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H0mer0's avatar

how do you know us so well from there? It's like we're so predictable to the educated and intelligent eye.

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Kennedy ran on ending the war asap. It was the centerpiece of his campaign. If he had taken office in January 1969, he could have literally canceled the secret bombing of Cambodia before it started. The Paris peace talks started in 1967; Bobby would have made them real peace talks instead of Nixon's phony theater, stalling and nattering about "peace with honor" while he bombed Hanoi.

All we needed was for the president to say, "There's nothing that benefits the US in this war. Let them go commie; we don't care." The Tet Offensive would have helped with that. I doubt it would have taken more than a year.

Humphrey would have made a decent president - certainly better than what we got. But the reason he didn't get the support to beat Nixon was that he refused to take a stand on Vietnam. Young voters switched to McCarthy, who had no chance, and split the vote. Bobby was the candidate who had the broad support to win.

Remember too, that in 1968 Bobby was seen as a crusader for civil rights, whereas Humphrey, again, was not trusted by Black voters to stand firm. Whatever we now know to the Kennedy brothers' detriment was not part of the presidential campaign in 1968.

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