Eugene McCarthy, RIP

Eugene McCarthy passed away today at age 89. I remember vividly when he challenged LBJ for the presidency in 1968. I guess you could even say I was one of the "clean-for-Gene" kids, though I was a bit older than most. I attended one of his rallies in the Washington, D.C. area.

I guess it is partly because of those days and the Vietnam war that I am so strongly against this war. Been there, done that.

As McCarthy said about Vietnam, "as it went on, you could tell the people running it didn't know what was going on." You could certainly say the same thing today about Iraq.

May he rest in peace.