Look For A Return To Woodstock In The Next Couple Of Years

Thanks to Pelosi and especially if Hilary gets elected.....

Where's Waldo?? Better yet, can you spot Mom & Dad?

The Hippies' Last Hurrah
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Published 4/5/2007 12:08:32 AM

WASHINGTON -- What is it in the air this spring that is so familiar? There is a war abroad, and the bien pensants are agitating feverishly for a pullout. There is a Republican in the White House, reviled by the bien pensants and under heavy siege. Former aides to the president are going over to the other side, as an energetic Democratic majority on Capitol Hill ferrets out scandals even where there is only faux pas. Demonstrations against the war are under way, and there is talk of impeachment from the agitated idealists on the left.

To those of us familiar with the 1960s generation, this is the late 1960s and early 1970s all over again. In fact, many of the same dramatis personae who howled against the war and the embattled White House in the late 1960s are leading the pack again today. They are forty years older, wider in the midsection and grayer if not glabrous -- but they are as indignant as they were back in the good old days when they were wearing bell-bottomed pants, abstaining from deodorant, and dreaming of the perfect commune -- perhaps one with a genuine Indian mystic seated in his underpants.

Ah, yes, the Yippies' Jerry Rubin is no longer with them. He perished after jaywalking across Wilshire Boulevard after becoming an "entrepreneur." And the Yippies' other co-founder, Abbie Hoffman, also has had his obituary filed. After years on the lam for a drug trafficking charge (entrepreneurship fetched him too), he committed suicide in 1989. Yet other young idealists from the Summer of Love and the campus demonstrations are among the leading personages of the "Spring of 2007." The Clintons, Dr. Howard Dean, al-Gore, and Jean-Francois Kerry, all played their roles in the late 1960s agitations, and here they are today.

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