Contemplating Camelot: Thousands Of Biographies Reveal An Ever-Changing Image Of JFK

WBUR ^ | May 26, 2017 | David Boeri

[SunkenCiv]

• Michael Skakel free: Supreme Court won''t hear case
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• TV special glosses over the truth behind JFK Jr.'s doomed flight
• Patrick Kennedy's new book will leave us all in stitches

[rktman]

💩 a lot

[SunkenCiv]

• Democratic Debacle -- 1964 convention, repercussions

[SunkenCiv]

We're knights of the Round Table, we dance when ere we're able...

[Migraine]

I liked him. I was in High School. What can you expect?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, I’ve heard the whole Camelot thing was pushed by Jackie after the assassination. Nobody had called the JFK era the Camelot era while he was alive. It was all in retrospect that they decided to create this image of Camelot.

[Jamestown1630]

I’d certainly rather have had someone like him than any of the democrat presidents who came after.

[Robwin]

JFK benefitted from the same thing Obama did: an adulatory and completely uncritical press. In reality he was an incompetent drug addict (methamphetamine) who was constantly unfaithful to Jackie.

[SunkenCiv]

He was a likeable guy, but in reference to JFK, some apologist once said, great men are not always good men. :^)

[jmacusa]

For crying out bloody loud you’d think this womanizing , high born, low brow Boston Brahman was the only president this nation ever had. I’m sick of him and the rest of that wretched bunch.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

She did, and I had to take it out while excerpting this one.

[laplata]

Today JFK would not be welcome in the Democrat Party.

[DIRTYSECRET]

‘Great men are not good men?’ Think Ronald Reagan. Just look at how screwed up his kids are.

[Mastador1]

Today JFK would not be welcome in the Democrat Party.

Sure he would, it would just have taken a lot more of daddies mob money to buy the election.

[editor-surveyor]

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JFK died fighting the same cabal as President Trump is fighting today.
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[editor-surveyor]

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>> “Just look at how screwed up his Nancy's and Jane's   kids are.” <<

[sparklite2]

No, he wouldn’t. “Ask not what your country can do for you...” is in direct opposition to the Great Society welfare state. If Trump said that, he’d be accused of dissing minorities, if not actually called a racist. The Democratic party is so for left of Kennedy, he comes off as conservative. He would never fit in today’s socialist-leaning Democratic party.

[SunkenCiv]

Today, JFK would parrot whatever line of bull the DNC put out.

[laplata]

Maybe and maybe not. We’ll never know. But the JFK of 1962 would not be welcome in the party today.