"And when I returned, Joan, and the lady drinking with her, were Go-hnn".
Posted on 07/20/2005 6:41:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
To give him his due, he looks better than he has in years, so much so that when he falls off the wagon, you can now tell right away! I also receive the distinct impression he loathes Kerry. I reckon he imagines that had it not been for Chappaquiddick, it would be he running for President!
that's the copy Berger snuck out in his boxers
rofl
it's always good to invite a Bunk to a debunking
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He was a Marine training some of them on his TDY in southwest Florida I think. He never filled me in but said that he had trained Spanish speaking soldiers to fight "anti-Americans" in Latin America. Guatamala, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, and other south American countries. Gave me a book by Mao on Guerilla warfare that had been translated by a Marine officer. He told me that the last "big war" was the Korean War and all the others were going to look like Vietnam.
when Kennedy was shot, my mom and family were all boo-hooing.... my dad didn't say anything. Said that he was the slimiest son of a b#$%h and that his brothers were worse.
My mom thought the world of JFK cause he was a Catholic..... oh well.... the "myth" of camelot continues.
What do you expect from a man, when his Daddy buys him a job?
The CAMELOT fraud wasn't pushed until a few years AFTER the assassination and was thought up by Jackie, pushed upon E.B. White, who then orchestrated the drooling sycophantic MSM to carry it forth. And this was at a time, when Jackie and Bobby were having a torrid affair. Which I have an eyewitness for, to substantiate that fact.
And what the revisionist history has left out for 40+ years, is that JFK's presidency was just one mess after another. Even the UNIONS couldn't stand him and made him cave in to the myriad of strikes they pulled, all through his presidency.
Besides one tax cut, there wasn't a damned thing right he and his team did. "THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST" turned out to be nothing but bumbling idiots, traitors, frauds, whore mongers, drug addicts, and morons.
"And when I returned, Joan, and the lady drinking with her, were Go-hnn".
he did appoint Whizzer White to the Supreme Court, so that was one good thing.
you got the funny bone going again tonight.
I'm not sure if you're able to hear Boston's Howie Carr Show up there in beautiful Kennebunkport, but when I lived in Boston years ago, Howie would often broadcast Teddy's incoherent proclomations. They were hillarious.
It really got pushed and named AFTER the assassination, okay.
But I do remember Vaughn Meador's comedy album, The First Family. Though the Kennedy White House let him know that they would not appreciate any more such things it did kind of project a "camelot." IMO.
I say again. Kennedy was telegenic at a time when TV really mattered for the first time. Being telegenic is the only thnig that made him popular beyond the partisan crowd. Period. He was as you described.
I've got to mention Barry Goldwater. Yes, sometimes he did not help his cause. He spoke openly and frank. IMO Americans liked that in those days. As usual the MSM did not.
Having the likes of Walter "North Viet Nam Communists' most trusted American" Cronkite trying to tie Goldwater to the Kennedy assassination and other distortions by the MSM did not help either.
Really now?! Sequestered on what planet?
I HATED JFK, at first sight and my political guts haven't failed me since. I watched the debate ( the FIRST televised one ever !) and did NOT think that JFK had won it. WHY? Because I listened to what he and Nixon said.
Nooooooooooo...the Vaughn Meator album had NOTHING at all to do with "CAMELOT".
Nobody, NOBODY, not even the MSM, made JFK, once he was in office, out to be "THE GREAT MAN", until after the assasination. Even the N.Y. Times ran anti articles about him. Where do you think I got my info about the UNIONS and all of the strikes ( the Steel Unions trashed JFK constantly !) form? I READ IT IN THE TIMES ! And yes, I have a very good memory, which back then, was photographic. I can still see, in my mind's eye, the pictures and the articles about JFK and the strikes, his sucking up to the Dragon Lady and how he pandered to the damned French.
As a matter of fact, it was due to Jackie and the insufferable French, that we got sucked deeper into Nam.
Sort of. LOL
Yep.
Though I was told this, by her ( and she's an unimpeachable, honest as the day is long person ) in the early months of 1965, it has later been written of, by others, whose credentials you might think more highly of. Since you doubt me, go search FR's archives; the articles ( none from the Enquirer or other such rags, BTW ) should still be in there. :-)
My conclusion is that there were a whole lot of pissed off Cubans.
“Mr. President,” Ambassador Thompson admonished, “if we go on the basis of a trade, which I gather is somewhat in your mind, we end up, it seems to me, with the Soviets still in Cuba with planes and technicians and so on. Even though the missiles are out, that would surely be unacceptable and put you in a worse position.”…
But, the president also continued to press for a deal on the Turkish missiles. Rusk, finally recognizing JFK’s determination, suggested that RFK advise the ambassador that a public quid pro quo for the missiles in Turkey was unacceptable, but the president was prepared to remove them once the Cuban crisis was resolved. The proposal was quickly accepted. Robert Kennedy was instructed to tell Dobrynin that any Soviet reference to this secret proposal would make it null and void.
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