Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (171462)	8/15/2001 1:38:39 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

My view is just the opposite. IMHO John and Bobby were members of the "system". It was a part of them: their backgrounds, their families, their friends, their education, their money, their connections, their wives. And I believe that they were proud of that, and used it to their advantage. Till the day they died, they were insiders and their families are still "insiders". And I believe, they were proud of, and loyal to, their father- and IMHO you can't be more "a part of the System" than Joe Kennedy. I think Bobby turned to the left only to piss off LBJ. Why else would a former aide to Joe McCarthy run to the left of Hubert Humphrey? If anyone of that time period was an outsider, it was Richard Nixon. IMHO Nixon desperately wished to be a "member" of the "System", but never was. I think it was a chip he carried on his shoulder for his entire public life. BTW. I think JFK and RFK were great too. Only a super rich kid would come up with a strategy like the arms race (building weapons you dare never use, and racing to the moon)to drive your opponent's economy into chaos.