IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE JFK FOR 15 MINUTES: Obama Compares Kerry to ‘the Original JFK from Massachusetts.’
But isn’t everyone with a (D) after his name?
● 2008: Caroline Kennedy compares Obama to JFK.
● 2007: The Hill: Draft Al Gore, The True Heir to FDR and JFK.
● 2004: AP: Links between Kerry, JFK are unavoidable.
● 1994: Bill Clinton circulates film of meeting JFK in July of 1963.
● 1988: “In buoyant, celebratory joint appearances here, both Democrats repeatedly cited what Bentsen called the ‘Boston-Austin axis’ and repeatedly invoked memories of the election 28 years ago when Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy and Texas Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson regained the White House for the Democrats,” the Washington Post, in a piece titled “Dukakis Chooses Texas Sen. Bentsen as Running Mate.” Later it would be revealed that Bentsen lied about being friends with JFK after attacking Dan Quayle.
● 1987: “If there is a single subject on which Gary Hart is, well, passionate, it is the Kennedys. It was John Kennedy’s 1960 campaign that inspired him to a vocation in ‘public service,’ as he always puts it,” E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote in a 1987 New York Times profile of Hart. “John Kennedy made politics legitimate, and Hart’s excitement over the campaign prompted him to go to Yale Law School after he finished Yale Divinity School. When the talk turns to Robert F. Kennedy, Hart, the political outsider, lights up.”
Never mind that JFK, the staunch cold warrior and tax cutter would be unelectable today and as early as 1968, RFK was running against his brother’s sunny New Frontier optimism; all that matters is having the right hair and/or, like John F. Bravo, looking good in the suit.
Update: “I call dibs on the banging-Marilyn-Monroe 15 minutes,” Iowahawk tweets. Heh.™
And after reading Nick Gillespie’s tweet linking to this post, perhaps I should have dubbed it “An Army of Vaughn Meaders.”