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Pastimes : John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (85)	7/23/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 440

That is an interesting question....There is an essay by Norman Mailer called "Superman in the Supermarket", which he published in Esquire, and is collected (if i recall correctly) in the book "Cannibals and Christians". He is covering the Democratic convention, and deciding that he prefers Kennedy, a middle of the road Senator with a not very distinguished legislative record, to Adlai Stevenson, the darling of anti- communist liberal intellectuals. His take is that electing Kennedy would be "an existential event", that it would release the national psyche, and make us once more adventurous. To Mailer, the ultimate issues would be Kennedy's virility, youth, vitality, and patrician air, give us a new sense of ourselves. And, of course, it is just the mythic aspect of the Kennedy presidency that has been the most important. When he was slain, many people felt as if an era had been aborted, and the traumas of the decade of the Sixties have subsequently been traced back, mostly fancifully, to the assassination. Oliver Stone has bought, hook, line, and sinker, that Kennedy was contemplating getting us out of Vietnam, and other progressive agenda items, that caused "The Beast" to get rid of him, but even those who admit that it is uncertain how thing would have differed had he lived have often felt as if the trauma radiated other traumas, until America was on the brink of chaos...