Author: BooMan

I was born in 1969. I don’t remember the 1972 race, but I do remember my older brother’s faded McGovern-Shriver t-shirt that he proudly wore until it fell apart. When I was in the second grade I cast my first vote...

No one thinks that Hillary Clinton will win the primary in Mississippi today, but there are optimistic and pessimistic projections. The optimistic projection is that Obama will win 3 of the 4 congressional districts and pull a...

Rep. Neil Abercrombie is a wise-ass. What’s the word?

Stephen Colbert had George McGovern on tonight as his guest. I guess McGovern’s 1972 campaign is the new topic for discussion. A whole generation of Democrats were traumatized by that election and it has caused them to act...

Jim Slattery was a Democratic U.S. Congressman that represented Kansas from 1983-1995. He was a victim of the Gingrich Revolution who was best known for his work on “environmental protection, health care,...