RIP George McGovern

My 1st losing Presidential vote until Al Gore and I will admit that after the election I went on to ignore Mr. McGovern because he was irrelevant to anything I cared about.  And he ran a terrible campaign with the Eagleton mess.

However, as reader of history, I discovered over time what a hero and brave soul he was during WWII flying the maximum number of bomber missions over Germany.

And he was a politician who believed in family values having been married to the same woman for ever and not desiring to be in the limelight for any purposes of self satisfaction.  In his obituary I found the following quotes from him in 2011 on the importance of this election to the country and what the Democrats stand for.

“We are the party that believes we can’t let the strong kick aside the weak,” Mr. McGovern wrote. “Our party believes that poor children should be as well educated as those from wealthy families. We believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes and that everyone should have access to health care.”

With the country burdened economically, he added, there has “never been a more critical time in our nation’s history” to rely on those principles.

“We are at a crossroads,” he wrote, “over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.”