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 What It Was Like to Be John F. KennedyPosted on Jan 18, 2011
Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. He gave a stirring inaugural address and then took over a job for which he was unprepared. No one is ever prepared. The presidency is essentially a reactive job, with a man standing alone facing crises unforeseen.
As good as Kennedy’s inaugural was, the speeches that define him historically were given within just over 50 hours in June 1963, one of them prepared secretly over months, the other practically ad-libbed.
This is the story of those hours and those speeches:
At 9:15 a.m., June 10, President Kennedy arrived in Washington from a trip to Hawaii for a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. On the way home he had stopped in San Francisco to pick up his principal speechwriter, Theodore Sorensen, and they spent the flight making final edits in what was called "the peace speech," an effort known to only a few men.
Kennedy, whose back was in pain, stopped at the White House for a short, steaming bath, then rode out to American University, where he gave the speech at 10:15 a.m. He said: "Some say it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or world disarmament. ... But I believe we should re-examine ... our own attitude ... toward the Soviet Union. ... For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal."
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But by then, Kennedy had learned that the governor of Alabama, George C. Wallace, had taken over the state university and was standing at its main gateway with armed guards to block the entrance of the school’s first two Negro students—defying a federal court order to admit James Hood and Vivian Malone. That was also when he learned that a Vietnamese Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc had burned himself to death in the main intersection of Saigon—in protest of the oppression of the American-imposed government of South Vietnam.
Against the advice of his advisers, Kennedy decided to go on television to talk about Alabama and race. He had avoided that because he was caught in the middle between white Southerners, Democrats, who controlled the Congress, and Negro Democratic voters who adored the new president.
Speaking often from only notes—or no notes at all—this is what he said:
"This is not a sectional issue. ... Nor is this a partisan issue. ... This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. ... We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. ... If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public schools available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him ... then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed?"
The leader of a great democracy had chosen the minority over the majority. No small thing.
The speech seemed so powerful to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi that he called his wife to tell her to keep their children up late. He wanted to drive home and talk to them about what had just happened. As he got out of the car, he was shot from bushes across the street. Medgar Evers bled to death in front of his wife and children.
That is what it is like to be president. That is what it was like to be John Kennedy.
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By Martin Timothy, February 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm Link to this comment
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The Moorman Polaroid shows two snipers nests on the Grassy Knoll, and identifies numerous muzzle flashes behind the picket fence left screen, with E Howard Hunt firing on the President, and Martin Luther and Coretta King to his right.
The “Badgeman” enhancement, shows Dallas Police officer Joe Smith firing from behind the rotunda wall, alongside Gordon H Arnold talking on a hand held radio, with an unidentified bald guy, and deaf mute Ed Hoffman and his missus to? his left!
Report thisBy Mr. Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan, January 24, 2011 at 9:13 am Link to this comment
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It is hard to guess what Kennedy administration would have pursued if he were able to complete two consecutive terms.But the general comfortable posture of non Muslim population as to Muslim population due to cultural stereotyping that is in place and upon which the Political Paunditry rely upon to sharpen their arguments for State of Israel would have been absent on Human Rights and National determination Issue as well as the Church long held cations and attitude as to upsetting the status co in the Arab Lands that in view of some Noe Conservatives were unproductive perhaps because the segregation in its subtlest form do persist among American People no matter how residual it is.Kennedy would have worked to eliminate segregation’ subtlest manifestations that are proved in subsequent years’ after Kennedy Presidency growth and development in US Politics and Society.Thanks.Mr. Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan aka Zamil Khan[Muhammad Khan’92,HSPH]
Report thisBy kerryrose, January 21, 2011 at 5:13 pm Link to this comment
berniem
Your objectivity leads you to uncharted territory.
Report thisBy Justin, January 21, 2011 at 11:13 am Link to this comment
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Very impressed with mitchen22’s post. He gets it right. Rather than stake dubious claims, he forgoes opinions and instead, throws his weight around as a historian driven by facts. Hats off to you sir.
Report thisBy ChaviztaKing, January 21, 2011 at 1:22 am Link to this comment
THE CAUSE OF LACK OF REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT IS THAT THE INTERNET AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY IS TURNING AMERICAN MALES INTO A SOCIETY OF AFEMINATE WEAK JUSTIN BEIBERS LOW IN TESTORONE, LOW IN ANGER, LOW IN RAGE, LOW IN WILL POWER, LOW IN ENVY, AND LOW IN REVENGE-EMOTIONS.
