[Poincare]

I’m no Will fan, but this piece is worth reading and rumination upon.

[VerySadAmerican]

What are kids being taught about this in school these days? That Oswald started the Tea Party, was a racist and hated gays?

[DustyMoment]

The irony is delicious. The leftists have veered so far left since JFK that, by today’s standards, Kennedy would be a Republican!!

And, most Dems don’t like to talk about JFK anymore BECAUSE he would be a Republican by today’s standards!!

This is how far left the dems have dragged us and how far left the ‘Pubbies have allowed themselves to BE dragged so they will still be invited to the posh Georgetown parties!!

[detective]

“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.” — Jacqueline Kennedy

The MSM and Democrat Party have created a mythical John Kennedy. He was not only portrayed as far more capable than he actually was but he has also been portrayed as a champion of Civil Rights and all liberal causes. JFK is also portrayed as being like Abraham Lincoln when in fact they were very different.

Lee Harvey Oswald is portrayed as everything from a lone nut to a CIA agent to a right wing conspirator.

In fact, Oswald was a Communist and JFK was the last anti-Communist Democrat. The Kennedys distrusted Martin Luther King and his Communist connections.

JFK's greatest damage to the country was he let a group of leftist elitists(the self described “Best and the Brightest”) get control of the government, the MSM and the universities. The result has been one disaster after another.

A good description of these events is the Chapter “America's Suicide Attempt” in Modern Times by historian Paul Johnson.

[gattaca]

I heard Rush talking about this last week. Interesting.

[Sherman Logan]

Woody Allen and JFK. Back when he was funny.

http://dvp-potpourri.blogspot.com/2011/07/woody-allen-on-jfk-assassination.html

[SC_Pete]

George used to be a genuine, insightful conservative intellectual. He’s not worth my time now. Unfortunately, he’s attended too many Inside the Beltway cocktail parties in the last 30 years.

[Sirius Lee]

Kennedy’s posthumous reputation — Americans often place him, absurdly, atop the presidential rankings — reflects regrets about might-have-beens. To reread Robert Frost’s banal poem written for Kennedy’s inauguration (“A golden age of poetry and power of which this noonday’s the beginning hour”) is to wince at its clunky attempt to conjure an Augustan age from the melding of politics and celebrity that the Kennedys used to pioneer the presidency-as-entertainment.

I'm not a big fan of Will but it was a good article. Praise when it's deserved.

[Oratam]

bump for late November

[Ditto]

Good read.

I'd add to this thesis that in the post-Vietnam period, conventional 'Liberals' were chased out of the Democrat party and replaced by hard line Leftists --- people far closer the Lee Harvey Oswald's political ideology than JFKs ideology.