Froma Harrop of the Providence Journal is one of the better liberal columnists writing today. And she just about lost her lunch over the Kennedy Obamafest earlier this week. Excerpt:
JFK was indeed a charismatic figure, but the more we learn about his Camelot in Washington, the less perfect it sounds. (One might start at the 1960 election, which was stolen with an assist by the mob.) Daughter Caroline was adorable, but could someone please explain her cosmic significance today?The career of dynasty elder, Ted Kennedy, meanwhile, is headed for a disgraceful end. The Massachusetts senator has been caught in a sneaky plot to kill a clean-energy project in Nantucket Sound. Seems he doesn't want to see wind turbines from his waterfront estate. "Don't you realize -- that's where I sail!" he famously said.
The heck with his constituents, who live with some of the foulest coal-burning plants in the country. The heck with the United States, trying to free itself from foreign oil. The heck with the planet, threatened by global warming. Environmentalists now boo at the Kennedy name -- not that many in the media have noticed.
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Even the left handed ones Max? Sure sign of the liberal elite is being left handed.
Peter: at least one female ballet dancer was the subject of controversy in the UK for voicing her support of the neo-Nazi British National Party. Not sure if one can draw any meaningful conclusions about female ballet dancers as a whole from that, though.
"One might start at the 1960 election, which was stolen with an assist by the mob."
Let's put this old urban myth to bed once and for all, shall we? Assuming for the sake of argument that the allegations against Richard Daily and the Chicago machine are correct in every detail and that the Illinois electoral votes were stolen from Nixon, it would have reduced Kennedy's electoral total from 303 to 276, well above the 218 needed for election. And no tale told has the number of votes stolen exceed the 120K Kennedy margin in the popular vote, an irrelevancy that Bush underscored in 2000.
Well, it's not Ron Reagan, but the same concept, the passing-of-the-torch-from-a-Republican-conservative-to-Obama:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102621.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
And to those who say Susan Eisenhower isn't a conservative, I can only ask: How do you know? After all, the Republican in the White House calls himself a conservative and an heir to Ronald Reagan. Almost no one believes him -- even among dyed-in-the-wool right-wingers. So what right does the GOP have to judge the conservatism of others, if it has proven inable to correctly assess the lack of conservatism of its own?
"Even the left handed ones Max? Sure sign of the liberal elite is being left handed."
Left handed? Hmmmm...I don't know about that one. Ambidexterous is okay though.
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