President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Dumped

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67. The landscape isn't remotely the same

I can only assume you weren't around in 1968. Over the previous year the number of troops deployed in Vietnam had continued to escalate, topping 1/2 million. More US soldiers died in Vietnam in 1968 than any other year. By comparison, over the past year, the number of troops in Iraq (and the number of casualties) have been dropping and the forecast is for the number of troops in Afghanistan to be reduced. Total casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan combined over the past year are a mere fraction of the casualties that occurred in 1967-1968 in Vietnam. Plus, the news in 1968 was incessantly about the war, while that is most decidedly not the case today. People don't support the war in Afghanistan, but they don't feel remotely as passionately about it (across the board) as they did about Vietnam in 1968.

Plus, if the landscape is the same as in 1968, why do you think your mythic progressive nominee would become the Democratic candidate and/or win? When LBJ dropped out, McCarthy didn't surge to the nomination and to the White House. And four years later, after a period during which dissatisfaction with the war and mass protests were at a level that makes today's Occupy gatherings look like church picnics, a progressive candidate -- George McGovern -- was obliterated in the election.

That's reality and that's history. What you are living is fantasy.