[Interesting Times]

Here is an interesting article by Ted Sorenson, the gifted speechwriter long-time Kennedy aide who was the real author of JFK's Pulitzer-winning Profile's in Courage. While endorsing Obama more than a year ago for the presidency, Sorensen compared Obama to Kennedy.

In addition to their similar handicaps, Kennedy and Obama share an extraordinary number of parallels. Both men were Harvard-educated. Both rose to national attention almost overnight as the result of starring roles at the nationally televised Democratic convention preceding their respective candidacies: Kennedy in 1956, when he delivered the speech nominating Stevenson and subsequently came close to winning an open-floor struggle for the vice presidential nomination with Estes Kefauver; Obama in 2004, by virtue of his brilliant speech to the convention that year in Boston.

Both also gained national acclaim through their best-selling inspirational books — Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage," published in 1956, and Obama's "The Audacity of Hope," published in 2006.

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Hmm - I have Profiles in Courage, but have not read it. What do you think about the Sorenson’s writing in PIC versus Obama’s first book?