By: Greg Mitchell It's a vivid TV commercial promoting an Illinois leader against a famous military figure running to president. No, it's not a new Obama ad. Rather it's from back-in-the-day (1952), and hailed Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois over Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- on the grounds that the Democrat was NOT a military man (you won't find anyone highlighting that line these days).
It goes so far as call Stevenson "Civilianson," and like now, we were then trying to wind up a war, in Korea. Of course, as we all know, the Man from Illinois with no military experience was trounced in November. Here's how the song ends:
From Illinois, whence Lincoln came/His leadership has won the same
A soldier man is always found/To think in terms of battlegrounds
But Stevenson--Civilianson-- Will lead us till the peace is won.
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