[dts32041]

New flash John is still a memember of the Rock Group Dead Kennedy's.

[mountaineer]

the chance of another Kennedy achieving the presidency no longer seems inevitable. A promise unfulfilled

What promise? Who ordained that this family of drunks, sex addicts and miscreants should run America ad infinitum?

[Maceman]

Thirty-nine years after JFK's assassination, the chance of another Kennedy achieving the presidency no longer seems inevitable remotely possible, except perhaps in delusional West Wing la-la land..

[js1138]

Anyone who thinks the name "camelot" is inappropriate, hasn't read about the original.

[cubreporter]

Telling...very telling.

I was dusting my furniture on Nov 22, 1963 and just 7 days away from the birth of our second child. I was in the corner of the living room and had the TV on. Stood there lifeless hearing the word as the Breaking News appeared on our screen. Shock, sadness, anger and other emotions all rolled up into one.

The world stopped! The funeral, the family, Jackie and the children just made you cry. It was a very tragic time for our country. I saved papers and magazines and anything that had their photos or stories about the Kennedys. I loved President Kennedy, his wife and children and his whole family and to see this happen to him was unbearable.

Unfortunately over the years the shine on the Kennedys in my eyes and heart began to dim and dim and dim until there was nothing left.

Very sad when you think of the potential that was there and what good they could have done. Granted President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy had their lives shortened by fanatics who I hope are burning in hell as we speak. However, the rest of the family could have done great things for this country and stood tall doing all they could to keep that shine on the Kennedy name.

I was disappointed, sad and disgusted with the behaviors of the remaining Kennedys whose antics and arrogant mentality constantly made the headlines in the most negative ways.

They were a family that COULD have been but instead became a family that NEVER would. A sad ending brought on by them and them alone and that's the biggest tragedy of all!

[IncPen]

Thirty-nine years after JFK's assassination...

He's still dead. Amazing, I know...

[bjs1779]

-I'll always give him respect for this:


"This nation needs a tax cut now that will benefit every family and every business. A tax cut means higher family incomes. More after-tax money means more buying power. And this means more production and the jobs our nation needs. We are talking about a tax cut that will help create jobs and income for everyone. I strongly urge you to support this bill for you family’s sake and your country’s sake."

– John F. Kennedy
Sept. 18, 1963

Tax cut passed posthumously in 1964



"It should be noted that many of Kennedy's more liberal economic advisors opposed the tax cut, most notably John Kenneth Galbraith. So did some Republicans who were fixated on green-eyeshade budgeting, such as a congressman from Kansas by the name of Robert Dole."
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0301jfk.htm

[Jim Noble]

An interesting question, for anyone who wants to discuss this article rather than just heap invective on JFK's progenitors and living relatives:

Why can't the liberals just move on?

The guy's been dead for half a lifetime, for heaven's sake.

Why do they keep recycling this weepy "promise unfulfilled" garbage?

Psychology of the left ping, please.

[RightWhale]

Oh, yeah. That explains the release of the details of JFK's daily meds a couple days ago.

"It's Nov 22 coming up, let's do a JFK story. Something to tarnish his image a little."

[N. Theknow]

Kennedys: Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't golf, can't publish a magazine, can't govern, can't keep hands off babysitters....

[x]

... with Sen. Strom Thurmond's retirement, he is now the third-longest serving senator.

That's appropriate, since Teddy is such a dinosaur, but who's been in there longer than he has? Byrd? Who else?

[Lloyd227]

", the chance of another Kennedy achieving the presidency no longer seems inevitable"

A very important reminder of yet another thing to be thankful for.

Good timing! :-)

[SamAdams76]

the chance of another Kennedy achieving the presidency no longer seems inevitable. A promise unfulfilled

Well, at least we have the Bush family to carry the torch. In fact, the Bush dynasty has already eclipsed in achievement in the past 15 years what the Kennedys have done in the past 60. And for the Bushes, the best is yet to come.

I mean, after JFK and RFK, what did we have? A bunch of womanizing, dimwitted, inebriated drug and alcohol abusers. None of them rising above the level of mere congressman (Teddy got his senate seat when JFK was still alive).

I always did like JFK, though I am too young to remember him. He was probably the last Democrat president that actually liked America and wasn't a damn socialist.