Tee Hee Time: What John F. Kennedy did was despicable

NRO ^ | 5/20/2003 | William F Buckley Jr

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

There is an out of print book "It didn't start with Watergate" by Victor Lasky, who details the democratic abuses of FDR, JFK and LBJ *and* the coverup of same in the press and in the congress. Very enlightening reading.

[AmericanVictory]

He started a trend of erratic personal decision-making in matters of strategic importance that ultimately led to the debacle of Bill Clinton. He made very bad decisions that led to the Berlin Wall, for example, which need never have been built. The hagiography over the "Cuban Missile Crisis", for another example, makes one want to puke. Consider something the hagiographers never mention. In exchange for the Soviets supposedly pulling their missiles out of Cuba, we pulled ours out of Turkey, which had given us control over the Soviets. That control was very effective. So by letting Castro go free and unchallenged Kennedy then had to give up our best control of Soviet behavior. Kennedy created a trend which was to culminate in Clinton, of creating problems and then posing heroically to "solve" the problems he had created.

[Consort]

Lingering Camelot Syndrome still afflicts many Liberals. Chris Matthews is a good example.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Keep in mind, the Kennedy family has allowed all this dreadful stuff to be said about their family member for only one purpose - to rescue the legacy of x42.

That's what I thought too. But my local morning DJ's were heaping scorn on Kennedy this morning, with a song parody of Mimi and JFK. Their strategy may be backfiring. In stead of rehabilitating Clinton, they're just dragging Kennedy down to his level (which is apparently where he deserves to be).

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

bttt

[ArGee]

Why do we fail to express outrage when an older man or woman seduces someone much younger than him/herself, regardless of the political implications?

There is a song on the C&W stations where the singer reminisces about a summer he worked for a widow. He sings about how she had "a need to feel the thunder." He goes on to say that he can never hold another woman without seeing that widow's face.

Does anyone but me realize that the widow has stolen something from the man's eventual wife? Does anyone but me realize that the man trivialized something that is actually of great worth?

Our over-sexed society thinks we are but beasts and that orgasm is just another game to be played.

Will we learn otherwise in time?

Shalom.

[DeFault User]

He made very bad decisions that led to the Berlin Wall, for example, which need never have been built.

Well said. The Soviets perceived Kennedy as weak and attempted to exploit that weakness at every turn. The USSR would never have dared to put missiles in Cuba if Nixon or Eisenhower were in the Oval Office. Conversely, the Soviets perception of Reagan was the opposite--they knew he would not back down.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I think back to that November day in 1963 when we cried for this man in our sheer ignorance of who he really was.

[Enduring Freedom]

Thanks!

"Curse from Satan" more appropriate?!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Yes, I can go with curse from Satan.

I would add to your masterful description Ben Bradlee of the Washington Compost, who was a friend of Joseph P. Kennedy, who shilled and covered up for the Kennedys and who played a key role in the destruction of Nixon.

[CyberAnt]

I agree - anytime you get associated with x42 - you get dragged down to his level - the sewer.

JFK was not such a proper fellow. But ... he understood economics and the repubs have been running JFK's statements about tax cuts in their ads.

What better time to trash JFK - which hopefully is supposed to make the repubs look bad - and x42 look not so bad.

I do think it will backfire - BIG TIME!

[COBOL2Java]

[CyberAnt]

I think TED might help Hillary, but he would never do anything to JFK Jr.'s chances to run for the Senate.

But ... I have always believed x42 and his goons were involved in JFK Jr's death! I was only suspicious until the Clintons FORCED their way into the funeral - BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT INVITED!!

[Claire Voyant]

Amen!