The strange part is that Kennedy was, according to this writer, President during the Berlin Airlift. This comes as a surprise to many people, who assume that the Airlift ended in 1949.
I supposed that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor too?
Challenge Obammi on any of his positions you're a racist or negative or both.
Not only is this Hurst guy a dumba$$, he is a lying dumba$$. Just my 2 cents.
If the man has that little knowledge of history, good riddance.
Any intelligent person when deciding any question makes up a list of pros and cons. To state that a voter should only know the positive spin about a candidates is asking the voter to pick the candidate who has the best liars on his or her staff.
We do not need another desperate president like George Bush who was desperate to get us into Iraq just so he could be re-elected in 2004.
That comment literally makes no sense. Bush 43 could see his father Bush 41 go to war in 1991 and he lost his re-election attempt. So why, know that, would Bush go to war “just so he could be re-elected in 2004”. I can stop reading there. This writer makes no sense. He may be a republican but he’s really just an elitest.
“Lifelong Republican” my a$$.
Is this guy up in years, could it be dementia? The airlift thing wasn’t even close, missed it by a decade.
What a moron. Totally clueless about history. The reason the Soviets challanged us was because Kennedy was so weak. The Soviets never feared Kennedy and they didn’t back down because of Kennedy.
Another FOOL playing “Life long Republican” CRAP:-() A DemocRAT for sure......
These phony “I am a lifelong Republican, but I’m supporting Obama” letters appear in our local NYT-owned newspaper every week. You can tell by the language they use that someone at DNC headquarters or some union local is behind them. Likely that the writer never voted for a Republican in his or her life.
There was another Berlin crisis during Kennedy's time in office, and a brief second airlift. The Russians figured he was a patsy after the Bay of Pigs disaster, and closed off the land route to Berlin. So Kennedy airlifted supplies until they relented and let the trucks and trains back through.
I remember it well, because I was serving a three-year term in the army at the time and was extended by three months by Kennedy, who was trying to look tough and impress the Russians after that earlier fiasco.
That doesn't mean that this guy still isn't a RINO jerk.
Oh yeah, my favorite part:
“As a lifelong independent Republican” = Blind Squirrel Democrat (finds a nut every once in awhile)
Yes, yes, we must move beyond the “politics of negativity” and bask in the radiant light of HOPE and CHANGE.
G_d Damn America and have a nice day!
Two words, Dennis:
Shut
Up
“In 2000, I voted for John McCain for president “
Really?
So far McCain has clearly not "gone negative". Besides, see how he smiles at the end when he says "I approve this ad". Guy likes the hootchie kootchie gals Fur Sure, and certainly isn't going to run around on hot days in a black suit haranguing crowds.
No! He's a partisan, non-Republican independent maverick! Whatever he is, he's definitely not conservative.
Line by line, the article is full of nonsense. However there was this nugget that I agree with:
“By authorizing his staff to run television ads trying to link Sen. Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton smacks of desperation.”
These and the other vapid attack ads only enhance the disjointedness and intellectual emptiness of the McCain camp. I’d reccommend a consistent philosophy of small govt conservatism but he’s shucked that off quite awhile ago. See how being a “maverick” aint such a hot idea?