Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, And the Jeffersonian Legacy
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MyDD (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Over at The Atlantic, Matt Cooper asks, "Best veep picks of the post World War II era?", answering his own question with the names Al Gore, George H.W. Bush, Estes Kefauver, Hubert Humphrey. I'd like to throw in one more: Alben Barkley. Barkley had been in the Congress for close to 36 years when Harry Truman selected him as his running mate in 1948, including serving nearly...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... veep picks of the post World War II era? I'd throw in Al Gore, George H.W. Bush, Estes Kefauver, Hubert Humphrey. But willing to accept all suggestions for best and worst...
A Conservative Teacher (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Roosevelt wins over Republican Herbert Hoover), 1968 (Republican Richard Nixon beats Democrat Hubert Humphrey), and 1980 (Republican Ronald Reagan beats Democrat Jimmy Carter). In each election, patterns in politics were broken and new patterns were put in place that lasted many years and large blocs of voters moved from one party to another. Based on the 30-40 years estimate, the...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... the new democratic party, which is 5 standard deviations to the left of leadership of people like Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, and makes no distinction between equal outcome as a govt mandate domestically and in foreign affairs. Mr. Buchanan, is in my opinion, a bigot and nothing can more reinforce the emotional stupidities and blindness of THAT left then the belief that to...
baithak (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... And yet Biden is also, like Obama, an optimist. As vice presidents go, he has more in common with Hubert Humphrey, the happy warrior, than with dark Dick Cheney. He may well, as Tom Lehrer once sang of Humphrey, dream of staging a coup; but he is likely to remain happy as long as he has apple carts to overturn. Bridging a gap for India and Pakistan - To avoid a regional debacle...
