While I was very young, I remember JFK.

Obama is no JFK.

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James, can I clear a few things up for you? The Indonesian/Kenyan Affirmative Action Pseudo Constitutional Scholar that is now the Pretender in Chief is a Racist. a Socialist and an New Era Elitist that has no significant Legislative experience and is a one hell of a used car salesman. Grifter Extraordinaire, a product of a Kenyan Communist, a dumb Slut from Kansas and has no traditional American values because He is not American. An opportunist, Yes. An American, NO.

Having a Socialist Agenda driven America Hating President in Office that will destroy Banks and Industries here is not a real Asset. He is a Fraud and a product that well marketed but has no money back guarantee. We Wuz Had!

If I was recalled to Active Duty tomorrow, I would refuse to serve and take no orders from the Pretender. Folks that make a career of wiping their filthy backsides on America will not get my Loyalty or Respect nor Command me or send me anywhere.

Obama was a mistake that the next three generations of Americans will pay for dearly.

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MataHarley,

We’ll leave the disagreement on history for later debate, however, on the current and present danger, there is no disagreement.

Anyone I’ve ever known who bordered on the narcissistic, would never admit to, “not knowing,” or “being uninformed,” or to ever learning from someone else. The impact of having a president who will not inform himself of what he does not know, is that the most powerful individuals manipulating finance are allowed to run amuck as they see fit.

Obama doesn’t even understand what questions to ask that would provide him insight into what they are up to. Some of his comments, for example, suggest that he actually believes the stock markets are NOT “managed.”

How can he possibly ask any of the right questions on the most important aspects of his responsibilities? He just can’t. … And people like Chris Matthews, or Brian Williams, don’t understand either, so the tingling legs feel great, and all is well with the world, until the invoice comes.

I also believe that his machinery has very effectively instilled Fear into many key players of the media. He’s done a great job of using fear against the taxpayers and heads of corporations. It’s working for him.

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James, INRE your comment of Jackie O:

“Taking control of history” is a very “nice” way to put it, particularly since she is no longer here to answer questions. I believe she was very, very focused on never being broke. This also speaks to the peculiar deal she made with her second husband, although that goes more to the inheritance she wished to leave to her children.

Ms. O was never in need of cash. Her attraction and benefits from Onassis were privacy for herself and her children. It was her prime obsession, and something she could not have found during Caroline and John’s childhood here in the States.

And I, personally, can place no fault or criticism towards a widow who fiercely guards her young ones for as long as possible, and who dedicates herself to insuring a glowing legacy for her slain husband at such a young age.

JFK, unlike his Zero’ship, had a legacy already in the making… a genuine and humble war hero, 7 years in the House and 7 more in the Senate. Tho the nation was excited about a youthful leader and elegant First Lady, Kennedy’s “legacy” came after his death… not, like Obama with no notable accomplishments, upon commencement of his candidacy.

I guess one might label this the media’s version of “an affirmative action Camelot…” a threshold lowered to meet one who’s deeds are still merely words and the repercussions of his domestic and foreign policy have yet to be seen… all “legacies” lowering the bar because of race.

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Despite the US interest in monarchy – particularly the British monarchy – it clearly doesn’t want to go back to having a King or Queen (for good reason). However in the UK – we see the prefect media-friendly photoshoped family style that was displayed by Kennedy and other presidents since him as being…well…Presidental. Although the royal family has attempted to update itself several times during history with varying degrees of success (particularly since the start of the 80s with Princess Di) to become more media-savvy but it still has more distance from it’s ‘subjects’ than US Presidents have with it’s citizens. I think ‘some’ Americans might get confused with monarchy as somehow being like a Disney’s ‘The Princess Diaries’. Remember Camelot is also a myth. Remember with a Monarch you are stuck with them for life…would you want Nixon, Clinton, Bush or Obama as head of state for 60+ years??!

