Deflating an American dynasty(Kennedys Miniseries)(BARF)

An effete television critic from the B.S. Globe doesn't like the Kennedys miniseries?(which from most accounts that I've heard is pretty good)

Paging Captain Renault....

Rush recommended it = good enough for me!

Dittos. I’m gonna give it a look also just on the Truth Detector’s recommendation.

I heard Rush’s comment and I can’t wait to view this series. I asked respected history professor Gary Gallagher how many years have to pass between an historical event and the time when historians can pass an honest rendering of the event as opposed to the contemporary legend which grew up around the story. His answer was 70 years. We are now at 50 years so the time of truth telling about the Kennedys is fast approaching. When you think about it, the truth about FDR and his policies as compared to Calvin Coolidge and his policies are in the midst of a grand reversal right now, after about 70 years.

70 years! I am trying to recall, but I think I remember hearing that something (a record) would not see the light of day until 75 years after JFK’s assassination. I was in high school at the time I heard this and I quickly calculated that it was unlikely I would be alive to know the content. UGH and SIGH.

The best thing about the Kennedy’s was Jackie’s taste. She had absolute class.

If Jack was alive today his positions would put him in the conservative class in many places.

JFK was the last Democrat to put the American philosophy into his inauguration speech.

The first four paragraphs of his inauguration speech:

We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom — symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning — signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans — born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Boston.com's Matthew Gilbert

Dear Boston Globe: I hear this mini series is very good. I will watch.

Jack Kennedy was no genius. For example:

WWII, PT109 is out of fuel drifting towards a hostile shore in a lagoon full of nips with mortars and MG's ready to fire on the hapless boat as soon as the tide brings them within range. So what does our genius future president do? Well nothing. Any boot camp ensign would have thrown the anchor over the side and stopped the drift, but not our superhero future Presidential Heart throb in chief.

Incompetent, but lucky.

WWII, PT109 is out of fuel drifting towards a hostile shore in a lagoon full of nips with mortars and MG's ready to fire on the hapless boat as soon as the tide brings them within range. So what does our genius future president do? Well nothing. Any boot camp ensign would have thrown the anchor over the side and stopped the drift, but not our superhero future Presidential Heart throb in chief.

1. They weren't in a lagoon but in Blackett Strait, a deep channel (1,200 ft). There was no lagoon anywhere near the location.
2. They weren't drifting out of fuel but idling on a single engine (out of 3) to avoid detection of their wake.
3. They were overrun by a destroyer returning to base at high speed.

1. They weren't in a lagoon but in Blackett Strait, a deep channel (1,200 ft). There was no lagoon anywhere near the location. 2. They weren't drifting out of fuel but idling on a single engine (out of 3) to avoid detection of their wake. 3. They were overrun by a destroyer returning to base at high speed.

Watch the movie, this event happen months before the final disaster which you speak. They were on a mission to rescue a platoon of marines from the lagoon. They ran out off fuel and were drifting in the lagoon towards the enemy. Watch the movie, I think this is an accurate depiction. If so he was an incompetent Naval Officer.

Watch the movie, this event happen months before the final disaster which you speak.

Sorry. My bad.