Reply #148: Are you actually slamming JFK? [View All]

"I am a believer that Oswald did not act alone, but that he was taken out because he was about to reverse position on Vietnam and pull troops out."

And what a different world it would have been if he had. Your post seems to imply that JFK should not be honored or revered for the course he attempted to put America on finally. A course the was diverted by LBJ at the direction of the very people you, and quite a few others, believe assassinated JFK. Some believe LBJ himself knew and was a party to it.

Regardless of why he was assassinated, the point is he was. And LBJ served the very thing that Eisenhower warned us about that Kennedy refused to serve. The military-industrial complex - Democrats seem to forget for some reason that Halliburton enriched itself in Vietnam as a result of its ties to LBJ but also has enriched itself in Iraq as a result of its ties to George W Bush. Partisanship apparently blinds even the most intelligent of people to reality.

Ted Kennedy is many things. Not all good. But certainly not all bad. All that really matters in the end is that he has served his constituents well through the years as well as the American people. Both Republicans and Democrats. He has in great part been a single voice at times in the Senate. A voice of reason and balance.

He is really our sole voice of reason and balance at this point. Shame on a Democrat taking issue with him or his family. Shame on anyone really. Particularly anyone taking issue with his brother who again was a vision of a future that has yet to be realized.

"I think people are being swept up in nostalgia--many of them for a president they know nothing about from first hand experience."

For a president to continue to inspire a sense of renewed spirit in people who could find far more lucrative careers than the careers of public service they choose having been inspired by JFK to do so says quite about the man and the president and his legacy.

Shame on you. The Kennedys have spoken. The ones who matter. The two who matter.

Time to put the Democratic Party back on the course JFK put it on. It was diverted along with everything else in this country.