Very cool photograph.
Posted on 11/19/2010 5:04:41 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Jack Kennedy won the presidency with the help of large amounts of cash – and a liberal number of lies, says Andrew Marr.
Get the picture right, and your history will take care of itself. Jack Kennedy always got the picture right. Even now, it is hardly possible to glimpse the gleaming white smile, the sunlit hair and the perfect First Family without a lump in the throat.
JFK became the icon of democratic optimism, the man who inspired half the world. Cut down in his prime, he never grew old enough to betray, disillusion or bore his legion of admirers. Who is President Josiah Bartlett of The West Wing but the liberal fantasy of a mature Kennedy – pin-sharp, hard as nails and bright with idealism?
So it comes as a shock to study Kennedy, the campaigner, properly, as I have been doing for a television documentary. The story of how a rich, preppy, party boy from Massachusetts managed to raise a roar for underdog America loud enough to carry him to the White House is gripping. But uplifting it certainly isn’t. Yes, it’s a tale of soaring and risk-taking rhetoric, partly fashioned by the late lamented Ted Sorensen, and of a candidate with remarkable energy. It is also, however, a tale of big money, smears, bribes, wire-pulling and bottomless cynicism. If you are asking what has gone so wrong with modern politics, Kennedy’s 1960 election campaign is a good place to start.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
My dad sat me down before that election and filled me in on the Kennedy Family.
Old news maybe but give me a break...3 days before the anniversary of his death they publish a hatchet job...
And pretty soon, we’ll have no Kennedys in office for the first time in 46 years.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2629737/posts
“And pretty soon, we’ll have no Kennedys in office for the first time in 46 years.”
That’s right. Schwarzenegger is leaving office in January.
We mustn't tarnish Camelot by mentioning anything that might be true.
Except that Camelot was a lie.
We’ll probably never know half of the dirt with what was involved with Hussein becoming president. Has anyone EVER seen a politician be so able to cover up their past from scrutiny like his people did? It’s remarkable. We could only imagine what filth was involved during his elections. He beat the Clintons for God’s sake!
Kennedy’s election will look as pure as fallen snow compared that of 0bama.
Amen.
JFK didn’t have a lump in his throat, that was a bullet! Gakkkkk.
Very cool photograph.
I felt that way about him back then.
What hatchet job?
Even PBS covered the seamy side of the Kennedys in an episode of “The American Experience.”
You can read the transcript and view the entire video online:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1125268583/
From the transcript: “In the end, it all came down to Lyndon Johnson’s Texas and Mayor Daly’s Chicago, where crime boss Sam Giancana controlled key wards. Together, they helped put Kennedy over the top. It was the narrowest win of the century, a margin of one-tenth of one percent.”
Wow, you had to be 21 to vote in that election, so you are at least my age. :)
Actually it's worse than that. The correct number is 64 years, not 46 years.
bttt
Yep 22 and dumb as far as politics just like too many 22 year olds today
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