The Kennedy Cancer

STFU and assume the position, Bobby

“ "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies ... [Denying man-made climate change] is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." - Robert Kennedy, Jr. ” I kind of agree with Bobby about the rotten politicians, except for their identities I suspect.  I was once enthralled by John F. Kennedy and his extended family.  Unfortunately, I like reading history books, and there came a time when some of it, Kennedy history, was published without the family' controlling hand. And then more.  Edward Kennedy and little Bobby here have finished the job of destroying any goodwill I once had for them. John F. Kennedy was more engaging than Richard Nixon, and his wife was lovely.  That's about all Jack had going for him, in retrospect.  Yesterday's Wall Street Journal ran a piece titled Sham-a-Lot, by Joseph Epstein. While I abhor the current, mostly leftist, practice of destroying  America's role models and heroes for political gain, with rigged historical facts - Thomas Jefferson comes immediately to mind - there's plenty of  documentation in JFK's case. “ As someone with a vivid memory of Kennedy's brief and lackluster term as president, I have been amused over the following 44 years to watch the myth of the greatness of John F. Kennedy grow. Here was a president who initiated no impressive programs, was less than notably courageous in coming to the aid of civil-rights workers in the South, got the nation enmeshed in one of the most unpopular wars in our history (Vietnam), and brought it to the edge of nuclear war in a probably unnecessary war of nerves with Nikita Khrushchev over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In short, John F. Kennedy was a president who, based on the decisions he made or didn't have the courage to make while in office, deserves to go down as one of the resoundingly mediocre figures in American presidential history. ” In case you don't subscribe ti the W$J, I've captured the full essence of it HERE.