Lets face it, many of us in the past six years have thought about it.
As we watch a war that the Islamic world feels is aimed directly at them, the idea above has passed through our minds. As we witness the international community splinter, finding American foreign policy to blame for the world condition, we have thought about the slogan above. We think those thoughts because we yearn for a President with mature and reasonable foreign policy credentials.
Tonight two friends gave me the bumper sticker as they know of my fascination with the life and times of Richard Nixon. Though I do not place stickers on my car the slogan made me think back to the 2005 visit by George McGovern at the UW-Madison campus. McGovern was the 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee that had heart and principle, but not enough votes.
I went back into my writings tonight and found what I had penned about his speech to that huge university crowd. I think it worth mentioning here.
“Perhaps the statement that caught the audience by surprise was when McGovern firmly said, ” I wish he (Nixon) were still in the White House, than what is there today.” I was amused that there was applause as a result, and then McGovern added with that famous little smile that shows there is a gift of a good story tinged with humor waiting inside the old man, “I can say that honestly since Nixon is safely on the other side of the great divide.”
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