Posted on 01/29/2008 8:54:55 AM PST by seanmerc
People have been trying to stake a claim to the legacy of President John F. Kennedy ever since that day in Dallas more than 44 years ago. Remember Dan Quayle, who compared his congressional tenure to Kennedy's and got chastised by fellow senator and vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen with that immortal insult: "I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
Everyone can just pipe down now. It's all over.
The political and social legacy of the late president -- Camelot, the Big Myth, the story of American royalty, a sense of Americans being awestruck by themselves -- was gift-wrapped by the Kennedy family yesterday and given to Sen. Barack Obama, a political gift with remarkable and remarkably strange baggage.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Bill Clinton’s legacy: Came-a-lot.
If Barack wins it, he’s gonna let down a whole lot of people who thought he was God.
Bill Clinton’s legacy: Came-a-lot.
Funny. That’s funny.
“....immortal insult: “I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.””
Made “immortal” only by the fawning Left Media and a loaded crowd at the debate. To the “you’re no Jack Kennedy” retort the proper reponse is: “I am very proud to not be associated with the likes of JFK”.
But, why Quayle would seek to identify himself in the first place, with a manufactured icon of the enemy Left, the hugely overrated, supremely mediocre Kennedy, is a mystery
Ironically the only thing this old buzzard said in that statement that was true was Quayle wasn't Jack Kennedy. Dan Quayle was much to honorable to have been Jack Kennedy. Everything else was total fiction in that Loyd Bentsen never met JFK and was not a friend.
Bentsen did serve in the House in the early '50s with JFK, but no one could remember them ever being friends or doing anything together. Bentsen most likely was a casual acquaintance of JFK's. Who knows if JFK even knew his name. Of course, this bit of information was hardly reported on.
Please ratmedia, please keep talking this stuff.
Another hit piece on JFK? Evidently the likening of Obama to JFK has got those upset that are in the Hellary camp. I remember Peter Jennings doing a hit piece on JFK in front of Diane Sawyer who had just a few weeks before lavished praise on the Camelot era. All to protect BoyClinton when he was doing the Monica-maneuver by establishing that he was not as bad as JFK. (Wonder if JFK gave away any military secrets?)
I am amazed that they want what the want to the determent of the truth. What away to live your life!
“As a survivor of RFK’s 1968 campaign,” historian Arthur Schlesinger told
me, “I see John Kerry in the JFK/RFK tradition — a brave, intelligent,
and thoughtful man. I find many similarities between that campaign and
this one, especially our entanglement in a hopeless war at the expense of
urgent domestic woes.”
http://www.nicholasjohnson.org/politics/general/ah040519.html
Same old talk every election.
I liked Reagans follow up to Benstons retort. This time, he was talking about Clinton at the 1992 convention:
“This fellow they’ve nominated claims he’s the new Thomas Jefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And governor, you’re no Thomas Jefferson.”
and another great line from that speech:
“Until then, we see all that rhetorical smoke, billowing out from the Democrats, well ladies and gentlemen, I’d follow the example of their nominee. Don’t inhale.”
JFK has more in common with the republicans of today than the democrats of today. He was fiscally conservative and strong on national defense. Does that sound like Obama??
I thought Barak was all about CHANGE?
Now he’s going back to the 60’s to become a Kennedy?
That is more like a flash back then it is a change.
If a Republican had insulted a Dem in that manner during a debate, the media would have taken the opposite tack - would have called it a cheap shot, rude, nasty, mean-spirited, and would have demanded that the offender apologize.
Teddy Kennedy is said to be upset over the remark by Mrs Clinton that appeared to give President Johnson — disliked by the Kennedys — the greatest credit for civil rights legislation, as a “direct repudiation of the work of his family.
Kennedy was a key leader in the 1965 Hart-Celler Act and got Johnson to sign it into law; which was said to have dramatically changed US immigration policy.
| "The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." |
Kennedy was a leader on the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007, a bipartisan measure which gathered up kudos from the President, but this time his immigration policy failed upon reaching the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Kennedy supported Paul Tsongas against Mr Clinton.
Kennedy supported Al Gore.
Kennedy was a key figure in Kerry's hope to take over the White House.
Kennedy supports Obama.....will history repeat itself?
The NYTimes reported that the Camelot ’08 Overshadows Bush Speech! (..in their dreams)
I look at him with dis stain..
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