Those of you born from the mid 1960's onward grew up hearing of a President that I absolutely idolized. He was a war hero, a writer, and for all appearances a great man. Lately its become fashionable to discredit him, because of allegations of adultery, or scandalous behavior...it was a different time, and following his assassination, his fame was immortalized.
Now we embark in a new decade in a new century with a government seemingly adrift, with executive power siezed by the legislative third of our government, and the executive office occupied not by a leader of the free people, but a national salesman, apologist and lapdog to the powerful.
Please watch this and then try to compare the President I was so fond of, perhaps the last great Democratic President...JFK
It was a different time ideed...
You may be interested in reading my blog post, "Death of a Nation" located at http://secretcorners.net/weblog/blogs/index.php/2009/03/04/death-of-a-nation . I am not claiming it is perfect, but it does point out some interesting facts. Yes, it has become fashionable of late to discredit John F Kennedy. We know he was not perfect; no human is, but I believe JFK cared deeply for the United States of America and overall worked for the good of its citizens. John's brother Bobby would have followed in his footsteps if he had been allowed to do so.
ReplyDeleteI think the notion of giving up national sovereignty for international "cooperation" would have been anathema to JFK and Bobbie."
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