I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Boston. It seemed that every home had a portrait of JFK in their den. Usually over the grand piano that nobody every played except when children were forced to take lessons.
The level of Kennedy worship in that area is scary. Even today, if you run a Kennedy on the ballot - even if he's a drunken bum - he's likely to win.
Ted Kennedy for example. I rest my case.
That’s true. I grew up in eastern Connecticut in the 70’s and 80’s and the JFK idolatry was huge there too. Lots of Irish and Italian Catholics there who voted Democrat then and still do today, yet many of them are pro-life and not all that fond of the LGBT. I think it is the idolatry to folks like FDR and JFK that keeps them RATS and because their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents all voted D!
And why do you think the Washington Post is writing about Camelot and Jackie now? Rather than Melania Trump, that is?
With no race war (black dress designer against white man), with no Camelot, the democrats lose.
Well I’m a Conservative but, I still like Jack and Bobby.
I remember that time as a young girl, very young, I think 12 or so, and it was a little magical. Those guys seemed to glue us all together, (I was in NY on Long Island) and we all had that kind of almost giddy feeling of ‘this is wonderful’ and you know what...? Trump brings it.
I know of their imperfections. But, I don’t mind. It was a wonderful time to be proud of being American.
As it is now for me. We are the most wonderful country in the world.
We really are.
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Picture on the plate?
In the summer of 1961 we were living in a rental home with a portrait of JFK in the living room captioned, “John F. Kennedy, Man of the Sixties”.
I mean, JFK had taken office only five months earlier and the Sixties had just begun! Oh, well, those were optimistic times, with the New Frontier and the space program and kids saying to each other, “A-OK and all systems are GO!”