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Will Obama White House be a new Camelot?
Associated Press O ^ | November 7, 2008 | JOCELYN NOVECK

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,

(Excerpt) Read more at southtownstar.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: associatedpressobama; bho2008; camelot; liberalcamelotmyth; topushthepramalot
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To: presidio9

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.......

It’s goiong to be a long four years!


41 posted on 11/07/2008 11:41:25 AM PST by JimBianchi11 (The 2A is the cornerstone of our free society. Those that don't support it, oppose it.)
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To: stop_fascism
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.

What would be a better comparison? The Jeffersons? Sanford and Son? Good Times?

42 posted on 11/07/2008 11:45:33 AM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: presidio9

Let the Democrats go ahead and have their fun. They are going to alienate so many people. When all is said and one, Obama is going to do more to destroy himself than we every will. That being said, we should still resist where we can.


43 posted on 11/07/2008 11:45:45 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Okay lefties... the problem with wanting something, is that you sometimes get it. Good luck now!)
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To: presidio9

It may be a Camelot, it may be a Brigadoon, it may be Big Rock Candy Mountain, it may even be Peter Pan’s Never-Never Land. But it’s not EVER going to anything resembling traditional America.

The more reason to keep something alive that for want of other designation, we may call “Shadow America”, the Rockwellian pictures from the old Saturday Evening Post. We may live, parallel but apart, occupying much of the same real estate, but like on opposite sides of the mirror.

There may be a bizarro world out there, but WE do not have to live in it.


44 posted on 11/07/2008 11:48:48 AM PST by alloysteel (Molon labe! Roughly translated, "Come and take them!" referring to personal weapons.)
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To: presidio9

Will the Obama White house be another Camelot?

ONLY THE DUNGEONS


45 posted on 11/07/2008 11:50:38 AM PST by slorunner
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To: presidio9

I was going to complain that you didn’t put a “barf alert” in the title, but then I realized anyone that couldn’t figure it out from the title alone deserved what they got.


46 posted on 11/07/2008 11:53:44 AM PST by Brookhaven (.)
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To: wolfcreek

Responding to John F. Kennedy’s pristine Camelot model, Michelle is deliberate in her stance:

I can't compete with that!

47 posted on 11/07/2008 11:54:42 AM PST by presidio9 (America: Home of Affirmative Action in Leadership.)
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To: presidio9

Camelot? Only if you mean a lot where you can buy used camels.


48 posted on 11/07/2008 11:55:49 AM PST by mak5
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To: edzo4

Ha Ha, my thoughts exactly.

Camelot, no. Camel-lot, yes.


49 posted on 11/07/2008 11:56:01 AM PST by Brookhaven (.)
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To: Brookhaven

Proudly posting articles like this one for over ten years without a “barf alert.” I respect the intellegence of my fellow FReepers.


50 posted on 11/07/2008 11:56:05 AM PST by presidio9 (America: Home of Affirmative Action in Leadership.)
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To: presidio9

The end did not bode well for the “king” of the former American “Camelot”...


51 posted on 11/07/2008 11:59:16 AM PST by PleaseNoMore
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To: AU72
Another freeper coined it “Obamalot”.

Rusty Humphries already has an Obamalot song. Go to www.talk2rusty.com and listen to the first few minutes of the Nov 5 show. It will crack you up.

52 posted on 11/07/2008 12:02:05 PM PST by BRK
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To: presidio9

“Will Obama White House be a new Camelot?”

No. It will be America’s Kremlin.


53 posted on 11/07/2008 12:12:54 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: presidio9

Hey! That story just made me puke a little.


54 posted on 11/07/2008 12:13:38 PM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Making a stand for America: 63% for McCain/Palin)
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To: AU72

“Another freeper coined it “Obamalot”.”

Or “Scamalot”


55 posted on 11/07/2008 12:14:40 PM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Making a stand for America: 63% for McCain/Palin)
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To: presidio9

And I think Oprah wants to be Guenevere.


56 posted on 11/07/2008 12:14:44 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: PleaseNoMore

“But how was the REST of Dallas trip, Mrs. Kennedy?”


57 posted on 11/07/2008 12:16:46 PM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Making a stand for America: 63% for McCain/Palin)
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To: presidio9

Camelot???

Not with Rahm the Rattlesnake running things. Who’d want to work under that vindictive backstabbing creep?


58 posted on 11/07/2008 12:22:25 PM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: snarkytart

Actually, the kingdom he wants to set up is far, far to the left and called Taxalot.


59 posted on 11/07/2008 12:25:03 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat. And Obama is the Antichrist.)
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To: presidio9

Camelot? I was thinking more along the lines of “Cesspool on the Potomac” myself...


60 posted on 11/07/2008 12:26:11 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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