The Politics Thread

[Khan]

 

Exactly.

 

We are so screwed.

Edited January 20, 2017 by Khan

[JaneAusten]

So it's being reported that at the concert tonight 10,000 people showed up. Compared to Obama 2009 where the weather is miserable as anything, 400,000 attendees

[Roman]

he only got 10,000 to show up? how Kellyanne will spin this...

[Khan]

 

Ironically, Ted didn't start out wanting to be in politics.

 

Ted originally expressed desires of becoming a businessman, perhaps owning a pro-football team or newspaper.  However, Papa Joe said he needed to "get serious".  Meaning, of course, he needed to get involved in politics and help build Joe's grand vision of an Irish Catholic political family dynasty.

 

Once he started his political career, Ted grew into the public servant that Americans still admire (personal scandals notwithstanding).  But I don't know whether the same would have awaited JFK Jr. had he become a politician as well.  No matter how good he might have been, he always would have paled in comparison to Jack and Bobby.

Edited January 20, 2017 by Khan

[marceline]

 

 

See? I told you we'd have something to smile about.

[Vee]

Trump is burning about this, just as he surely is about the pitiful inauguration line-up.

[Khan]

 

But look for FOB to tweet about the "record-breaking crowds".

 

 

Good.

Edited January 20, 2017 by Khan

[Vee]

 

My mother (who didn't think she'd live to see a black man become President, and who worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign before he was killed) didn't even want him to be out in the open on Election Night for long. I was also nervous.

Edited January 20, 2017 by Vee

[JaneAusten]

Edited January 20, 2017 by JaneAusten

[Khan]

 

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If Benghazi and the Damn E-mails were insurmountable obstacles for Team Hillary, I can only imagine what Chappaquiddick was for Team Teddy.

Edited January 20, 2017 by Khan

[DramatistDreamer]

Tomorrow is going to be a catch up on the things that didn't get done during the week and then Netflix kind of day.

[Khan]

I have about 15 screwball comedies I need to watch.

[DRW50]

 

I can't imagine what that was like (for him or for her family). I used to read a lot of TV/gossip magazines from the '60s and '70s and the ones from 1969 had gone from fun, lighthearted stories (and sure a bit of tawdriness and a whole lot of misogyny) to Manson, the murder of the Lennon sisters' father, and Chappaquidick. I wonder what the average housewife felt about the world when they saw those on sale. 

 

I wasn't trying to knock his career in public service, but this and the 1980 campaign show his heart was never in the spotlight that burned him any time he came close. For many years people tried to idealize the consequences of two men in their prime being gunned down, but it pretty much just wrecked generations of that family. Nothing to glorify about it. 

[DRW50]

 

My mother always watched the inaugurals, she wanted to this year as well out of respect for the office and to see Jimmy Carter, but she said she just can't this year. 

[JaneAusten]

Don't forget Decades TV Network. Constant repeats of all of the televised inaugurations, Eisenhower to Obama. I watched Carters and GWB's first today and both  brought tears to my eyes. First thing Carter did was to thank President Ford for leading our country back through the dark times to a place of integrity. Imagine seeing that today. And even GWB's first address thanked Gore for a spirited campaign and an ending which gave meaning to the words dignity and honor.