To me it's his AWOL story. Wouldda couldda shouldda and he didn't happen to be in congress at the time, which of course isn't his "fault".

It speaks volumes to his undeserved laurels in that category that he wasn't leading on the national stage on that issue. I mean, it's so often raised as a big reason he's more righteous than Bad Obstacle Lady.

Were he really the second coming of MLK and Gandhi combined, he'd have been THE voice of the anti-war movement. If he'd accomplished a fraction in realtime as what his rhetoric suggests, he'd have been taking on the Patriotic Police so hard, he'd have been a librul household name back when it mattered.

It reminds me so much of Lt. GW F*ckup who swaggered around in a bomber jacket in college, being a 1st class pro-war @ssho!le while other poor b@stards without his connections suffered and died for his bragging.

Another thing that's striking about this smoke and mirrors, all-sizzle, no-steak movement is that they're so much like the post-literate definition of a classic as a book everyone wants to have read.

Not very many of the movementarians seem to care much about where the samples / cribbed phrases of the swaying and the "inspiring" speeches come from, or the hard civil rights battles -- going for a large sexist frappacina if anyone wants to come with -- they seem more in a hurry to have been a part of a movement.

It's like an implanted chip with a scripted photoshopped memory that didn't really happen but replays well.

Yeah, I generalized. :: spit ::