THAT’S RIGHT ENVY AND REVENGE ARE REVOLUTIONARY PASSIONS.
THE TECHNOLOGICAL CYBER-REVOLUTION IS DESTROYING THE WILL POWER, TESTOSTERONE LEVELS, MANLY VIRTUES AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH OF AMERICAN MALES
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm
the philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche said that the most important things for a nation are the body, the diet and the physiology. And every thing else comes as consequence. And that’s why the greeks knew what they had to do and they did it. In this modern, industrial society of the spetacle, the body, the diet and the physiology are not important anymore. But as we can read in the book The Geneology of Morals only those superior men with superior physical strength will be able to be the caste of lords to rule the world:
“The knightly-aristocratic judgments of value have as their basic trait a powerful muscular body, a blooming, rich, even overflowing health, together with those things required to maintain these qualities: war, adventure, hunting, dancing, war games, and, in general, everything which involves strong, free, happy action.” -On The Genealogy of Morals. F. Nietzsche
Lift weights for the revolution.
“Arnold Shwarzenegger was correct when he claimed that this modern society of lap tops, playstations, nintendos, xbox, computers, ipods, cell phones is turning american males into girly, soft afeminate, muscularly weak men, low in testosterone levels, low in dopaminergic drive, emotionally weak, unaroused, unable to have the necessary muscular strength, will power, agressiveness, desire, drive, anger, violence and manhood that are necessary for any revolution, popular uprising, rebellion and changes that the world demands.” -Joe Bageant, Political Writter
Report thisBy ChaviztaKing, January 21, 2011 at 12:40 am Link to this comment
HI FRT AGAIN, HOW ARE YOU? I don’t have much time right now, but i would like to just say that one of the main impediments for US citizens liberating themselves from their capitalist oligarchic oppressors is an excess of work, and chores. Most humans are the same really, and what dictates their behaviour is their lifestyle. And i believe that the american lifestyle is too hyperactive and too exhausting, and that is what really makes people politically apathetic. An excess of work and chores
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Report thisBy Mike Wolfe, January 20, 2011 at 11:23 pm Link to this comment
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JFK was the first president I voted for and I admired him greatly at the time. And it is clear with what we know now, that he avoided WW-III in his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
But I just read his chapter in Nigel Hamilton’s “American Caesars” and it left me gobsmacked about his relationship with women. I knew he had his father’s taste for womanizing and had heard of Exner and some others. But I had no idea how totally out of control he was, from Fiddle and Faddle on staff to uncountable hundreds more. Bill Clinton is chaste by comparison!
Report thisBy Robespierre115, January 20, 2011 at 6:55 pm Link to this comment
@john mag, Kennedy didn’t back Israel’s ambitions much because Israel hadn’t proven to be a valuable asset in the region yet. The kind of military support we see today for Israel really started after the 1967 war when Israel proved it could be a nice Western base in the region to smash Arab nationalism. Kennedy might have drawn the same conclusion if he had lived.
Report thisBy john mag, January 20, 2011 at 12:45 pm Link to this comment
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There is a “gorilla” in the room folks…....why no
Report thismention of JFK`s effort to reel in a certain terrorist
mid east country and prevent their nuclear ambitions
from being realized.. Read mike pipers “final judgment”
if you want to know more. Amazon has some info on it
By Paco, January 20, 2011 at 9:40 am Link to this comment
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berniem notes that:
When one looks at it objectively, there is little difference between the history of the Kennedy clan and the Bushes.
Yes, this is true, much as there is little difference between humans and rats.
Report thisBy Nixon is Lord, January 20, 2011 at 6:07 am Link to this comment
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Anyone stupid enough to week for Kennedy probably believes that his brother Ted never drank and didn’t know Mary Jo was in the back seat.
Report thisThe Left has JFK and RFK; the Right Reagan. Pitiful need for heroes!
Odd that “progressives” should want elected monarchies, but then many “progressives” have a belief in majority rule at least as selective as the Fundiegelicals when votes come up over abortion and “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
You deserve each other.
By FRTothus, January 20, 2011 at 12:19 am Link to this comment
ChaviztaKing, I’m so terribly afraid that you are
correct; they will call him a Caesar, and assassinate
him nonetheless. I’m afraid that this is what Benj.
