Reply #45: Robert Kennedy supported his brother's vietnam policy. [View All]

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When he ran for president, he barely criticized Vietnam. Instead, he talked about poverty, opportunity, race and class.

A lot of students supported McCarthy instead because he was building his identity around being anti-war. McCarthy lost.

RFK almost certainly would have won in '68, and he probably would have won because he would have made Americans put issues in the right priority, and at the top of that list would have been issues on which voters felt Democrats were much better: opportunity and poverty.

Instead, we ran a candidate who told voters that Republicans were right and that war was the most important issue.

Any of this sound familiar?

If you think Edwards would have gotten us into more wars, you really weren't listening to what he was saying about himself.