Now that the Kennedy's have endorsed Barack Obama, and anointed him as the second coming of JFK, do we really want and need another Kennedy look alike?
Many are comparing the two coming from the same mold. No experience and great orators. Having lived through those years, my visions of history, differ quite diffrently from those that portray this era as the time of milk and honey.
The Bay of Pigs, escalation of the Vietnam war, Berlin Wall and how close we came to a nuclear war, always seem forgotten.
Rather we are fed a steady diet, of what is now refered to as the first and only American Royal Family. Yes it was Camelot, as the masses relished in watching the Kennedy clan frolic with the rich and famous. It was a great time for THEM.
I along with millions of other American citizens, must of had those invitations, lost in the mail. You know the ones, promising us a full share of these American dreams. Salaries, that would ensure only one spouse working, a college education for our kids and not worrying about catastrophic medical bills.
Slogans and chants, along with hand clapping might get the morons all enthusiastic. But there are some of us that can think, and want more then all this well packaged bullshit. No wonder the politicians have that patented smile; it keeps them from a full blown laugh at how easily the garbage they feed us is swallowed.
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Uh-oh, Pelmo's painting a target on the ass of a sacred cow.
True, though. I didn't live through that time -- but having read about it in a couple of books without pictures -- I always wondered why no one ever noticed the monster swimming around in the moat that surrounded Camelot. (Bay of Pigs, nuclear standoff with the Soviets, etc.)
Nice job.
We need more then promises,fancy slogans and speeches to get us out of this huge mess we are in.
The Kennedy era looks great the same way a lot of people have fond memories of their childhood. If Mom and Dad and the President are doing a good job, little Joe gets protected from hearing/seeing the bad crap that Mom and Dad and the President shelters him from. But, when Dad's head gets blown off, or the President lies and invades another country, it's no longer good-memory territory.
I think so much of the Camelot BS stems from the amount of truth that was hidden from Americans. And today we laugh about how the media hid JFK's affair with Marilyn Monroe, and how it's different today...yeah, it's different. Today the media spills the beans on affairs, but covers for the President when he lies about entire wars. Someday people may look back and laugh at how the media painted us a utopia while the world crumbled. Maybe that's what Dubya's thoughts are when he talks about his historical legacy turning to gold fifty years from now.
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