IS OBAMA ANYTHING LIKE JF KENNEDY?

Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama - saying he was like her father. (As if he was a man for all seasons and all ages and eras, or something... drunk murderer and left-wing icon Teddy Jo Kennedy will endorse tomorrow)

Well, I don't buy the analogy. Then again, Obama might be a little like JFK - the JFK who:

• LIED about the missile gap.
• who bailed on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
• who blinked during the Cuban missile crisis - (yes: we lost that round; though Nikita paid the price because the MSM pushed the idea that JFK won).
• who lied about his health
• who consorted with mafia broads and female spies
• who ordered the assassination of foreign leaders allied to the usa
• who did bupkus on civil rights
• who appointed his unqualified 36 yr old little bro' USAG

And so on.

LOOKIT: I don't think JFK was ALL bad. He was a hawk compared to today's dems - like Obama.

But JFK was not a great POTUS, and barely a good one.And he was much more experienced and qualified than Barack Hussein "Barry Soetero" Obama, junior.

Obama is more like John Forbes Kerry than John Fitzgerald Kennedy: a euro-loving left-wing dove.

THE ONLY ASPECT OF OBAMA WHICH IS SIMILAR TO JF KENNEDY IS HIS CHARISMA.

Exit question: JFK picked his chief rival for the nomination - LBJ - to be his Veep. Will Obama pick Hillary? Would she accept? (I think he will pick Sam Nunn.)

*******UPDATE: NRO's Ponnuru agrees:

Caroline Kennedy's Political Romanticism [Ramesh Ponnuru]

She says that Obama could be a president like her father.

I assume that means that he'll be overrated, not that he'll bring us to the brink of nuclear war.

01/27 04:42 PM

Great minds think alike.

*******UPDATE: ON FURTHER REFLECTION: Ponnuru's use of the term ROMANTICISM is key: this is what's driving the Obama Surge: romanticism; he's not really qualified - and he hasn't articulated a platform which can work (and he's been proven wrong on Iraq and the Surge), but it's pretty to think he could become president.

ROMANTICISM IS PRECISELY WHY HIS SLOGAN IS SO APT: "Yes, we can!" is as vapid and appealing as the oft repeated word "change". It's meaningless, and in our complex conflict-filled world, it's dangerous to be so meaningless. The real world and the Free World needs a POTUS with more experience, courage and wisdom than Obama.