Responding to John F. Kennedy’s pristine Camelot model, Michelle is deliberate in her stance:
I can't compete with that!
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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I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.......
It’s goiong to be a long four years!
What would be a better comparison? The Jeffersons? Sanford and Son? Good Times?
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.
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.
Will the Obama White house be another Camelot?
ONLY THE DUNGEONS
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.
Responding to John F. Kennedy’s pristine Camelot model, Michelle is deliberate in her stance:
I can't compete with that!
Camelot? Only if you mean a lot where you can buy used camels.
Ha Ha, my thoughts exactly.
Camelot, no. Camel-lot, yes.
Proudly posting articles like this one for over ten years without a “barf alert.” I respect the intellegence of my fellow FReepers.
The end did not bode well for the “king” of the former American “Camelot”...
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.
“Will Obama White House be a new Camelot?”
No. It will be America’s Kremlin.
Hey! That story just made me puke a little.
“Another freeper coined it “Obamalot”.”
Or “Scamalot”
And I think Oprah wants to be Guenevere.
“But how was the REST of Dallas trip, Mrs. Kennedy?”
Camelot???
Not with Rahm the Rattlesnake running things. Who’d want to work under that vindictive backstabbing creep?
Actually, the kingdom he wants to set up is far, far to the left and called Taxalot.
Camelot? I was thinking more along the lines of “Cesspool on the Potomac” myself...
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