Given the coverage the incumbent president is getting, orgive me if I’m skeptical about that.
The difference is Obama is an emperor with no clothes - and it is becoming apparent even to the blind...
The media coronated this family and they were suitable representatives of the lack of morality in the media.
And then there are those of us who never gave a fig for the Kennedys from the get-go.
JFK stole an election; sent a brigade of young Cubans across a beach, lost his nerve, cancelled their air support, and abandoned them; plunged the country into Vietnam; abandoned the balanced budget orthodoxy that had until then been dominant in both parties in peacetime, with the exception of FDR; was a sexual predator; and was an utterly ineffective legislator. I will give him credit for cutting taxes, but his substantive record is mostly negative. Absent the assassination, this would be the historical verdict.
On the other hand, he was personally charming, photogenic, fronted for a nicely written ghost-written book, and gave a nice speech. Post-assassination, this made him a god to the media, and to the democrat party.
Bobby and Teddy were non-entities propelled by sheer post-assassination sentimentality. That this lasted so long is simpy collective insanity.
No other politician would have been allowed to get away with what Kennedy got away with.
I seem to recall that the “self-made” millionaire made his millions as a smuggler and bootlegging? DemonRAT politics is a natural progression, though some wait to engage in organized crime until after they get in office.
In massachusetts we have an example where the vast majority of liberals there need to be institutionalized to protect America from their insanity.
The entire Kennedy Camelot “mystique” was the product of clever exploitation of the new medium of television by the best political marketing organization Joe Kennedy Sr’s money could buy. None of the Kennedys ever really ran for political office in the hitherto conventional sense; rather they were marketed to the American public as “political products” in very the same manner as toothpaste, underarm deodorant, or new cars.
An important book still remains to be written about this marketing of the Kennedy illusion.
Joseph Kennedy, a self-made millionaire,Illegal booze runner.
“Those who remember the 1960s understand viscerally, even if they do not share themselves, the almost mystical devotion the Kennedys inspired. “
And when it’s not the Kennedys it’s the Obamas. There are enough people in this country who don’t worship God, thereby leaving their worshipper waving in the wind and fixating on whatever demonic idol presents itself.
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles - anything will do for their worshipping antennas to get a fix on.
The Death of Ted Kennedy and as Barone writes, the Death of an American experiment with nobility, these also correspond with the Death of Obama, politically, for he will not recover, his polls will drop, he will either quit, be thrown out of office as a usurper, or be impeached and thrown out, or he will lose in 2012.
Obama was a Kennedy. They said it! He suggested it, again and again. He rode that same political tide, that’s why he spoke in Berlin. “I’m the black JFK!”
Well, he isn’t, yet the fortunes of the Kennedys and Obama are chained together — both are sinking into a cold briny deep quickly.
George Washington, the greatest President, in his decision to decline the Kingdom of a new country, effectively ended the trappings of royalty for this country.
The people in Massachusetts have a different experiment:
How to take a whiskey-runner’s kids and prop them up for the last 60 years so as to squelch any semblance of rationality for the state.
Talk about decline of a commonwealth.
The claim of and "American Royalty" makes no sense post 1969. After that the family's political successes were largely confined to New England. A more accurate description may be Massachusetts and New York royalty.
Don’t hold your breath, the “EXPERIMENT” isn’t over yet. They are already floating trial balloons regarding the communist Chavez loving Joseph Kennedy Jr or Uncle Teddy’s half his age wife running for his seat. The brain dead people at the Boston Globe and the MA electorate MUST have Kennedy MASTERS lording over and ruling over them because the voters of MA are for lack of a better term: S T U P I D!
"will seem bizarre to future generations."
Not yet to some apparently.
They have shifted from Camelot and the Once and Future King to Pharaoh now. Not quite over yet.