Boston.com's Matthew Gilbert
Paging Captain Renault....
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.
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.