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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It sounds a bit bizarre.
The media will keep telling us it is, until they and others actually believe it.
This stuff is just sickening.
This needed a megs bsrf projectile hurl altert
Another freeper coined it “Obamalot”.
Camel Shiite a lot..........
This has to be one of the most gagging articles I have read in a long time.
Terrible.
Not likely. Kennedy was a rank conservative compared to theh Obama machine.
The first was a media hyped abomination towards the ideas of our founders (No King, Queen, Prince, Princes, or tyrants, just the Constitution) and the second will be as well.
This Camelot stuff was sappy, sophomoric and stupid the first time around. Now it is stale, cliche, lame and pathetic.
Yes! You have shown rare insight into what makes the Left tick!
No ‘Barf Alert’?
Oh good Lord..
Someone please smack the MSM. Please.
why yes.... yes indeed!
This author is whacked out.
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