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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (5753)	1/10/2008 2:58:28 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

John, I just got my MA from the U of Chicago and regretted moving out of my apartment and back to NY end of may 68. I missed all the fun. Are you from chicago? I spent two years dodging chicago police while in chicago. NYC cops could get rough at times but there was a huge difference between them and the swaggering chicago cops with their gestapo like menatality (even on a traffic stop). Anyway Bobby died in 68. Liberal mantle fell back to reactionary knee jerk new dealers and then failed. By 1980 i was a reagan democrat. Now the republicans are deconstucting in much the same ways as the dems did after RFK was killed and Obama is the one offering a progressive vision that might just include some of us mainstreamers. I am still registered as a democrat and look forward to the NJ primary. Mike PS i am putting in some of the personal stuff so folks here get some feeling for what we went thru and why we wind up in thie place at this time. This thread is fun because even the guys who might excoriate me for my conservative side have to be nice because they want my vote. And thats cool and thats the way it should be--Big tents and an occasional landslide election leading to change for the good.

To: Road Walker who wrote (5753)	1/10/2008 3:16:53 PM
From: ksuave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Good for you John. I was 20 in the summer of 68, and I was watching the democratic convention in the student union building at the Univ of Texas when the rioting began. We threw a little mini-riot of own, as I recall.

To: Road Walker who wrote (5753)	1/10/2008 4:24:34 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

In the summer of 1968 I watched the police action from the roof of the Field Museum where the National Guard had set up their headquarters. I was 19 at the time, a long haired student at UIC (Harvard on Halsted), working at a summer job at the museum. The opening event, as seen from my vantage point, was a line of protesters charging a police line in Grant Park. I have a vivid memory of hearing the National Guard commander looking at the scene and saying, "Holy Shit!" Donald Rumsfeld, who was staying at the Hilton, was on the phone reporting on the protests to Richard Nixon when the riot started and got gassed when the tear gas wafted up to his room. Working my way home that night on the CTA was a bit of challenge. Interesting times. Earlier that year, I almost (and I mean almost) got caught on the west side when it went up in flames after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. The long departed (at least from SI) Raymond Duray was a student at Loyola that spring. He once told me that one of his greatest regrets was missing the Democratic convention. I told him that it would have made for an interesting trivia question: Which SI member watched which SI member being beaten by the Chicago police?