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02-05-2008, 08:04 AM
Camelot or Cesspool?
By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder (editor@spectator.org)
Published 2/5/2008 12:07:06 AM
The Kennedys recently endorsed Barack Obama, and Teddy Kennedy drew a parallel with President Kennedy -- a vision of a new Camelot rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Bush administration. Either he was addressing the largest group of amnesiacs ever gathered in one place in history or the media and much of America have been eating funny mushrooms and are in the throes of a mass delusion.
Back to reality: The late President Kennedy bears responsibility for the initiation of one of the bleakest episodes in modern American history -- the Vietnam War. Only because Khrushchev had more common sense than he did, we avoided an enormous catastrophe. After the fall of the Soviet Union, when the Russians' secret files were opened, we learned, among other bits of knowledge, such as that the Rosenbergs were indeed Russian atomic spies, that there were functioning, deployed, short and mid-range atomic missiles in Cuba. If we ever, as threatened, tried to land troops directly after the Bay of Pigs debacle on Cuban shores, our troops would have been slaughtered -- one missile, thousands of Americans annihilated. This is all not to mention that the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs was authorized by President Kennedy himself, and then he hung the Cuban patriots out to dry by withholding promised air support.
[SNIP]
This, of course, brings us to the present Bloviator-in-Chief Teddy Kennedy. It would be easy to write him off as another senatorial windbag. But he bears a distinction born by no other Senator. He has killed someone -- and not while serving as a member of the armed forces. After a drunken party, he drove off a bridge and left his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne alone to drown to death, trapped in his car.
The Article: (http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12689)
By Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder (editor@spectator.org)
Published 2/5/2008 12:07:06 AM
The Kennedys recently endorsed Barack Obama, and Teddy Kennedy drew a parallel with President Kennedy -- a vision of a new Camelot rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Bush administration. Either he was addressing the largest group of amnesiacs ever gathered in one place in history or the media and much of America have been eating funny mushrooms and are in the throes of a mass delusion.
Back to reality: The late President Kennedy bears responsibility for the initiation of one of the bleakest episodes in modern American history -- the Vietnam War. Only because Khrushchev had more common sense than he did, we avoided an enormous catastrophe. After the fall of the Soviet Union, when the Russians' secret files were opened, we learned, among other bits of knowledge, such as that the Rosenbergs were indeed Russian atomic spies, that there were functioning, deployed, short and mid-range atomic missiles in Cuba. If we ever, as threatened, tried to land troops directly after the Bay of Pigs debacle on Cuban shores, our troops would have been slaughtered -- one missile, thousands of Americans annihilated. This is all not to mention that the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs was authorized by President Kennedy himself, and then he hung the Cuban patriots out to dry by withholding promised air support.
[SNIP]
This, of course, brings us to the present Bloviator-in-Chief Teddy Kennedy. It would be easy to write him off as another senatorial windbag. But he bears a distinction born by no other Senator. He has killed someone -- and not while serving as a member of the armed forces. After a drunken party, he drove off a bridge and left his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne alone to drown to death, trapped in his car.
The Article: (http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12689)