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Posted on 10/30/2012 1:05:30 PM PDT by neverdem
One of the more melancholy moments of the presidential campaign occurred for me in a screening room. The film was Rory Kennedy's documentary about her mother, Ethel -- the widow of Robert F. Kennedy. Much of it consisted of Kennedy family home movies, but also film of RFK in Appalachia and in Mississippi among the pitifully emaciated poor. Kennedy brimmed with shock and indignation, with sorrow and sympathy, and was determined -- you could see it on his face -- to do something about it. I've never seen that look on Barack Obama's face.
Instead, I see a failure to embrace all sorts of people, even members of Congress and the business community. I see diffidence, a reluctance to close. I see a president for whom Afghanistan is not just a war but a metaphor for his approach to politics: He approved a surge but also an exit date. Heads I win, tails you lose.
I once wondered if Obama could be another RFK. The president has great political skills and a dazzling smile. He and his wife are glamorous figures. He's a black man, and that matters greatly. He remains a startling figure for a nation that was still segregating its schools...
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Kennedy had huge causes. End poverty. End the war. He challenged a sitting president over Vietnam. It could have cost him his career. It did cost him his life. The draft is long gone and with it indignation about senseless wars. Poverty persists, but now it is mostly blamed on the poor. When it comes to the underclass, we are out of ideas ... or patience. Or both. Pity Obama in this regard. It's hard to summon us for a crusade that has already been fought and lost. We made war on poverty. Poverty hardly noticed...
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He sure did have huge causes. He and his brother did more than anyone to cause the mess Vietnam became. As AG he spied on MLK at the height of the civil rights struggle.
Barack Obama: What Never Should Have Been
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FTFY, Richie.
Just be glad we're not going to round you up and stick you in a re-education camp, you loathsome little worm.
” When it comes to the underclass, we are out of ideas ... or patience.”
How about “out of money?” We never lacked for “ideas,” virtually all of them bad, and they bankrupted us.
The poor in America are almost uniformly FAT.
What? What sense would that be? By the time Kennedy ran for office he'd already been in a vicious fight with the organized crime, the Teamsters and had served as Attorney General for three years. 0bama had done...nothing.
Cohen is a sad case. What he's missing is simply that 0bama did not live up to his fantasies. I have enough to despise 0bama over without delving into that sort of silliness.
I guess Richard Cohen forgot the facts of the reason for Kennedy's assassination:
Sirhan "Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War, which had begun exactly one year to the day before the assassination. During a search of Sirhan's apartment after his arrest, a spiral-bound notebook was found containing a diary entry which demonstrated that his anger had gradually fixated on Robert Kennedy, who had promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel if he were elected president."
[ We made war on poverty. Poverty hardly noticed... ]
Like a war on stupidity and stupidity hardly noticed..
The impoverished and stupid will fight you remain stupid and poor..
The problem is the idiot fighting them.., BOTH..
Thats the delusional maniac that needs to incarcerated..
They summarized the underlying philosophy of that solution in a document called the Declaration of Independence, and they framed a Constitution for self-government which limited the coercive power they would allow their representatives to possess, and freed individuals in the "pursuit" of their own "happiness," as long as they did not harm the Creator-endowed rights of their fellows.
As the great moral philosopher, Adam Smith, proposed in his lengthy, but now ignored, treatise, "An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," the individual actions of free individuals, each pursuing his own individual happiness, redounds to the good of all, and tends to produce opportunity, creativity, prosperity, and plenty for an entire society.
So-called "progressives" of the past 100 years or so have chased an opposite theory: that some imperfect persons in a society, by imposing their arrogant and likewise "imperfect" knowledge and will, are likely to create something out of nothing by "taking" and "redistributing" already-created wealth in an endless circle of something they call "solving the poverty problem."
Another sad fact? They call themselves "intellectuals" and "progressives." Go figure!
The perpetuation of the Kennedy fiction never stops. As an Irish Catholic, i was thoroughly indoctrinated in all things Kennedy growing up. Liberals like Cohen see what they want to see in the Kennedy’s. They ignore the fact that JFK won on election fraud in West Virginia and Chicago, put us in Vietnam, left Cubans to die at the at of Pigs and supported supply side economics.
What could have been, wasn’t. Thanks to the american people waking up in time to stop THE DELUSIONAL ANTI AMERICAN LEFT from destroying this country. Now what has been, is. The fraudulent election of THE FOREIGNER, with the full support of the frauds in the MSM and democratic left is collapsing faster than THE FOREIGNER can sidestep a question about BENGHAZI. THE FOREIGNERS election looked to by the left as the greatest thing to ever happen will actually turn out to be their worst nightmare. It will be 50 years before another democrat is trusted enough to run this country again.
“But somewhere between the campaign and the White House itself, Obama got lost. It turned out he had no cause at all. “
Another idiot writer who was too blind to see the obvious in 2008.
Good job, Mr. Cohen!
You can put down the shovel now.
Six feet deep, all laid out, ready to go!
That’s a chart to save. Thank you very much.
I see proof of it, every time I grocery shop, given that I reside in this nation’s most obese and most impoverished state: Mississippi.
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