Franklin meant when he said that there is no other
way. I think the two of you agree, and, again, I’m
very afraid that you are right, for all the police
powers Congress has abdicated, not to mention the
Supreme Law of the law, flawed though it was.
I am frightened for this country, we having been led
by fools and liars for so long, “educated” for so
long, advertised to for so long. We are not taught
history, do not read, are trained to be Obedient
Workers, trained to be expert in selling ourselves.
It’s disgusting, how we rip each other off to
“survive”. I never understood what there really was
for the US to be afraid of. The Cold War was our lie.
They talked like it was true all the time, but it
never was. Today’s press is the same, then and now,
being run for the particular benefit of business
advertising, and whatever it takes to make it to the
status of “news” to get squeezed in there among those
ads, defines what that “news” is. It’s a pity that
we do not have lawyers as reporters, when reporters
would make fine lawyers representing the mafia, who
would dutifully report the copy they were sent, cast
nefarious deeds in the very best light possible.
Lawyers would have to abide by the rules of evidence.
Quite a different undertaking. The press doesn’t do
that. That’s not their “job”. Editors are Obedient
Workers. The press is a kept press, quite ‘polite’
in their faux ‘objectivity’, never taking labor’s
side in any issue, never on the protesters side,
never on the side of democracy, because democracy
doesn’t pay their bills, the truth doesn’t pay their
bills.
Kings need subjects to do their work, slave-masters
need slaves. Are we a good slave? Do we get to
sleep inside tonight? Do we get to stay in the
Master’s house? We are many, they are few. When the
slaves revolt… Look at Tunisia.
While we think of Kennedy and lament or criticize,
the fact is we needed a New Deal 50 years ago, but
today we got Hoover and the appeasement of the
wealthy - again - instead, the paying of the bad bets
of the idle, scheming rich made whole with the
promise of OUR money for generations yet to come, and
the Congress applauds. No one says a word. The Rule
of Law, right to trial? Good luck.
Now we learn that the mandate of the the fraudulent
FED is changing No longer “to promote employment”
(as if) which for the FED meant keeping a good number
of people out of work to keep wages down - their real
mandate. With the War of Terror, though, the false
reasons are stripped away, and it’s the same old
bully, now with an unsmiling face. They’ve already
begun treating us like they’ve done foreigners for
ages.
The Congress abdicated that which it had no right to
sign away with the FED, just as it passes laws that
the Constitutions says it ought not pass, but then
everything and most everyone is for sale in the USA.
Fact is, the FED was established to STOP these booms
and busts, if you can believe it. And it doesn’t
take much of that history not taught in school to see
that it’s been nothing but greater bubbles and
greater collapses, and every time, the same bailouts
to the wealthy, since the fraud of 1914.
The continued military spending, the standing army,
the mercenary armies worldwide, will bankrupt us
financially as it has already bankrupted our national
principals, but the price will, as ever with top-down
rule, be paid by the little guy if our current
leaders have their way. They will kill anyone who
gets in their way, and use the FBI to cover their
tracks. That’s what’s important abut JFK.
What is done to the least of us is done to me.
Report thisBy rollzone, January 19, 2011 at 10:01 pm Link to this comment
hello. people keep rewriting history to promote their
Report thisown agenda. pretending these hours define JFK, is a
monumental leap into spin. JFK was at moments
idealistic, during a very different global society,
than what we live in today. during this article’s
brief time frame, i believe JFK wanted the USSR to
have an opportunity to tear down their walls on their
own, and prove we were right in stopping short of
Moscow at the end of WWII. i believe he was reaching
for the commonality of humanity as a spiritual
bridge, to halt the expansionism of socialist
communism, and prevent an inevitable armed
confrontation between two superpowers. he made the
first steps, during absolute hostile animosities
between every citizen of both countries; and there
was little doubt that we would have -at some point
during the anticipated armed conflict: gone nuclear.
reflecting upon the life JFK led, and his immediate
influences; and reading both the comments here, and
this usury article, illustrates the harm being done
to our history on the minds of today’s citizens. what
our country has done in the cause of freedom, since
the end of WWII, should never be tarnished; even
though today we doubt we fight for freedoms and
liberties. in the short time of JFK, and for a
generation leading up to him: it was our way of life.
we can partly thank JFK that we live in better times.
