Tee Hee Time: What John F. Kennedy did was despicable

NRO ^ | 5/20/2003 | William F Buckley Jr

[socal_parrot]

There has never been a president in my lifetime (Eisenhower +) that sold "family man" as did JFK. Kennedy as a President was over rated. His early death has led to a cottage industry of "what ifs".

[Utah Girl]

Don't forget Camelot. The media and the Left were complicit for years selling the American people the myth of a Kennedy Camelot.

[marron]

Stories about his drug use and his other private sins need to be made public, not because they are terribly important, but because his enablers saw fit to hide them all these years.

But I am much more interested in tabling a real discussion, finally, about the assassination of President Diem, about the betrayal and subsequent slaughter of the Tibetan Army, and the betrayal of the Eisenhower's Cuban force, abandoned into the waiting hands of Castro's Army. These are subjects we have only barely begun to explore. I would like to see a 10-part miniseries on these aspects of Camelot. Camelot. Thats an Orwellian turn of phrase if ever there were one.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

SLOB IN THE HAMTONS!!!!!

[Utah Girl]

Good points.

[Utah Girl]

Amazing how low class the Democrats are. The Kennedy family, the Clintons, LBJ, Roosevelt.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

HAMTONS="HAMPTONS"
sorry for the pocket pc stylus!

[lizma]

I used to think the Democratic Party went the Trailor Park Trash Party recently. Wrong.

Some how honor and decency have evaded them for quite a while.

[CyberAnt]

Keep in mind, the Kennedy family has allowed all this dreadful stuff to be said about their family member for only one purpose - to rescue the legacy of x42.

If anybody's disgraceful, the Kennedy's are.

[MHT]

Another case of a Democrat having sex in a federal workplace with a powerless subordinate during office hours. Sounds more like sexual harassment than someone's "private life". ("Private life" is what you do with actresses at Peter Lawford's house when you're out there visiting your sister while your wife is away.)

Once again, the best book on Kennedy remains, "A Question of Character" by Reeves. Out of print, but worth the alibris.com search.

[Claire Voyant]

Camelot Came-a-lot. What a disgusting legacy.

[Claire Voyant]

Some of them are White Trash...some of them are Gold Trash, but they are ALL Trash.

[Enduring Freedom]

Clinton is a gift from God to conservatives for revealing the truth of the past.

The shameless, transparent deceit and lust for power of the Democrats have revealed the modern history of America for what it was - a damnable lie.

Think of the media fawning over Kennedy, and the cover-up of his criminal deeds and deep personal failings.

The legendary Cuban crisis was resolved only with the cover-up of the killing of an American U2 pilot shotdown by the Cubans, and the shameless, face-saving backroom deal to remove Turkish weapons in exchange.

The Nixon crisis was orchestrated by Hillary Rodham and the Leftist media on the attack, including the severely-biased but (at the time) respected Walter Cronkite, using those infamous, anonymous sources. Much, if not all of the whole affair was a complete fabrication and distortion.

Virtually every Republican President has been portrayed by the media as awkward and stupid, including football star Ford, Reagan, and our current trained jet pilot, world-class athlete and Harvard MBA, President George W. Bush.

Immoral, indecent, criminal and even wheelchair bound Presidents of Democratic persuasion have always been shielded by the Leftist media.

Hollyweird continues today to overtly and covertly support the Democratic, anti-American, Marxist line, in the same way as it has for generations. Nearly every major American movie and television series of the past, on current viewing, has some embedded cheapshot directed at conservative, Republican, American values that makes them nearly unviewable today.

The Socialist Left needs to be destroyed.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Wouldn't a TED KENNEDY who is so willing to expose his own brother JFK to public shame just to buttress HILLARY's Return to the White House...

...do all that he could to stop JFK jr's determination to run against HILLARY for the New York Senate Seat..?

[speedy]

Shades of the old Buckley in this column. Great to see some of that energy again.

[Tijeras_Slim]

His early death has led to a cottage industry of "what ifs".

None would have been as bad as the reality.

[oyez]

To think, my 8th grade history teacher worshiped JFK. I can remember what she said, what the media said and what the community said. I've learned to trust my community more than any thing.

[Alamo-Girl]

Hmmm ... Thanks for the heads up!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Very well put and well summarized. You've nailed it precisely. (... well except the part about the gift from God :) )