2.12.2008

Popping The Obama Bubble

Now that the Kennedy's have formally anointed Obama with the legend of Camelot we have to wonder if he deserves it, or, if "it" is really anything at all. Firstly, JKF gained mythic proportions only by being assassinated. Before that, he became President by the tiniest of margins; in fact, on the day of his assassination he was in Dallas, not as a legend, but as a struggling politician shoring up his sagging political fortunes there in anticipation of his next difficult election.

Since Kennedy's death we have learned that his personal life, and the national security implication of it, was horrendous; in fact, infinitely more horrendous than th