Obama Channels McGovern In More Ways Than One

Recently, I wrote about how similar Obama’s supporters are to those of George McGovern–channeling the nastiest of their offensive characteristics and philosophies. In McGovern’s case, it led to one of the biggest bashings in a General Election in history, save for Mike Dukakis. But I will save Dukakis for another day.

There have been many discussions of the astounding similarities between McGovern and Obama as fringe candidates who offended the senses of the majority of America, who by and large are not as loud as The Fringe — but who instead tend to register their disdain at the polls.

While channeling George McGovern, we would certainly hope that Obama is a bit more careful than George was in his selection of Vice Presidential partners, given the problem with Mr. Eagleton and his undisclosed foray into the world of Electro-Shock therapy. I do suppose that given recently uncovered Countrywide loan events, this would as a minimum rule out the loyal Senator Dodd, although there doesn’t appear to be a mental history. Just a history of pocketing about $80,000 in interest savings, while registering appropriate outrage on-cue and as he asked suffering American taxpayers to bail out the same subprime lender who gave him his “VIP” deal.

As I think about it, there are several other similarities between the McGovern campaign and the Obama Campaign besides ill-behaved and rude, threatening followers. Music seems to play a big role in the Obama campaign. More correctly, Rap has a big role, as so many of us do not regard Rap as music. Many of us are not even sure what to call it. We do know that its the medium to refer to when you want to learn as many ways as possible to kill people and beat the crap out of women. However, Obama worshippers find Rap to be appropriate to their candidate. The rest of us do too.

We have seen plenty of Youtubers use Rap to worship Obama in faux-song, and even the classless, crude and crass Obama himself has paid homage to one famed rapper on video, while giving Hillary Clinton the finger and brushing Whatever from his shoulders.

However, the use of music was also an integral part of the McGovern campaign, with one exception: George McGovern had far too much class and was far too much of an actual adult to do what Obama did on camera. Still, while today we have the Yes We Can song, created just for Obama, The Man Himself, in 1972 there was The McGovern Song, also written just for McGovern, The Man Himself. Unfortunately, I couldn’t locate the lyrics, but for $50 you can get your own copy of the The McGovern Song in it’s own special sleeve here. So we see yet another similarity between the two campaigns.

While bad behavior, incessant chanting and rallies, and music are definitely similarities between the two campaigns, I never realized exactly how much Obama has channeled the doomed McGovern campaign, till I was reminded of George McGovern’s campaign logo.

Here is the now famous, and hopefully soon to be infamous, Barack Obama “sun” logo (pre-”Presidential Seal”, of course)

Now let’s have a look at George McGovern’s”sun” logo:

Amazing, isn’t it? Or is Eerie a more appropriate word?

Barack Obama: May you channel George McGovern all the way to November 4.