By Robespierre115, January 19, 2011 at 8:03 pm Link to this comment
@mitchum22 Read Noam Chomsky’s “Rethinking Camelot,” read Chalmers Johnson’s “Blowback” trilogy, read “Empire’s Workshop” by Greg Grandin, the documented evidence shows Kennedy was never going to allow Communist insurgencies to win anywhere under his wach. Sure he attempted to set up alternatives, imperial stooges much like the “alternatives” the US tries to prop up today in the Middle East and Latin America. Kennedy was never going to allow a Lumumba succeed in Africa.
Interesting how Kennedy fans never address his activities in Latin America which were pretty atrocious. Please cite where Kennedy was working with brutal dictators like Somoza to “include” revolutionary movements into their governments. So Kennedy didn’t tighten the blockade on Cuba? Bobby wasn’t approving new operations against Castro even during the week his brother was killed? Kennedy isn’t documented as saying “the left can’t win” when it came to the Goulart government in Brazil? He didn’t approve secret bombings in Vietnam as proved by the Pentagon Papers?
Let’s be adults, the kiddies can stick with Douglass and Jim Marrs.
Report thisBy mitchum22, January 19, 2011 at 7:38 pm Link to this comment
And for fellow cliche DavidByron,
“Most war-like-for-no-reason-President ever”? (I put in the needed dashes for ya.)
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: what a maroon!
Kennedy refused United States troop involvement in Laos, a country in the exact same pre-revolutionary state as was Vietnam. In this case, Kennedy — who was pushed by his whole government to launch a troop involvement — instead helped set-up a coalition government including the leftist Pathet Lao. A coalition government which stood throughout the 1960s. No loss of US blood.
Bay of Pigs. Again, in the face of advice from his entire government, Kennedy refuses air cover/US invasion. No loss of US blood.
Berlin Wall goes up. Kennedy is advised to finally draw a line in the sand, to the point where US generals in Germany concoct a confrontation with the Soviets. Kennedy orders US forces pulled back. No confrontation. No loss of blood. Wall stands for 30 years.
Missile Crisis. Recommendations to JFK include everything from taking out the sites, invading the island, blowing up Soviet ships, and — from the always reasonable Joint Chiefs of Staff — launching a nuclear attack in Moscow. None of this happens. No one dies. (Except for the US pilot who was sacrificed in one of the National Security State’s attempt to sabotage Kennedy’s blockade.)
Indonesia. Kennedy sets up back channel to Sukarno, who is faced with a leftist threat similar to what was happening in Laos & South Vietnam. Kennedy and Sukarno begin plans to include the PKI in the Indonesian government. Then comes Dallas. 18 months later, Sukarno is overthrown and over one-million “leftists” are massacred.
Vietnam. Incredibly, in what is surely the most valuable and astonishing revelation in Sy Hersh’s otherwise scummy book, Kennedy sets up back-channel to North Vietnamese(!) government, with the knowledge of the Ngo brothers. No way this did not leak. Within months, the Ngos and Jack Kennedy are dead.
Africa. Again pushing back against virtually his entire national security state, Kennedy backs nationalist movements in Ghana, the Congo, the breakaway Portuguese colonies (primarily Angola). See Richard Mahoney’s “Ordeal in Africa.”
To not use force when all the force in the world is on your side — that is the mark of the true hero.
If only Uncle O. had such guts. . .
Report thisBy mitchum22, January 19, 2011 at 7:26 pm Link to this comment
Robespierre (and what a defamation of a great man’s name) is a leftoid-cliche dumbshit. (A “leftist” quoting the CIA stooge Tim Weiner! Well, I guess folks with bumper-sticker minds will go anywhere to get their disinformation.)
For those with real minds, the true history of JFK and Vietnam can be found here:
Gareth Porter’s “Perils of Dominance”
Howard Jones’s “Death of a Generation”
John Newman’s “JFK and Vietnam”
Fredrik Logevall’s “Choosing War”
Gordon Goldstein’s “Lessons in Disaster”
Ellen Hammer’s “A Death in November”
David Kaiser’s “American Tragedy”
Dan Ellsberg’s “Secrets”
ALL agree. He was getting out.
And regarding Brazil—haha. Again, those interested should read the Colby-Dennett masterpiece “Thy Will Be Done.”
