Please stop dragging the Palin girl into this.
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A thousand apologies to you Mr. Hal Briston. My name gets slaughtered regularly, and I know how I feel about it. I’m trying to be too quick, sneaking in here between sips of coffee and those bothersome tasks I’m paid to do.
However, I don’t see where I’ve misunderstood anything.
ME: JFK inspired people to join the Peace Corps.
HE: The Peace Corps was “fruity.”
ME: Others agree with me. Here are two examples.
What’s to misunderstand?
In any event, this isn’t worth the chaos it seems to have caused.
Let’s move on shall we?
You wrote Peach, not peace, that was what the joke was about.
Have a bit more coffee. 
Obama doesn’t have a soundtrack worthy of the name.
Yow. A triple whoosh (with half-nametwist and a double quotation, too)! A posting sequence worthy of Mark Spits…goin’ for the gold!
I’m sorry, Myself – if I thought you’d overlook the Peach/Peace mis-spelling again, I’d have pointed it out explicitly (the way Auntbeast did).
I was born in 1951. I remember the Kennedy mania. At the very least, nobody compared him to Jesus. On that point, Obamamania is worse.
But … but … the dude nailed Marilyn Freakin’ Monroe! What could be more magical and mystical than that?
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As my grandmother used to say to me, “Don’t worry, bambino, you’ll never be a complete failure. You can always serve as a bad example.”
My last post was sent obviously before…then he said…but I…aw, skip it.
I’ll just apologize to Digital Stimulus, 1001 times.
Thank you to Auntbeast for real iz ing that I need to ad dress ed in one (1) syl la ble words.
I will slink away now.
Making an Olympic quality fool of myself like this is…
the pits.
Have Obama supporters seriously compared him to Jesus? I thought all the messiah talk was an exaggeration, rather than a true characterization of the “fanaticism” over Obama.
I think in this era that kind of talk is far more accepted than it used to be? After all, it was 3 years after JFK that the Beatles caught crap for saying they were more popular than Jesus. We are far more liberal with blasphemous talk these days.
I was in high school during the Kennedy administration, and believe me, he wasn’t even close to being a “great” president. He made a lot of mistakes, and his style was more of a bully than an effective politician.
But if the substance was lacking, the style certainly wasn’t. He and Jackie brought class and culture to Washington, something that was totally lacking in former administations. And yeah, it was nice to have little kids in the White House too. Especially after Ike and Mamie.
I think our optimism for Obama is more warranted than whatever people felt for Kennedy. Obama is clearly “his own man,” not having been pushed into office by a rich father. And for once, we have a president with both style and substance. But of course he will not simply get his way all the time; there will be failures. And how he deals with those failures will tell the true measure of the man.
Obviously some people see him as a Messiah. He appeals to people on a very emotional level, and that’s not always a good thing. But it won’t be long before they realize how human he is. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Kennedy inspired hope; Obama inspires hope . So far, so good…
But for a better comparison, I liked the political cartoon that I saw 6 months ago , after Obama spoke in Germany at the Berlin wall:
The cartoon showed Obama saying “Ich Bin ein BEGinner” .
Kennedy commanded the army during a serious crisis, he created the Peace Corps, he started the moon landings. Obama has so far done nothing, except constantly compare himself to Abraham Lincoln.
We remember Kennedy half a century later for good reasons. And 50 years from now, I’ll be happy to remember Obama, too…IF he shows me that he deserves it.
In the meantime, Jon Stewart described obama-mania on the Daily Show:
after Barak made his speech at the convention in Denver, fireworks exploded in the air , and Stewart said “the excitement was so great that the stadium ejaculated”.
Kennedy was before my time, but whatever I heard of Kennedy-mania, it centered around their family and “soft” topics like fashion and what the family was up to – his accomplishments, not so much. Is that an accurate perception?
In that sense, I’m not worn out on Obama-mania. Their adorable family and cute interviews are a mitigating factor to this Republican. It’s that… well, damn, this guy spent most of his Senate term running for office, and the general public probably can’t name one thing he did as a governor or Senator, but his followers are practically worshiping him as a politician? It also confounds me that a lot of Obama-stickered cars I see on the interstate during rush hour are SUVs (and typically not on the HOV line either). WTF, have the occupants of these SUVs been listening to him at all?
I was repulsed by Obama-mania during the primaries but I think it’s actually died down. I think there is genuine interest and admiration for the President, but it’s appropriate.
There’s a lot of interest in Obama in large part because of whom he follows. Bush didn’t do much to raise the bar regarding judgment or (the appearance of) intelligence. Obama is in stark contrast.