Really I just don't see the connection. Obama is a socialist.
No. He's not.
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Really I just don't see the connection. Obama is a socialist.
Huh, really?
Did you learn this at a cocktail party on Martha's Vineyard?
I have to agree with him on this, he never really seemed to be to interested in running for anything and only had a vague interest in it for his magazine. Plus if you are father and uncle had both been shot one when he was president and the other while running don't you think you would not want to get into the game.
good one.
the part about jackie I saw in a biography. I think it would have been difficult to go his entire life without getting into politics in some form or another. I would think it would be tough to be the son of JFK, though.
Well that's damn nice of ya David !!! I'm glad to hear you are on the side of not killing presidential candidates.
that's a good point. I didn't even think about the "curse"
Really I just don't see the connection. Obama is a socialist.
I guess you could consider JFK a socialist too, then. Income taxes were 70% when JFK was president. That would make Obama look like a saint.
yes, but he lowered them from 90%.
JFK wanted to lower taxes not raise them
Can it be said, that if John F. Kennedy Jr. was alive right now, that he could be standing in the exact spot Barack Obama is? Barack Obama is 48. JFK jr. would have been 48. JFK jr. could've easily ran for a Senate seat in 2003 and won on name-recogniton alone. He would 've beaten Hillary too. If she, or anyone for that matter, was crazy enough to run against him. Imagine having a Kennedy back in the White House. Obama is the closest will probably get. And so far, thats fine with me. My point is that the universe tends to correct itself. Having been robbed of a potentially great leader, who's leniage speaks for itself, it seems we have a second chance at such a leader.
yes, but he lowered them from 90%.
JFK wanted to lower taxes not raise them
Obama is NOT JFK jr....Obama is an opportunist...A chameleon, who will do or say anything to get power.Can it be said, that if John F. Kennedy Jr. was alive right now, that he could be standing in the exact spot Barack Obama is? Barack Obama is 48. JFK jr. would have been 48. JFK jr. could've easily ran for a Senate seat in 2003 and won on name-recogniton alone. He would 've beaten Hillary too. If she, or anyone for that matter, was crazy enough to run against him. Imagine having a Kennedy back in the White House. Obama is the closest will probably get. And so far, thats fine with me. My point is that the universe tends to correct itself. Having been robbed of a potentially great leader, who's leniage speaks for itself, it seems we have a second chance at such a leader.
I don't believe Jon Jon ever had any intention of running for president. He never voiced a particular interest in it, except as a journalist.
The huge difference between Obama and JFK is, of course, their families. Obama doesn't have a huge tight knit, wealthy and ambitious family. At least not in this country. Obama doesn't have a brother named Robert.
However they are alike in that they both seem to enjoy stealing elections.
Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.
Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. New and more terrible weapons are coming into use.
One-third of the world may be free, but one-third is the victim of a cruel repression, and the other third is rocked by poverty and hunger and disease. Communist influence has penetrated into Asia; it stands in the Middle East; and now festers some ninety miles off the coast of Florida. Friends have slipped into neutrality and neutrals have slipped into hostility. As our keynoter reminded us, the President who began his career by going to Korea ends it by staying away from Japan.
The world has been close to war before, but now man, who's survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate his species seven times over.
Here at home the future is equally revolutionary. The New Deal and the Fair Deal were bold measures for their generations, but now this is a new generation.
A technological output and explosion on the farm has led to an output explosion. An urban population revolution has overcrowded our schools and cluttered our cities and crowded our slums.
A peaceful revolution for human rights, demanding an end to racial discrimination in all parts of our community life, has strained at the leashes imposed by a timid executive leadership.
It is time, in short -- It is time, in short for a new generation of leadership. All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power, men who are not bound by the traditions of the past, men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and the old delusions.
John F. Kennedy
Can a nation organized and governed such as ours endure?
That is the real question.
Have we the nerve and the will? Can we carry through in an age where we will witness not only new breakthroughs in weapons of destruction, but also a race for mastery of the sky and the rain, the ocean and the tides, the far side of space, and the inside of men's minds?
John F. Kennedy
American Rhetoric: John F. Kennedy -- 1960 Democratic National Convention Address
It's hard to say with any great confidence what JFK Jr. would have done. While his death was tragic and the death of his wife and his sister in law equally so, JFK Jr. was more into his magazine "GEORGE" than local politics. However, it can be said that he was tracking towards that direction with his law degree and position as an ADA. We will never know. As for his father, his father was a visionary in many ways and inspired people thats very true. In a political sense though, he was IMHO very hawkish on defense matters and was fiscally conservative. To counter that though , he was quite liberal on some social issues like poverty and and hunger and was most especially a champion of civil rights. With all that said, I would liken JFK more as a Centerist democrat in the old style or a moderate republican in todays world. The only comparison to Barack Obama and JFK while not in policy most especially, would be in the inspirational areas and some social issues such as the peace corps, and world hunger issues. However from a a policy standpoint these two men could not be more different.