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The Last Best Liberal: George McGovern's Second Wind

By AAN Staff
february 26, 2003  08:02 pm
The Last Best Liberal: George McGovern's Second Wind
The thickest plank of McGovern’s 1972 platform, the one that carried the weight, was anti-war. George McGovern was the first member of the U.S. Senate to explicitly denounce U.S. policy in Indochina, and it’s safe to assume that were he still in the Senate, he would have been the first to denounce the Bush administration’s plans in Iraq. But as it stands, McGovern is no longer an elected official, and his opposition, and whatever influence it may have, comes now from the mouth of an elder statesman, a World War II hero, the collective imagination’s anti-Nixon transported into this anxious echo of belligerent Nixonian daydreams. George McGovern isn’t running for anything. He can say anything he wants. And here he is, riding a second wind in Stevensville, Mont., saying to Brad Tyer, editor of Missoula Independent, pretty much the same things he said 30 years ago: Stop hitting. Feed the hungry.  
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