The Kentucky Democrat (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Due to Shabbas, I'm just now getting online but here is my post for Remembering the late president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Sr. Rather than repost the entire thing, I'll just link to it.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Given a long life and a little luck Barack Obama promises to be a much better president than the Jack Kennedy I can recall.
PWW Daily Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
During the vice-presidential debate of 1988, Republican nominee Dan Quayle attempted to draw a parallel between himself and John F. Kennedy. Quayle's Democratic opponent, Lloyd Bentsen, who had served with Kennedy in the Senate, looked Quayle in the eye and said, evenly, "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
The Obama-lovin' was in full bloom on Wednesday's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" when interim "Meet the Press" host Tom Brokaw actually said, " I don't remember this level of excitement for a new president since 1960 when Jack Kennedy was elected President of the United States ." Now, in fairness, as I was born in 1960, I don't know what kind of excitement existed for JFK after that...
Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The demographic countdown : There is no question that Obama owes a debt to the Kennedys - but it may be far greater than he or they realize. Yes, Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered a crucial early endorsement, comparing the Obama of 2008 to the Jack Kennedy of 1960. And certainly Caroline and others in the Kennedy family worked hard on the campaign trail. But the greatest...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
From the Boston Globe: There is no question that Obama owes a debt to the Kennedys - but it may be far greater than he or they realize. Yes, Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered a crucial early endorsement, comparing the Obama of 2008 to the Jack Kennedy of 1960. And certainly Caroline and others in the Kennedy family worked hard on the campaign trail. But the greatest...
Mac Beach (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
It is hard to find a precedent in American history. Ronald Reagan was a marquee star because of his Hollywood career, but mainly among older voters, since he made his last movie 16 years before winning the White House in 1980. Jack Kennedy was a more formal figure after winning the 1960 election -- "trying to look older than he was, because he thought youth was a handicap in running for...
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... No. Eisenhower trusted Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, who pulled in a variety of self-made men. Jack Kennedy trusted Harvard and his brother RFK, and at one point in the Vietnam debate in 1963 was surrounded by five professors, not one lawyer or governor or congressman. Johnson owned Congress, but he inherited the sour, hangdog arrogant Kennedy staff and the pest RFK and had...
Bloggin on down the Rogue (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
CAMELOT The toady media is trying to paint the Obamas as the inheritors of Camelot... [Google it, there are many] Rush Limbaugh had a montage of talking heads all speculating about how this was the re-establishment of Camrlot (the Kennedys). Jack Kennedy was a veteran of WW2 and a decorated war hero. Obama is a veteran Chicago street thug, socialist agitator, and was a drug user/dealer,...
Pytheas Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The Boston Globe today posts an amazing story openly attributing Barack Obama's recent election as President of the United States to the 1965 Immigration Act, shepherded through Congress by Senator Ted Kennedy. There is no question that Obama owes a debt to the Kennedys - but it may be far greater than he or they realize. Yes, Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered a crucial early endorsement,...
The Daily Novel (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... now clear that Obama is going to a different President than any President in history. Not another Jack Kennedy, nor a black Bill Clinton, not even a twenty-first century version of Franklin D Roosevelt. But his own man, an unusual mixture of romantic poet, Harvard egg-head, political organiser.So I am full of hope. But dismayed. Because although I have repeatedly said that this is...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... a carpentry manual. They were delivered in a confident, edgy cadence that reminded some of us of Jack Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr.His words bailed him out of campaign troubles and lit the fireworks of victories. Now different words — some steel beneath the music — will be needed by President Obama in hard times ahead.Do mere words matter? Never mind that his rivals Hillary Clinton...
the chronicles of riddance (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
I have often bemoaned the fact that my generation never had a Jack Kennedy or a Bobby Kennedy or anyone really like that. I think we've been looking for someone like that for most of our lives, and at every stop been disappointed. It's not that Jack Kennedy was a perfect president, he wasn't. It's not that Bobby Kennedy would have been a perfect president,...
Funny blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Eugene Allen served eight presidents over three decades as White House Butler. He shared a birthday with Gerald Ford, was personally invited to Jack Kennedy’s funeral, and sat at a state dinner with the Reagans. He was there while America’s racial history was being remade: the Little Rock school crisis, the 1963 March on [...]
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Eugene Allen served eight presidents over three decades as White House Butler. He shared a birthday with Gerald Ford, was personally invited to Jack Kennedy’s funeral, and sat at a state dinner with the Reagans. He was there while America’s racial history was being remade: the Little Rock school crisis, the 1963 March on [...]
