Posted on 10/12/2007 4:55:24 AM PDT by NRG1973
John F Kennedy's closest living aide has anointed Barack Obama as the heir to the assassinated president's legacy and predicted that Hillary Clinton would lose an election to a Republican.
Ted Sorensen, 79, Mr Kennedy's chief speechwriter, drew parallels between today and 1960 when another youthful senator espousing hope and change was written off by the Establishment.
Barack Obama greets supporters in Largo, Maryland. Mr Sorensen says his mannerisms echo those of John F Kennedy in 1960
He told The Daily Telegraph: "Both Kennedy and Obama have fantastically winning smiles and I might say both are very relaxed in front of an audience and on television. They don't shout into a microphone, they talk.
"The principles, the values Obama and Kennedy are enunciating are not five-point plans for new health care programmes, which is more Hillary's style."
As another charismatic Harvard alumnus heralding a new era in politics, Mr Obama has been helped by the Kennedy legacy and the aura of Camelot underpinning his campaign.
Mr Kennedy broke down the barrier of becoming the first Roman Catholic president while Mr Obama is vying to become the first black occupant of the Oval Office.
Just as the Massachusetts senator was dismissed by the party hierarchy because of his age and unconventional background, Mr Obama, too, is being branded an also-ran.
Mr Sorensen organised Mr Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, especially efforts to counter anti-Catholic prejudice
Now, the endorsement of Mr Sorensen, who worked for Mr Kennedy for 11 years and wrote the 1961 inaugural speech in which he spoke of a torch having been "passed to a new generation", has made the linkage explicit and given it official sanction.
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Most likely true.
JFK screwed everything that moved.
Didn’t know JFK’s middle name was HUSSEIN!!
JFK heir eh?
so he’s supposed to agree with:
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
which is odd, because last I heard, he was talking about chatting up every dictator on the planet. oh, well,
to the liberal minded, its a nice picture, “Obama = JFK” so they can feel warm and fuzzy about that.
What trumped up hooey!
Another idiot journalist who should be kept from writing so much as a grocery list.
According to Harry Truman, JFK got the nomination because papa Joe bought the West Virginia primary.
Oh, and JFK and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee were in a theater watching an x-rated movie when Kennedy found out that he had won in West Virginia. From Bradlee’s mouth to God’s ear.
According to Harry Truman, JFK got the nomination because papa Joe bought the West Virginia primary.
I thought it was the voter fraud in Illinois/Chicago that put him over the top.
That, and a few thousand dead folks in Illinois that managed to come back to life long enough to cast votes.....
JFK was a LOSER so in that respect it is correct
Some Obama Osama.
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