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Remember, Kennedy himself was a Liberal. He was what Liberals believed in at the time. He was anti-Communist, pro-America, and he believed in and articulated the profound idea, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."
That sounds like modern day Conservatism, doesn't it?
From Daniel Pipes:
- The National Enquirer Says Ted Cruz' Father Used To Hang Out With Lee Harvey Oswald
Tabloid says it has proof: Ted Cruz’s father is mystery man in Lee Harvey Oswald photo Lee Harvey Oswald, front left, standing next to man never identified by the Warren Commission, center in white shirt, handing out leaflets for the Fair Play...
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In Memory of Robert F. Kennedy on the 45th Anniversary of his Assassination Quote: "Several special features about Kennedy make this posting very appropriate for this site today: 1. Kennedy visited the Holy Land prior to Israel's establishment...
- Kennedy's Culturist Legacy
As he is mourned we must also remember that Ted Kennedy was behind the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. This revoked the 1924 Immigration Act. The 1924 Act largely excluded Jews and Italians. This was not racist. There was a lot of unrest at this...
- Ted Kennedy Dead
I didn't like the man at all. That's no secret. Still, condolences to his family on the loss of a loved one. May he rest in peace. MSNBC: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy dies 77-year-old loses yearlong battle with brain cancer at Hyannis Port home HYANNIS...
- Two Sides Of Liberals, Then And Now
Editor of the New Republic: Harry Truman would have given terrorists hell IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war — with each other. The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt's former vice president and the most popular politician...
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Did the Kennedy Assassination Make Liberals Go Loony?
Remember, Kennedy himself was a Liberal. He was what Liberals believed in at the time. He was anti-Communist, pro-America, and he believed in and articulated the profound idea, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."
That sounds like modern day Conservatism, doesn't it?
From Daniel Pipes:
Kennedy’s assassination profoundly impaired American liberalism. James Piereson’s 2007 book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution (Encounter) establishes how liberals could not cope with the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist, murdered Kennedy to protect Fidel Castro’s control of Cuba.
Kennedy died for his anti-Communism; but this wildly contradicted the liberals’ narrative, so they denied this fact and insisted on presenting Kennedy as a victim of the radical Right, reading Oswald out of the picture. Piereson ascribes much of American liberalism’s turn toward anti-American pessimism to this “denial or disregard” of Oswald’s obvious role in the assassination: “The reformist emphasis of American liberalism, which had been pragmatic and forward-looking, was overtaken by a spirit of national self-condemnation.”
Blaming American culture writ large for Kennedy’s demise changed liberalism’s focus from economics to cultural equity (racism, feminism, sexual freedom, gay rights), and that led liberals to identify with the countercultural movement of the late 1960s.
The result was what Piereson calls a “residue of ambivalence” toward the worth of traditional American values.
Liberals remain trapped by this distortion, as manifested by, for example, Michelle Obama‘s 2008 remark that with her husband’s ascent, “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” or by a New York Times article this week that blamed Dallas conservatives, rather than a hard-left drifter, for the JFK assassination.
- The National Enquirer Says Ted Cruz' Father Used To Hang Out With Lee Harvey Oswald
Tabloid says it has proof: Ted Cruz’s father is mystery man in Lee Harvey Oswald photo Lee Harvey Oswald, front left, standing next to man never identified by the Warren Commission, center in white shirt, handing out leaflets for the Fair Play...
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In Memory of Robert F. Kennedy on the 45th Anniversary of his Assassination Quote: "Several special features about Kennedy make this posting very appropriate for this site today: 1. Kennedy visited the Holy Land prior to Israel's establishment...
- Kennedy's Culturist Legacy
As he is mourned we must also remember that Ted Kennedy was behind the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. This revoked the 1924 Immigration Act. The 1924 Act largely excluded Jews and Italians. This was not racist. There was a lot of unrest at this...
- Ted Kennedy Dead
I didn't like the man at all. That's no secret. Still, condolences to his family on the loss of a loved one. May he rest in peace. MSNBC: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy dies 77-year-old loses yearlong battle with brain cancer at Hyannis Port home HYANNIS...
- Two Sides Of Liberals, Then And Now
Editor of the New Republic: Harry Truman would have given terrorists hell IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war — with each other. The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt's former vice president and the most popular politician...