In 2008 It's Ronald Reagan vs. Bobby Kennedy

[The_Elucidator]

In 2008 It's Ronald Reagan vs. Bobby Kennedy

Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007 By WILLIAM KRISTOL (http://javascript<b></b>:void(0))

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For major political parties, which outlive their individual leaders and partisans, the past is never dead. It's not even past. That's especially evident when those parties look to the future. As Republicans and Democrats focus on November 2008, it's clear each of them yearns to nominate a second coming of its beau ideal, the figure it has most admired in recent decades. For Republicans, that's Ronald Reagan. For Democrats, it's Robert Kennedy.

Reagan is the more obvious case. In the pantheon of modern Republican heroes, he stands alone. The G.O.P. has produced seven Presidents in the past 70 years. But I'd bet that in the stump speeches of today's G.O.P. contenders, Reagan is cited, invoked and appealed to more than the other six combined. As he should be. As President (so Republicans tell it), he got the economy going again, restored American confidence and won the cold war. As a Republican, he both sharpened the party's message and broadened its appeal. He won two landslide elections and then — a unique achievement in the past hundred years — was sufficiently popular at the end of his term that his Vice President was elected to succeed him.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1604561,00.html

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Perhaps in October, when Thompson and Obama stand across the stage from each other, the hopes and dreams of both parties riding on their shoulders, we'll come close.

We shall see... We shall see!

[BuckeyeMike]

Osama=Bobby Kennedy? Gimme a friggin' break! Bobby Kennedy was an asshole, but he can't, even in the broadest imagination, be likened to this Obama slime!

[noncom]

Bobby Kennedy vs. Ronald Reagan —— it's the grand matchup we were denied. They debated once, mostly about Vietnam, on a 1967 CBS telecast that featured Reagan in Sacramento, Calif., and Kennedy in New York City answering questions from students in London. (It was generally agreed that Reagan bested Kennedy, who asked afterward, "Who the f___ got me into this?")
I guess Obama and Bobby Kennedy were both "clean and articulate." But what else do they have in common? They are both airheads: I've never heard anyone quote either one.

Bobby Kennedy's epitaph was from his "Day of Affirmation" speech: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...." Barack Obama wrote an entire BOOK with the title "The Audacity of Hope" (Whatever the Hell that is supposed to mean.)

Unless Republicans nominate a candidate who comes out foursquare against justice and hope, I don't think we have a lot to worry about from B. Hussein Obama. But then again neither will Hillary Clinton; she'll eat that lightweight for breakfast. He has no stance on any issue that will garner any constituency, so the slightest scandal will pop his hope-filled bubble of goodwill in an instant.

And how hard will that scandal be to manufacture? For crying out loud the guy's middle name is HUSSEIN! And even aside from all the obvious stuff, I think it's safe to assume that Hillary Clinton has a lot more filth waiting under her skirt that nobody else knows about.