And of course the great Jim Douglass’s “JFK and the Unspeakable.”
Report thisBy Robespierre115, January 19, 2011 at 5:21 pm Link to this comment
@Kennedy, so JFK was just some stupid infant who was being pushed around by generals and CIA suits? Come on now. Read Tim Wiener’s excellent work of scholarship on the CIA, “Legacy Of Ashes.” The documented evidence shows that Kennedy was very dedicated to the Vietnam war, he wanted to pull out soon IF US objectives (destroy the Vietnamese Revolution) were met etc. RFK ran the terrorist war against Cuba, the Kennedy brothers were quite obsessed with overthrowing Castro. Kennedy stopped the Bay Of Pigs when he realized the CIA was wrong about one thing: The Cuban people were not going to turn on the Revolution to aid the invasion.
Kennedy also personally approved plans for overthrowing Brazil’s center-left government, plans which were eventually carried out after his death in 1964.
Report thisBy Queenie, January 19, 2011 at 4:39 pm Link to this comment
Fifty years. I am 68. I remember, too. And I still weep.
Thank you, Mr Reeves, for your words.
Report thisBy berniem, January 19, 2011 at 4:38 pm Link to this comment
When one looks at it objectively, there is little difference between the history of the Kennedy clan and the Bushes!
Report thisBy NYCartist, January 19, 2011 at 3:08 pm Link to this comment
I am 7 0. I remember. http://www.jfklibrary.org
Report thisBy Mr. Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan, January 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm Link to this comment
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No America does not need “Superman”,quite contrary to that popular belief system that works in many shades and colors in our psyche as well as other peoples’ perception as to what an American and Americans are likely to give to others as “Nation” and in the unique search of Americans for their “Mastery” over planet Earth and the Space beyond what One really get interested in engaging speculations as to “Essential Attributes” of “American” National Origin and Identity.With that Query in mind,let me tell you what an American stands before my eyes:Not “Superman at all”,rather “Very Normal and Decent” and “Courageous but not Desperate” as well as “Determined ,but not Obstinate” and add to that “Sharp and Intelligent” but “Simple and not Conspiratorial” very much absorbed in “Interpretative Languages” of Other Peoples.This is An American in my perception knowing, that could be half of what we have in real ones,but the struggle and strife that comes with that is present in the search of earning"American” National Identity as either Gift from God or “earned ” with hard work and determination.And this is no Superman at all,just the opposite_the Neighbor on the Corner.Thanks.Mr.Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan,a.k.a. Zamil Khan{Muhammad Khan’92,HSPH]
Report thisBy Paul J. Theis, January 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm Link to this comment
Thanks for this history, Mr. Reeves. I believe the next president of the historical stature of Abraham Lincoln will be the president who is able to lead our nation—in the best interests of our nation—into a new era of the strengthened rule of international law. Not “One-World Government” (that bogeyman of the Right) but rather a stronger set of international norms to govern international finances, to avoid unnecessary wars, and perhaps to promote the self-determination of all peoples (as called for in the original UN Charter).
Report thisBy Kennedy, January 19, 2011 at 12:17 pm Link to this comment
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Oh Really? Robespierre, I seem to remember (because I was there!) That our “advisors” went in while Ike was President. Neither Jack or Bobbie were enamoured of Vietnam and wanted very badly to get OUT. The same goes for Bay of Pigs. He did NOT want it, and it was put together under Ike. The CIA KNEW it would flop without US military intervention which Jack stopped. This infuriated the MIC and their reps. The pressure for WWIII from some of these, especially LeMay and his bunch, was intense. Dr. Strangelove was a lot closer to the truth than anyone realises.
Report thisBy DavidByron, January 19, 2011 at 12:16 pm Link to this comment
Same JFK that essentially started the Vietnam war and nearly turned the entire world into a nuclear cinder because he wanted to prove his dick was bigger than the Soviets?
Worst president ever.
The idea of calling this guy a peace president (in any case surely an oxymoron)... what a joke. Most war like for no reason president ever.
Report thisBy Artsy, January 19, 2011 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
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JFK hated “secret societies” and he spoke openly about them. Before his death, he spoke to the American Newspaper Publisher’s Association about the threat they presented to our country. Now, this administration (and several previous ones too) have hired some of the Bilderberg Group’s highest ranking BANKSTER members. In other words, the enemy who owns the White House can also run it and our country by pushing Obama around.
