Posted on 11/07/2008 11:16:34 AM PST by presidio9
It was a mere fleeting image amid all the others that were beamed into our living rooms on that momentous election night: 7-year-old Sasha Obama in her black party dress, bounding gleefully up into her father's arms, each in turn planting a happy kiss on the other's cheek.
But the heart-tugging moment was as poignant a reminder as any that a vigorous, appealing young family is entering the White House - one that will bring a dramatically different energy and style to the presidency.
And on that night, it wasn't hard to see why some have been tempted to make the comparison with another highly telegenic first family who fascinated and inspired the country nearly a half-century ago: the Kennedys.
Youth, style, optimism - all those hallmarks of Obama's ascension to power remind Ted Sorensen, the speechwriter and adviser to John F. Kennedy, of his former boss. And, he says, an infectious sense of confidence. That's something few of us who watched Obama on that balmy Chicago night could have missed: The sense of calm and assuredness, though not cockiness, that he projected as he accepted the mantle of the most powerful job in the world.
"Kennedy had that confidence, too," Sorensen said. "And it carries over. Just as Kennedy's election restored confidence to a nation, Obama's will have the same results - confidence of Americans in our leadership, of consumers in our economy, of other countries in America."
Young family
What will mark the style of an early Obama White House? Friends of the new first couple say the mansion will be infused with the spirit of Sasha and her 10-year-old sister, Malia, just as the Kennedy White House often is remembered as a playground for Caroline with her pony, Macaroni,
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Maybe.
Is camelot where they sell camels?
LOL
Where is that barf alert?
It’s going to stink from Cigarette smoke.
will it be like camelot? Bill ayers what do you think? you dedicated one of your books to the kennedys didn’t you?
LOLOLOLOL! Camel lot, indeed! Very good! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGpVcdqeS0
There, fixed it.
UM....let’s remember what happened in our last “Camelot”.....
Responding to John F. Kennedy’s pristine Camelot model, Michelle is deliberate in her stance:
“Camelot to me doesn’t work. It was a fairy tale that turned out not to be completely true because no one can live up to that. And I don’t want to live like that.”
http://blackjusticeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/black-camelot.html
Brilliant!!
If historical the first part of it, Cam, could also reflect the Celtic word meaning "crooked"
Too late. Cover of NY Post two days ago was "Bamalot"
Camelot? Why would the AP writer use an example of dead white guy’s kingdom. The damned racist should be sent to a re-education camp. The Beloved Leader will create a new Great Zimbabwe.
The first Camelot was a Big Lie to begin with. Jackie Kennedy was fashionable, but that was about all you could say for her.
JFK was a womanizing heir of the Irish Mafia who stole the election with the help of the same Daley Machine that stole this one, started off on the wrong foot with the Bay of Pigs, began a war in Vietnam that he had no intention of finishing, and accomplished little or nothing during his time in office beyond lots of photos in the Style Section.
But no doubt Obama will make him look very, very good by contrast.
The Kennedy Administration was not referred to as a “Camelot” until after Kennedy was assassinated.
RE: “UM....let’s remember what happened in our last “Camelot”.....”
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Uh huh...... I remember well — and predict history may repeat itself.
Thank you edzo!!! LMAO at that picture. That’s so funny! Is that from Dearbornistan?
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