American Royalty

The Kennedys are as close to American royalty as anyone in my lifetime has ever come. This is the reason the ground on which even idiot blood walks is still routinely worshipped. John Kennedy was by no means an idiot. This distinction is reserved for most comprising the modern-day clan. John Kennedy was an able representative of his party in its day.

Back then, of course, the Democrat party was more conservative than even the Republicans are today. Some say that back in 1960 Kennedy and Nixon were virtually tied at the end of a hotly contested presidential race. It was only after Richard Daley raised thousands from the graveyards of Chicago and bussed them to the polling stations that Kennedy was nudged over the goal line.

Nixon knew this, but conceded anyway; for the good of the country, he was to have said.

There were problems with the Kennedy presidency, just as there have been problems with all. All that was swept aside when Kennedy was martyred - and rightly so. We only remember that he promised that we would put a man on the moon, and we did. I too will not dwell on the man's failings.

In those heady days of the sixties, it really did not matter who was president - Republican or Democrat. Both loved their country. They just had slightly different ways of showing it.

Would anyone dare to envision the Obamas, or the Bushes, or the Clintons as royalty today?

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