a walk back in time

[SwampG8r]

let me put on my old rose colored glasses for a while,i stashed them away with some bell bottoms and muslin dueling shirts with puffy sleeves.
i am fresh in from an OP about bobbie kennedy and please,excuse me if i talk like i know him.bobbie was a good guy and i kind of believe when you remember those passed they are with you again, if only for a slim second. bobbie was an important figure in my personal political development even though we parted ways when i was about 14.i realize he aint no saint and his death left us without a deep record of governance ,so anyones idea of what would have happened would only be that...their idea.
remembering bobbie conjurs up so many from that time,some who fizzled out,some who burned out,and some who were snuffed out.i remember those times and i remember those people.

i came here to write about bobbie and how in those days it seemed different and i really miss the quality of of the people on the hill in those days...hell on both sides.
but now bobbies here and he wants to sit on the deck and smoke and look at the stars and i cant leave him out there alone after i made him come over.
thank god it wasnt nixon again he always wants to explain himself like hes some deep puzzle.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Nicely said, my dear SwampG8r...

Very eloquent...

[stevedeshazer]

2. +1, and thanks.

[murielm99]

3. Yeah. Bobbie.

I never really got over that one. Seeing the pictures from that time still makes me cry.

I was twenty when we lost Bobbie. I lost a husband only a few years later. I learned to live with that loss better than I did with the loss of Bobbie. That might sound like a terrible thing to say, but I had to mend my personal life and go on. My political life was another matter entirely.

I don't know if I became more of a cynic, or more of a realist. Maybe it was a bit of both. I worked harder, but I never fell for the charms of a Eugene McCarthy, John Anderson, Ralph Nader, Howard Dean, or even an Obama. Hope and Change? Okay. I am well aware of your record in Illinois. I know you too, John Anderson, and you, McCarthy. I know a few dark horses like Walker, who walked my state, became governor, and went to jail.

My rose colored glasses were broken when Bobbie died. Maybe it made me a better activist. I don't know. But if Bobbie is sitting on the deck now, I will tell him that.

[mysuzuki2]

4. I agree 100%.

I have missed him ever since too. I remember watching the TV stories of his killing while a college student at NIU. An awful time. What would our history have been like if he had lived? Better, I think.