About the only benefit with having a Queen is that I got a public holiday for one of her birthdays. Bizarrely Australia has this as a public holiday whilst the UK doesn’t.

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@James

They hear his speech in Egypt, and miss important and telling signs like the fact that he actually does not speak as PRESIDENT of AMERICA, if you listen, you notice that he is speaking FOR HIMSELF throughout with “I,””I,””I,””I,”. That is not only a sign of ingrained narcissism, it is disrespectful to ALL Americans, including those who idolize him.

Doing a quick check – in Reagan’s 1980 Inaugural Address he said ‘I’ nineteen times compared only to Obama’s three ‘I’s in his Inaugural Address.

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Robbins Mitchell,

Listening to people like Chris Matthews, you wonder if the MSM is actually listening to WHAT Obama actually says.

They hear his speech in Egypt, and miss important and telling signs like the fact that he actually does not speak as PRESIDENT of AMERICA, if you listen, you notice that he is speaking FOR HIMSELF throughout with “I,”"I,”"I,”"I,”. That is not only a sign of ingrained narcissism, it is disrespectful to ALL Americans, including those who idolize him.

It is also disgusting that while in Egypt, he Blames the previous administration …. for Anything. He can whine all he wants while on American soil, however, it is absolutely not right under any circumstances, for him blame his predecessor while he is in Europe, and definitely not while he is just a short flight from Teheran.

Why is none of the MSM on his case for this? Is America happy with an Obama mandated and administered catharsis?

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pdill,

Thanks for the note and quotation. “Taking control of history” is a very “nice” way to put it, particularly since she is no longer here to answer questions. I believe she was very, very focussed on never being broke. This also speaks to the peculiar deal she made with her second husband, although that goes more to the inheritance she wished to leave to her children.

You will find that the Life Magazine side of the deal, (a very corporate deal), was unusual given that Jack was President, and ALL media should have been provided the insight. The company at the time was too powerful for anyone to question their ethics or anything else they did for that matter.

BTW, the Life Magazine “access” started while JFK was IN the White House, not at his death.

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We don’t need no stinking monarch .. when we got a “sort of a God”

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Interesting article James. I wonder how many Americans are aware of the fact that it was Jackie Kennedy, with the help of journalist friend White, who actually “marketed” the Kennedy/Camelot legacy, after the death of JFK.

A year after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ death of cancer
at 64, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston made public Mr.
White’s notes [see next article] from that Nov. 29, 1963, interview
in which the romantic Camelot myth–one that would
remain fixed in the public’s mind despite ensuing revelations of
chinks in the Kennedy armor — was born.

The newly released papers include Mr. White’s handwritten
notes from the interview and the typed manuscript of the
essay — with editing marks by Mrs. Kennedy — that appeared in
the Dec. 6, 1963, issue of LIFE. The writer donated the papers to
the Kennedy Library in 1969, stipulating that they remain sealed
until one year after her death. Called the “Camelot documents,”
they offer another small piece of the puzzle — another glimpse
into the mind and soul of a private woman who, even in death,
has remained a source of endless fascination and mystery to so
many.

Perhaps most important, the papers reveal the extent to
which the sad, wan, yet tearless widow had a hand in shaping
the extraordinary Kennedy legacy. “She certainly wanted to take
control of history…

[…]

Much of the substance of the Camelot interview appeared
in the LIFE essay, “For President Kennedy: An Epilogue.”

I don’t discount that we all love “magic and fairytales”, self included. People of faith understand that such “yeaning” is simply the yearning for God, for authority, and most of all, for a savior, (knowingly or unknowingly). It makes sense that more Hollywood types and “intellectuals” from the left have made Obama into a deity.

Common sense and a realistic look back in history can easily remind us all that in no time in the history of man, has anyone been saved by a “political savior”, despite a plethora of false hopes and certitude; Obama being no exception!

As for Camelot, hey, we already know, “It will never be that way again”, even Jackie O said so!

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