Look at JFK's Term Offers a Glimpse of Kerry Future (Hurling Chunks on Your Keyboard Warning)

Boston Globe ^ | February 24, 2004 | Peter S. Canellos

[Jim Noble]

WASHINGTON -- Long before the Bush "restoration" and the hope in some places for another Clinton administration, the great unrequited yearning in American politics was to replicate the Kennedy presidency. Through much of the late '60s and '70s, the desire burned so brightly that some authors, led by Garry Wills, believed that all American politics was "imprisoned" by its search for a JFK-type charismatic maverick. That quest led to a generation of blow-dried, square-jawed candidates being elected to the Senate, but no Kennedyesque presidents, and no Kennedy family members even close to the White House.

[Jim Noble]

I'm speechless. No comment necessary.

[krb]

You are right...so many juicy nuggets in this one. I'll start with one:

JFK's charisma is probably not replicable,

Ok, so just because Lurch is one boring, uncharismatic guy, no one after JFK can have charisma.

What about Reagan and Bubba? These people are going to have to do mental limbo in order to get him elected.

[BunnySlippers]

This author is hung up on Kerry's hair obviously.

[goldstategop]

With all due respect to the Boston Globe this JFK is nothing like the JFK of yore. The fact they share the same three initials doesn't mean they had the same regard for America's national interests in an age of great danger. Kennedy stood firm against Communism. What's Kerry's excuse for downgrading the fight and Al Qaeda and Islamofascism to a mere law enforcement exercise? It sounds like the 21st Century JFK has no grasp of how huge the stakes are for America in the years since 9-11.

[backhoe]

the hope in some places for another Clinton administration...

Sweet Lordy Jesus, two terms of the Clintons were quite enough:

-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research -- -The Clinton Files-- -Murder, Inc.-- -ATTENTION BLOODHOUNDS-- -Women in the Clinton Era: Abuse,Intimidation and Smears-- Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON

-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research -- -The Clinton Files-- -Murder, Inc.-- -ATTENTION BLOODHOUNDS-- -Women in the Clinton Era: Abuse,Intimidation and Smears-- Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON

[gunnedah]

Kerry does remind me of a Kennedy though. Ted that is . He is the type that will find a reason to leave someone behind if it suits his purpose.Also he has never done a days work in his life,he lives off of someone else's fortune.

[Miss Marple]

I was going to make a omment, but I can't think of anything except "puh-leeze!"

[visualops]

The legacy of the Kennedy administration was not in policy but in personal leadership: It created an expectation of a chief executive who fully embodied the national ideal and energized certain projects, like the race to the moon, by force of his enthusiasm alone. Johnson and Nixon not only failed to fill Kennedy's shoes, they almost killed themselves trying. It wasn't until Ronald Reagan that a different model of leadership emerged -- that of firm, guiding principles that turn even complicated matters like Mideast politics and economic theory into occasions for ideologically simple responses.

So personal leadership and enthusiasm is good from a Democrat (Kennedy), but personal leadership and enthusiasm from a Republican is "idealogically simple". Amazing how this author can turn a good thing (guiding principles) into a criticism.

[backhoe]

but I can't think of anything except "puh-leeze!"

I know what you mean... I read this drivel with a kind of helpless astonishment that anyone can be so blind or ignorant of recent history.

We were extremely lucky to survive Clinton I and II with our freedom & sovereignty more or less intact. Of course, the degrading, coarsening, and dumbing-down of our culture are part of the price we have to pay for enabling and tolerating such rampant corruption and sleaze in high office.

We will not survive a Clinton III, no matter who their proxy turns out to be.

[goldstategop]

Liberals think that not being "nuanced" and "complicated" and being able to see all sides of a picture makes for lousy leader great. No wonder they've produced a failure and then a mediocre pretender since Kennedy and Johnson were President. No they don't get it all about leadership.

[Jim Noble]

Now that dream is a distant memory, as fragile as the flickering flame on a snowy Arlington hillside

Sick, sick, SICK

[There's millions of'em]

Yea, and they are already referring to the Kerry/Edwards ticket as the "JohnJohn" ticket.

[Samwise]

There aren't enough vomit alerts in the world to prepare someone for this article. I am truly sickened. I read somewhere that Kerry's slogan was "A new JFK for a new century." Blech!

I am going to need sedatives by the end of this campaign.

[RightOnline]

The author swerves into accuracies.

Kennedy and Kerry have more in common than their initials. Both were over-hyped to the extreme. Both came from privileged backgrounds in the liberal hellholes of New England. Both were born with silver spoons in their mouths and, their military backgrounds aside, never had to work a day in their lives. Both felt an air of superiority over the common folk; they're just that much smarter than the rest of us. Both were darlings of a liberal mass media.

However......................Americans are more media savvy now than in 1960. Kerry is the pig wearing lipstick; may be an attempt to make him look better on camera, but you can still tell he's a pig.

[Diogenesis]

The Boston Globe lives between fantasy and utter fabrication

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“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
(Democrat) Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

– Charles Pierce, January 5, Boston Globe Magazine

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From The Boston Globe's own war against the War for Enduring Freedom.

Turkish bombings, including that of the HSBC bank murdering a dozen people and wounding scores,
directly resulted from smears in the Boston Globe used to demean America and incite terrorists.
The Boston Globe claimed the American liberation of Iraq from the murderous Saddam was a "rape".

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The Boston Globe has a history of front-page slurs against the valiant American military [which later were merely fabricated] [4/8/03]

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The Boston Globe has a history of falsifying front page polls
BOSTON GLOBE FABRICATES FRONT-PAGE POLL [4/9/03]

[johnb838]

Kerry does remind me of a Kennedy though. Ted that is .

This seems like a good time to remind our younger readers that back in the 60s, Teddy was considered to be the baby of the Kennedy brothers, the spoiled one, the one for whom things had always come a little too easy. The incident at Chappaquiddick was widely viewed as evidence of his weak character.

[oh8eleven]

With all due respect to the Boston Globe this JFK is nothing like the JFK of yore.
Hell, the JFK of yore wasn't even close to the JFK that the Dems
and "unbiased media" have made him out to be for the last 40 years.

[mylife]

Wow!! Kennedy and Kerry have the same initials. What are the odds Huh?

It must be a sign from the "Dem 'I' Gods" /sarcasm

[BB2]

And like Kennedy, Kerry will have the Democrats massive voter fraud machine working hard to dredge up phoney votes to try to win by hook or crook. But it's for our own good ya know!

[foreverfree]

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