It is my opinion that this same “secret society”( aka Bilderberg Group, aka New World Order) is also responsible for the planned criminal meltdown of our beloved country. Many already know this but most do not because people like this writer who are in the position to expose them are either afraid to tell the whole truth or willfully or actively hiding the reality by skirting it.
If for no other reason, listen to the Kennedy speech. It is the real deal. It gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes. We must all look closely to find the real truth in a fog of corporate media propaganda designed to keep us in the dark until they own our property, take total control of us, and destroy everything most Americans hold dear.
I love my country and there are 10’s of millions who do too. Why should NEVER allow a bunch of filthy rich, crazy, criminal power brokers run the biggest ponzi scheme in history, right under our noses - in plain sight! WAKE UP!!!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=642552841321950688#docid=1710662559138481080
Report thisBy Paco, January 19, 2011 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
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Surprise,... there is no Superman!
The “daddy” party is supposed to the the GOP, but it seems that there are many on the left who also think some superman/daddy figure can come in and save the day for us all. It’s not going to happen, but if it does it may not be someone who gets elected president.
Obama gets a lot of flack from the disappointed left. Certainly he is no Franklin Roosevelt and certainly he is not driving a revolutionary agenda. Then again he never said he would be. Many if not most of the unrealistic expectations for Obama’s presidency were figments of minds the adoring young who thought he would be their savior. Granted, Obama may have encouraged this thinking but what politician would not?
A president has significant power, but the president’s powers are limited. The President can try to steer a course for the country but that job is worse than steering the Titanic. Under even the most aggressive activist president, the bureaucracy and the other branches of government will dampen progress.
It may be unfortunate that Obama is not the most aggressive and activist President, but at least he is steering a course that is starboard of where the GOP would take it.
Report thisBy Mr. Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan, January 19, 2011 at 9:20 am Link to this comment
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One does live without those whom he cared and live with them without telling what to expect next when they do not see him as to their future and this living of Z.F.K Reminds people of America among other things that America is as powerful as it is also is vulnerable as any Big brother is to his younger ones for being considerate to others’ concerns and in that “Vulnerability” the USA “JFK” defended was modern and ready to shape many events in the World without knowing what it would foretell as to their future and their children future and unto their children.Americans only hope and still they do not give up “Hope” on humanism and common decency and on just arbitration of disputes among people and individual whereas keeping the “American Family “Intact”. ZFK still defends “American Family” from Arlington,Virginia.Thanks.Mr. Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan,a. k.a .a Zamil Khan[Muhammad Khan,‘92,HSPH]
Report thisBy Robespierre115, January 19, 2011 at 6:16 am Link to this comment
Kennedy was just another typical liberal imperialist. He waged a pretty violent terrorist war against Cuba, supported the most brutal regimes in Latin America and approved counterinsurgency experiments in the region later exported to Vietnam, which was a war he lit the fuse for. Read Noam Chomsky’s book “Rethinking Camelot.”
Report thisBy ChaviztaKing, January 19, 2011 at 3:13 am Link to this comment
Dear friends, the only solution for USA is The Superman. I am not joking, i don’t mean the superman of the movies, even though the superman of the movies is related to Nietzsche’s Superman.
I mean the theory of the Superman of the German Philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche. And it’s true, the USA requires superior individuals not regular individuals to save the country. Over-men, above the crowds, with superior qualities. I really do not see another solution, traditional Socialist Party rising to power would either be overthrown or its leader killed like JFK or Manuel Zelaya who was overthrown in Honduras. So USA requires an aristocratic revolutionary caste of superior aristocratic knights
So i have a homework for you all: Buy these books: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power by Fredrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist by Fredrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power by Fredrich Nietzsche and the biography of Che Guevara. And watch the movies: Braveheart, King Arthur, both Robin Hood movies (With Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe), and the 3 movies of Lord of The Rings.
I wrote an aristocratic code of honor to save USA:
The American Patriotic Honor should be based in that all US citizens who have committed themselves to defend the American Nation from the capitalists and Israel, should have these required traits: courage, bravery, and the physical muscular strength and that he is really devoted to defend the United States of America from the jewish-capitalists with his life, and never surrender the American Flag and the goal of socialism to which he swore.
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