Posted on 03/22/2017 6:27:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
So much for presuming Dems were different in JFK’s era. Reagan saying “[u]nder the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx” was not a vain observation.
The dems WERE indeed different in the JFK era compared to the extremists that permeate the party now. Is anyone suggesting otherwise?
I always love when the libs swoon over jfk’s Camelot and in real life, he had 40 STD’s and was homelier than Carrot Top
My dad was in the Navy during World War II. He was not released from active duty until after Japan had surrendered. My dad was not a Kennedy.
Horn dog JFK! I read once where one of JFK’s advisors was once quoted as saying: “JFK would have stuck his dick in a cement mixer if he thought it would get him off”. Yeah, 40 is probably close!
Something smells fishy here. 1945? Germany was pretty much in ruins. And did not JFK get his PT boat sunk (due to his normal Kennedy incompetence) in the Pacific somewhere around that time?
Ergo me thinketh not that JFK was in German in ‘45. Could be wrong.
JFK “fresh-faced”?
Who are they kidding
“[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.” …OK. How were they different compared to the extremists that permeate the party now? They look exactly the same to me. Including people like Dean Acheson, author of A Democrat Looks at His Party who was cited in The Conscience of a Conservative as being one of Goldwater’s contemporaries in terms of being a champion of totalitarianism.
— Woodrow Wilson, Socialism and Democracy, 1887
So this isn’t really JFK’s diary?
Not saying it’s not a possibility, but how likely?
when I was a little kid, my mom would say she wanted to dance and piss on Teddy Kennedy’s grave. She’s never got around to doing that but I still love my mom
“Something smells fishy here. 1945? Germany was pretty much in ruins. And did not JFK get his PT boat sunk (due to his normal Kennedy incompetence) in the Pacific somewhere around that time? Ergo me thinketh not that JFK was in German in ‘45. Could be wrong.”
You ‘could be wrong’.
His father was even worse. He was all in favor of appeasing Hitler and did not want to fight with Britain. He finally had to be sent home from his ambassadorship.
Yep, you could be wrong.
He looks about 13 here
In August 1943, as the sailors were sleeping without posting a watch (in violation of naval regulations), his boat, PT 109, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Towing a badly burned crewmate by a life-jacket strap clenched in his teeth, Kennedy led the crew's ten survivors on a three-mile swim to refuge on a tiny island. The crew hid on the island from the enemy for days until Kennedy managed to summon help. Widely credited with the rescue of his crew, Kennedy received the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medal for Valor, and a Purple Heart for injuries he sustained. Nevertheless, he returned home to a naval inquiry on the sinking. Although a board found evidence of poor seamanship, the Navy needed heroes more than it needed scapegoats, and Kennedy was cast as the former to build public morale, and recruited to go on speaking tours.
After being discharged from the Navy, John Kennedy worked briefly as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, and in 1946, the twenty-nine-year-old Kennedy won election to the U.S. Congress representing a working-class Boston district. He served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning a reputation as a somewhat conservative Democrat. He was re-elected in 1948 and again in 1950. In 1952, he ran for the U.S. Senate and defeated the Republican incumbent from another Massachusetts family with a long political history, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
JFK briefly worked as a reporter for the Hearst Press in 1945, after leaving the Navy on medical discharge. His father had Hearst connections and got him the job. He was in Germany for the Potsdam Conference.
Yeah Papa Kennedy was a Nazi sympathizer as was Wallis Simpson and her reprobate loser Duke hubby, not really sure which one got the short end of that stick,
I had to look it up. It seems daddy managed to grease some palm, and Jack was off to Europe.
Why is it that these democrats always seem to admire the characters of the most evil people going. Note their fondness for enemy islamists. One of them is even vice-chair of their party.
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