Shades of '68! Tom Hayden peels off Obama bumper sticker!

Oh. my. gawwwd. The left has spoken, the fight is truly on.

"To be pathetically feeble, I mean to be clear . . ." (none / 0)

To be clear: I'll support Obama down the road against Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs or any of the pitchfork carriers for the pre-Obama era. But no bumper sticker until the withdrawal strategy is fully carried out.

But for now, the fight is on.

So, Tom Hayden's anger contained strictly within whether or not his car will sport an Obama bumper sticker, despite everything there's no question he'll be voting Dem next Presidential election. If that is how circumscribed progressive anger will be at this anti-progressive President (gosh golly I thought Tom might actually consider voting for, or at least supporting in the damn 2012 primaries, a candidate for President that was actually, you know, progressive), surely Obama is LMFAO NOT-shaking-in-his-boots.

Hey Tom, get back to us when yah grow a pair.

Tom, Tom, there was a time when you helped make an antiwar movement. Preemptive loyalty oaths are NOT part of one. Y' know, though Chicago 1968 was Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin's time, you were there too. Remember? But yeah, what a long, strange, downward slide it's been since then. Anyway, here's what real, angry, creative, attention-getting antiwar protest looks like:

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The Yippies present their presidential candidate, Pigasus the Pig.

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Grant Park.

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Jerry Rubin of The Chicago 7 (Abbie Hoffman on the left, Tom Hayden on the right), and Jerry's girlfriend, Nancy Kurshan.

Okay, let's face it, the antiwar movement's not up to the 1968 vets anymore, though. I ask again, college kids, where are you?

All photos from guardian.co.uk.

Tags: Afghanistan, antiwar movement, tom hayden (all tags)

Comments

10 Comments

I was the author

of the Port Huron statement.  The original, not the compromised second draft.

by JJE 2009-12-03 08:18AM | 0 recs
Re: I was the author

Is that you or Jeff Bridges?

by fairleft2 2009-12-03 08:48AM | 0 recs
Re: Shades of '68! Tom Hayden

Could be a Chicago '12 DNC... I tend to believe Charlotte NC will get it, and the GOP opting for Jacksonville FL.

by Jerome Armstrong 2009-12-03 08:55AM | 0 recs
Re: Shades of '68!

They didn't stop the war OR get a President elected OR do much else but create a lasting market for Woodstock memorabilia, of course... but people seem strangely proud of the protests of this era.

A common thread of all your diaries is that actually accomplishing something is always secondary to making the right statement dude.  Who cares if offensive pictures turn people off and harm the anti-war movement... it's just that they can't handle the truth!  Carry on whether we're actually helping to stop the war or not!

by Steve M 2009-12-03 09:21AM | 0 recs
The antiwar protests got us out of Vietnam

Chicago 1968 was the radical aspect of an overall movement that gained decisive strength only two years later, in the 1970 elections. Sometimes the realists and radicals pushing in the same direction is very effective, see King/Malcolm X in the early Sixties. The Vietnam antiwar effort seemed to take forever, but in roughly six years from small beginnings in 1967 the U.S. had authentically committed to getting out of Vietnam.

by fairleft2 2009-12-03 09:52AM | 0 recs
realistic pictures

offend some people and deepen the commitment of others to ending the imperial wars. If you think a single method, the same message with the same visuals, reaches all audiences with maximum effectiveness, you need to take a begining marketing class.

by fairleft2 2009-12-03 09:54AM | 0 recs
Mojoed Your Comment

But with all due respect, you really had to be there.

by Shaun Appleby 2009-12-03 04:34PM | 0 recs
Re: Mojoed Your Comment

I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event...

by Steve M 2009-12-03 05:07PM | 0 recs
Re: Mojoed Your Comment

Yeah.  But watching the Viet Vets Against the War, the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Black Panthers, the Yippies and others parading with a cavalry escort of Hell's Angels, against the backdrop of the Jefferson Monument, in the 'peace park' on the weekend before the '71 May Day protest left a strong image in my impressionable sixteen-year old mind, substances notwithstanding.  The Left has never been quite the same, somehow.  To paraphrase Napoleon, 'a little whiff of teargas' goes a long way to focusing your political allegiences.

by Shaun Appleby 2009-12-03 05:17PM | 0 recs
If you remember it

you weren't really there.

by JJE 2009-12-03 06:20PM | 0 recs

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