I just hate it when the media tries to compare Obama’s wife with Jackie O. I was never particularly fond of Jackie O, but readily acknowledge that she had a quiet, classy and genteel nature about her. To me Laura Bush comes very close to that and Obama’s wife never ever will. She’s loud and obnoxious. I won’t call her First Lady, to me she is just Obama’s wife.
For most of today's Democrats, "Camelot" is the touchstone of their political world. Nevermind that almost everything most people today know about the JFK presidency is pure phony myth created out of thin air by the Kennedy machine. Democrats have hungered for a return to "Camelot" ever since JFK was buried. The Obamas are but the latest in a long series of presumptive heirs and, like all the others, they will crash and burn.
Oh...and what are the ties that connect JFK and Jackie to Mr. & Mrs. Obama? They were/are 40-something Democrats with two young kids. Kennedy was a young-ish senator with little experience compared to the other leading politicians of his day. Period. End of similarity.
The truth about JFK's presidency is that it was among the worst in history. He was president less than three years, yet his record includes the following:
-- Escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.-- Abandonment of the Cuban resistance leading to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
-- In August 1961, JFK sat by and did nothing while the Soviets erected the Berlin Wall. That emboldened the Soviet Primier Nikita Kruschev to take on the U.S. in the ultimate high-stakes chess match.
-- The world was brought to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. Contrary to myth, Kennedy didn't get the Soviets to back down by acting tough with the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba. Kruschev had JFK's number. Kruschev wanted something, and he got it. Using UN Secretary General U Thant as the facilitator, JFK reached an agreement with the Soviets to dismantle the missiles in Cuba in exchange for the then-secret removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey. Only then did the Soviets agree to remove their missiles in Cuba. The Berlin Wall stayed up until November 9, 1989.
-- Kennedy also whored around with everything in a skirt that caught his eye, from Marilyn Monroe to Mafia boss Sam Giancana's girlfriend, who carried messages back and forth between JFK and Giancana.
-- During the Kennedy administration, the CIA recruited Giancana, Miami mob leader, Santo Trafficante Jr., and other Mafia goons to assassinate Fidel Castro. Whether or not the long-time Kennedy involvement with the mob is what got JFK killed is still an open question that will never be answered. But what is absolutely stone cold truth is that the then President of the United States put himself in a position where he could be blackmailed by the mob. JFK and RFK appeared to strike back at the mob by going after many of its leaders. However, by 1975, JFK, RFK and Giancana had all been shot to death.