As a side note, the treatment of the Cuban freedom fighters by Kennedy must have had a devastating effect on the CIA's ability to put local feet in any intel op around the world since. Bad news travels fast and far. We'll probably never know if that was and is a factor in the CIA's failure to crack Al Queda operations.
bitt: the funny bone sorta ends where Ted begins. Kerry is funny. But Teddy, althoug ludicrous, is also much more dangerous. Ted spends liberally of his ill-gotten gains to maintain one of the largest senatorial stafs in history. He has every think from pimps to hit men on his staff, and a whole lot of far-left-wing policy wonks in between. They turn this vicious drunk into a 1-man legislative crime wave.
Kerry, who is actually quite a doofus, thankfully does nothing. And he is very cheap about staff. May it please Our Lord that Ted would better follow his example.
remember the bumper sticker,
KERRY: Just Like Ted, without the dead girl in the car.