PrintSeptember 30, 2009
The Patron in Chief's Copenhagen Surge
Europe leans right. The U.S. leans left. Afghanistan hangs in the balance. And Obama goes to Copenhagen. What's up with that?Patronage is what's up. And world class patronage at that. The mayor's son learned the lesson of the father. In late August 1968, Chicago's Grant Park was a bivouac area for the Illinois National Guard. Green trucks, green tents, green fatigues everywhere, along with the debris of a brawl between Vietnam War protestors and the Chicago Police Department. It happened as Hubert "the Happy Warrior" Humphrey, LBJ's vice president, was cruising to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Senator Eugene McCarthy, the peace candidate, would come in second. Senator George McGovern, third. As the riot boiled outside the convention center, protestors threw human feces at the cops and the police busted heads with night sticks. Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff,...(Read Full Article)
