Letters to the Editor
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Tnx. john40...
"Battles of the 60s
...The one thing that everyone in that (my parents) generation has in common is a big, fat sense of entitlement, that everybody else (the old people in the 60s, us younger people now) better shut and get the hell out of the way, because we don't (know) what we're talking about..."
-- john40"
This is PRECISELY why I'm not voting for Clinton. Thanks for articulating that for me so clearly.
This article was very touching...in a Peggy-Sue-Got-Married sort of way, and I'm sure you folks over 50 are just SWOONING about those good ole' days in the 1968s, when marching the streets against (insert controversial topic) meant something...
But those days are long gone. And while this article was interesting for it's quickie look at how Hillary left the dark side of The Force, it still has NO MEANING to the primary race that we are seeing happen before us. And the Hillary of today is certain not the Hillary of 1968 (or even 1998 for that matter, since the Clintons have become multi-millionaires after leaving office...again, goes back to that sense of entitlement).
Although I would agree that the last paragraph marred this otherwise non-partisan piece...I think the painting of that ironic political turnaround after 40 years is true nevertheless...if the author wanted to make this case about Hillary's jading in color from idealistic youth to well-to-do political Baby boomer, he should have made this a 2 part article. Shame he just narrowed it down to 1 badly placed paragraph...but I get his drift.