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To: i-node who wrote (386498)	5/27/2008 9:29:35 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575612

Actually, McCain was more present in the 60s than the rest of us. His reality was THE reality; ours was youthful indiscretion. Not when you are talking US politics; our perspective was the political reality. Where Brooks is wrong is that most of us, today, understand the mistakes of the 60s. There WERE some mistakes and also some very good things. 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. You got the 1/3's about right, with 1/3 calling themselves 'independent'. But if you look at the registrations and polls, you will find those folks moving to the Dems at about 2 to 1. As to the war, you are right that it's different in many ways from Vietnam. One key is that an achievable mission is EVEN LESS defined. It's pretty much the opposite of the Powell Doctrine, which was probably the only good thing to come out of the Vietnam war.