Yes, he was fine on civil rights, but he was from Minnesota. It’s not as dangerous as being from, say, Texas.

Humphrey though should have pushed harder about the War and basically challenged Lyndon to adapt to the compromise peace plank agreed to by HHH and the Kennedy and McCarthy factions, though for sure that might have put his nom at risk. Instead, he caved in as Lyndon ramrodded through the more hawkish plank. Not challenging Lyndon at the convention was a big mistake, and the nomination he got, with all the hawkishness it brought with it and the bad relations with the liberal wing, was a serious handicap going into the fall. HHH also angered the antiwar wing of the party when he publicly embraced Dick Daley’s police thugs. A wimpy and stupid response.

In the end, Humphrey, though he’d been strong on CR years earlier, just didn’t have the internal fortitude to stand up and draw a line in the sand when it mattered.

If the Peace Talks had succeeded, either LBJ or HHH would have run for and won a second term, the Great Society would have been consolidated instead of attacked, and we’d be a lot better off.

Remember, this was the decade of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Fidel was PISSED that Nikita didn’t respond with nukes against DC. It was easy for most people to expect the worst of Ho Chi Minh’s crew, not realizing that they were angels compared to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge (with whom Kissinger happily worked).

This is the most stupid and desperate angle of attack yet.

I am a Chicano from the Sonoran Desert, as well as a Vietnam War Vet. Thus, I ascribe to Humility since that is the fundamental principle and guide for my membership in the slow-walk “maturation for moderation” Club.

Long story short, after my discharge from the military, I attended college. My older brother, a Navy vet, was busy acquiring his graduate degree at Antioch, Ohio, and if you know anything about Antioch, it was the ‘platform’ for what is now embedded into our institutions for higher learning and in particular, classes in “community service”. Thus, I took a class in “community service” and which led to my better integration and engagement into the world around me. Thusly, I became part of the leadership cabal that over a span of years, ‘reconstituted’ the Maricopa County Community College Distric here in Arizona, and the second largest educational systemic in America.

And having grown up as a migrant worker and familiar with Cesar Chavez, the United Farmworkers and Saul Alinsky’s guiding principles for community organizing, thusly, my ‘connection’ of experiences amply helped me develop my “expertise” for Survival and Success, and which continues to this day.

Today, I can look back fondly at America’s world of 35 years ago, and know that I have helped over the intervening years, hundreds of thousands of my fellow citizens in many ways, both for the subtle and the nuance. Thus, I was an intergral part of a cabal known famously as the Tyranny of the Dull that out-competed and out-hustled another cabal of the Tyranny of the Dull or the Status Quo to achieve this Success for Shaping Our Future Together.

Consequently, change is generically unwelcomed by the many, and yet, America has changed for the better, and folks like Hubert Humphrey is to be accorded the appropriate Kudos for his self-enlightenment. In short, he and many of the like-minded for Humility, helped my achieve my Humility.

And it doesn’t get any better than that! And thinking otherwise is for amateurs.

Jaango

xin loi

Haven’t heard that in a long time. Right on.