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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (12769)	2/20/2006 9:04:59 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541559

The JFK election was extremely close, and JFK was hated by a good segment of the population because he was a Catholic, and hated by a lot more people because of his policies. On top of that he couldn't get his policies through because he didn't have a clear majority, or a "mandate" - as we would put it now. And we need another one of him? Add to this the fact that he sounded like a Neocon when it came to the cold war (Bay of Pigs- fits the Neocon idealization of transformation through violence), and I think I can assure you, we don't need more of him. Since he died young, and in the presidency, he's shrouded in a mantle we normally would give To An Athlete Dying Young. It doesn't have much to do with merit, and has a lot to do with America's obsession with youth, and wealth, and the mystique of Camelot.

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