OzOne wrote:
Yep, it appears he timed his war strategy a little soon.
If he'd still been winning in Iraq then he would have been a she in.
Now it's all gone to hell, they need to try some different
tactics..maybe a little extra tax cut.

At this point, it would have been cheaper and far far more effective to
give every Iraqi man, woman, and child $80,000 and tell them to love
Uncle Sam.


BTW been radin a scary book, The Dark Side of Camelot, details the
electioneering and presidency of JFK using interviews and records
released under the freedom of inf act.
It's just waay too scary thinking that a president can and did use his
office to lead personal vendettas against those who embarassed him or
who he assumed had done him wrong, and the corruption that was
involved in keeping his not so private life out of the newspapers.

It parallels GWB to a large extent.

I could believe that the press overlooked JFK's womanizing due to being
bribed one way or another. As for personal vendettas, I'd be a little
surprised but that's the way politics works at baseline... I'm not a big
Kennedy fan, but think he did a basically good job at a tough time.
Remeber when you read a hatchet job on JFK that a *lot* of media types
really have it in for him now. I've read some amazing stuff about how he
faked the whole PT-109 incident and that his father Joe P. switched from
smuggling liquor to smuggling heroin after Prohibition was repealed, etc
etc. And a lot of people are willing to believe it.

Conversely, a lot of people cannot believe anything bad about JFK and
sanctify him... just as bad IMHO. But he is a *little bit* more worthy
of it than say J.Edgar Hoover.

DSK