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To: Road Walker who wrote (386435)	5/26/2008 1:51:28 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1575631

...Times columnist David Brooks told me. “McCain, crucially, missed the sixties, and in some ways he’s a pre-sixties figure. He and Obama don’t resonate with the sixties at all.” Actually, McCain was more present in the 60s than the rest of us. His reality was THE reality; ours was youthful indiscretion. Where Brooks is wrong is that most of us, today, understand the mistakes of the 60s. Yes, there are some, the William Ayres' of the world, who still don't get it. But just about everyone I knew who lived through the 60s has a different attitude today. Now, there are Yellow Dogs who will always vote for the most liberal guy in the race -- and I'm not considering those, because we know they constitute that 1/3 just like there are Republicans who are always going to vote for the conservative. But the others -- those who didn't have that party bias -- most of these people grew up to understand that all wars aren't Vietnam. The Iraq war is nothing like the Vietnam war, and only the totally ignorant would make such a comparison. Most of us who opposed the Vietnam war understand that it is 40 years later and the 60s were a different time and place.

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