I was also a in HS, a junior, during the missile crisis. those events from those years are indelible, but we've learned different lessons. Jack Kennedy was deeply flawed, utterly charming, and surrounded by a cabinet that makes Bush's look like special olympics candidates. Jack's "preparation" was entirely groomed by daddy, who made his millions in prohibition, and his real world experience, PT109 notwithstanding, was probably less than Obama brings with him. The year I find most haunting is '68, for reasons too obvious to restate. RFK would have won, easily. but that was taken from us, and not, I think, by chance. The cynicism, disconnection, alienation, and steadily declining voter participation is not an accident. It's what Ike warned against, the military industrial whores defending their money by any means necessary. I find the Clintons entirely too burdened by baggage of their own creation. I voted twice for Bill, but without enthusiasm. My lack of enthusiasm was richly rewarded, with his squandering of our majorities in both houses of congress, his licentious and sexist behavior that set the table for Bush to get close enough to steal the election, his decimation of the safety net for the poor (welfare reform my ass). Hillary is riding his record. She claims it, all Arkansas and DC parts of it, and she gets from that what she deserves: a record as the consummate insider, deal maker, sellout and hack. Bright? Hell yeah. Visionary, or having the eloquence to call a nation to sacrifice (there's a bunch coming, and very soon); no way. She's pedestrian, pedantic, predictable, and calculating. She's Nixon in a pants suit. He had a long record, was very, very bright, and didn't give a damn about anything but winning. If he'd shaved before the teevee debate, he'd have won. Would he have invaded Berlin? Is that the lesson you learned? A strong president is a militarist at heart? How sad. We'll never know what Jack might have been. His first hundred days were decidedly checkered, but he did, undeniably, offer hope. Irrational hope, some might say. going to the moon. How irrelevant to daily American life. But a common goal, and a visionary in the bully pulpit. I'll take a chance on that rather than someone who's already triangulated so many times she doesn't know where she stands, except to keep running no matter what.

the attempted parallel between 2000's judicial coup and the would be usurpation of DNC primary rules by two renegade states is utter bullshit, which is what we've come to expect from Hate Bait Kate. Billary is closer to being Harris than she is Gore. What happened in Florida in 2000 changed the course of this nation as surely as did the assassinations of the Kennedys and MLK in the sixties. Scalia is a traitor, a smug quisling for whom a firing squad is too good.

You can just hear Brando's voice as Don Coreone saying, "ya know, it'd be a shame if somethin' happened to Obama, ya know? I'm just sayin". Every time you think you've found the slimy bottom of billary's sink, she grabs another handful of crap. Whatta shrew.

why does she blurt out one gaffe after another? Freudian slip under her hideous pant suit? Do you get paid by the post, lolvocain, or by the stupidity index? No one thinks Billary has a hit set up on Obama. That's Huckabee's department. What it is is ultra dumb, insensitive in the extreme. One more reason she'd be a disaster in November. Thank God that won't happen. I hope Obama doesn't get pressured into having Lady Albatross around his neck as VeePee. She's as sensitive as a toilet seat.

what did she do to earn six million? clip coupons? go to the mailbox and get the dividend checks? and did she write off cosmetic surgery as a business expense? The Stepford Wife if there ever was one. Johnny gave her a test drive or twenty while he was still married to wife number one, the one that had waited six years for him to be released. Family values.

bigotry knows no bounds, state or religious. billary's victory margins in Penn and WV were largely provided by whites with little education and, um, interesting views of black and muslim people, in particular. Many of the toothless fools think Obama is a Muslim. I saw an interview with a voter who said "we just got rid of a Hussein; I ain't votin' for no Hussein." Real bright. Another interview with a whitey who said "I just cain't vote for them other ones. You never know what them other un's 'll do." In private, "other one's" becomes niggers. Feel free to support this core of billary's base. they can all piss off.

Obama received secret service protection earlier in the primary process than any candidate in history precisely because there have been so many death threats against him. Laugh it off, bigbutted billarybots, but first Huckabee's NRA convention remark about pointing a gun at Obama, and now Hillary's braindead reference to the RFK assassination show an astounding insensitivity, at best, and a veiled threat, at worst. I think she was trying to invoke RFK to claim his mantle, which is utter horseshit to begin with, but this allegedly brilliant policy wonkette blurts out reference to an event that still haunts those of us who lived through it. I was a senior in college, working on the RFK campaign at the time he was murdered. billary isn't worth a pimple on Robert's ass.