Eugene McCarthy - Farewell

Former Senator Eugene McCarthy Dies at 89

Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.
In an interview a month before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, McCarthy compared the Bush administration with the characters in the William Golding novel ''Lord of the Flies,'' in which a group of boys stranded on an island turn to savagery.
''The bullies are running it,'' McCarthy said. ''Bush is bullying everything.''

He was not afraid to go up against the "leaders." He was one voice against the war. We could use his voice today.