Posted on 02/17/2008 3:54:14 PM PST by melt
One man has captured the heart of the new America
It is hard to see who can stop Senator Barack Obama becoming the next President of the United States. He has built up an excitement such as no candidate has created since President Kennedy in 1960. He is, in my view, a better speaker than Kennedy. Like Kennedy, he combines personal magnetism with a strong appeal to American idealism.
Like Kennedy, he is young and speaks for the new generation of American politics. By ordinary political reckoning, 2008 ought to be the Democrats' year. In 2006 they captured both houses of Congress in mid-term elections.
There are, of course, hypothetical events that could change everything. There could be an attack on Mr Obama himself, but he is protected by the Secret Service. There could be an action by al-Qaeda, which would refocus American anxiety on the threat of terror.
But al-Qaeda is itself highly political. It would probably not be in its interest to secure the election of Senator John McCain. Al-Qaeda may be unpredictable, but it would be a mistake for it to interfere in American politics, even if it had the capacity to do so.
At the start of the primaries, when all eyes were on Iowa and New Hampshire, Senator Clinton was the frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination. She had the organisation, she had the money, she had the name recognition, she had the professionalism; she even had Bill Clinton, even if he is something of an unguided missile.
But those days are now long ago. Senator Clinton has fallen behind Senator Obama in almost all of these factors, except for Bill Clinton's support.
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What’s that line in the Good Book about not visiting the sins of the father onto the son???????
If Jack wasn’t into wife swapping and just screwed around like a democrat he would be the senator from Illinois and Obama would still be voting “present” in Springfield !
His brother was a lousy swimmer.
That's quite an assumption considering JFKs penchant for cheating on his wife.
I read somewhere that JFK’s overactive libido may have been a side-effect of medication he was on for his Addison’s Disease.
I think Bama should be drug tested
He was getting injections of amphetamines on a regular basis...come to think of it, Obama’s cocaine “issue” may be the tip of the iceberg!
Hey, can a freeper put a picture of Bin Laden up with the caption,. “YES I CAN’ I’m computer illiterate.
John F. Kennedy was an ardent Roman Catholic? Not according to Mrs. John F. Kennedy: "I think it’s so unjust of people to be against Jack because he’s a Catholic. He’s such a poor Catholic. Now if it was Bobby, I could understand it."
And as long as we're assuming, we might as well assume that an "ardent Roman Catholic" wouldn't practice serial adultery.
I’ve always felt that he didn’t have enough time to actually complete anything. It has seemed to me that he is a “saint” because he died early.
Don't forget the Quid Pro Quo, taking Jupiter IRBMs out of Turkey and Italy in order to get Nikita to take his missiles out of Cuba.
Even John Kennedy was no John Kennedy of his time.
Ted Kennedy was anti-abortion until after Roe v. Wade, prior to that he opposed it. I agree with 2banana, I would vote for JFK or any other Democrat with his views long before I would vote for McCain.
Let's not forget that JFK was the original taxcutter and I think it's a mistake to judge a politician based on their sibling's later positions (look how two of Reagan's kids turned out).
No, that goes to Ronald Reagan.
Which were obsolete and slated to come out anyway......
How 'bout...The Klintoon Machine....The McLaim machine..Millions of White Male voters....The RNC...The Freepers... Conservative talk radio...almost anyone except the mush headed college crowd..and on and on. IMHO
Barack is an adulturing whore-master in the mob's pocket?
Unlike Kennedy, he isn’t (to my knowledge) porking (to be politically incorrect)everything in sight.
I knew JFK and Obama is no JFK. Someone had to say it!
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