[Fiji Hill]

Maybe, but, sadly, I don't foresee a ‘wake up’. We still adore FDR

Indeed. Even the "conservative" Conrad Black sings his praises. And this is even more true for JFK,who is being lionized even in the conservative press as the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination approaches.

[Wallace T.]

Ironically, the conservative movement of the 1960s despised Kennedy, his liberal politics, and his Harvard and Hollywood entourage as much as contemporary conservatives despise Obama and for similar reasons. I am not denying that Obama is miles to the left of Kennedy, but then again conservatism has moved leftward and is closer to Nelson Rockefeller than Barry Goldwater. The liberal media of the 1960s was ready to pin the blame for the Kennedy assassination on the right wing, especially as it took place in Dallas, then a conservative stronghold. Inconveniently for them, the man arrested for the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a Marxist who had defected to the Soviet Union from the Marine Corps.