side who still find the goals of the SDS as admirable now as they did then.

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Well, I have no idea what change she has made. She had no position of power to make change until she became a Senator. Her try at health care reform while Wee Willy was president was a complete fiasco. She hasn’t managed to get any new laws passed as a sponsor since being elected and she certainly wasn’t able to change her husbands sexual predator nature either.

Why no one called her a change liar to her face in the debate I will never know but Obama lost a good chance to put her away for good.

The SDS was and will be if it is revived nothing more than another left wing terrorist organization but it doesn’t surprise me that some of the more left wingers here thought that they had fine world changing for the better manifiesto either.

Where I went to college they burned down the building that was home to music education, housed the marching band’s instruments and their uniforms. Possibly they were upset that the music that was being taught or played by the marching band was just too much of something they didn’t like

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I think Obama is one of the smartest people in public life. I think his rhetoric is stirring and that’s important. He brings out the best in people. He, like Reagan and Kennedy, has the ability to inspire.

And yes, I would like to elect the first Black president, but no more so than I would like to elect the first woman president. I support Obama because he will put a different face, literally and figuratively, on American politics and on America’s foreign policy. I support Obama because I believe electing someone like him is the best way to demonstrate to the world and to ourselves that our 400 year experiment in Democracy is still relevant and still worth defending. I support him because I think America is ready to live up to the ideas of our founding documents–that all men are created equal–and America really is a place where a guy with a background like Obama’s (not just his race) can grow up to be president.

It’s the epitome of my politics and values to elect Barak Obama. It’s not about race or guilt or anything like that. Obama has found a way to transcend those issues.

At the end of the day, voters don’t really vote substance. They vote on feelings and inspiration. That was the key to Ronald Reagan’s success. It was why John Kerry lost. Most Americans according to polls agreed more with John Kerry on more issues than they did Bush. Same with Gore. But they couldn’t stomach Kerry and Gore as people. Obama touches a very different nerve and inspires people on all sides of the political spectrum.

My mother, no liberal, called me up last night at 11:00 gushing. “Did you see Obama’s speech?” she asked me. “It was WONDERFUL.” Some people in public life have a gift and Obama has it, and I trust he will use it to unite this country behind the challenges we face.

Yes, I am putting form over substance, but I really think that’s how people think. And on substance, I there is much to like about Obama and much that is already revealed if you take the time to really listen to his speeches over the past few years. There’s also a lot of achievement in his record as an Illinois legislator. I agree with him on the war. I agree generally with his approach to foreign policy. On other issues of importance to me Obama is not a lot different than Clinton or Edwards, which is fine with me. I understand that may not work for you. But if you agreed with the basic Democratic platform and had these three candidates (Clinton, Obama, and Edwards) to choose from, why wouldn’t you pick Obama?

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Initially, I thought the title of this thread indicated that this was yet another look at Hillary Clinton’s NH comeback…

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