Kennedy was an oxymoron, a patriot and a fraud, a patrician with appeal as a lunchpail politician, a shining hero who was morally dissolute, a picture of health who was a dying junkie, an orator who offered transcendental vision but who was essentially a cynic.
The iconography of Camelot, after a half-century, has been exposed for the myth it always was. Ironically, it is the myth and not the man which has done so much for the Democrat party as the Democrats have run on the myth in every cycle. It provided cover for one of the most debased politicians in American history, Teddy Kennedy, to survive scandal, indeed even negligent homicide, and cause the Republic untold harm during his long tenure in the United States Senate.
The entire myth was a lie, a lie in the sense of Obama's charisma is a lie, it is a myth served up by elite Democrats to be accepted by rank-and-file Democrats and impressionable but naïve Americans who want to believe in their heroes.
Suggest you drop Ira Stoll a line and tell him all the research he did about JFK is just a bunch of lying nonsense.
He should be impressed.
Absolute fact is JFK appointed pro-life Byron White to the US Supreme Court. White and a very young William Rehnquist,
appointed by Nixon were the only two that didn’t give this country legalized murder.
Five republican appointed justices did the evil deed. Republicans gave us Roe w. Wade, the exact same way that a republican appointed justice gave us ObamaCare.