Word: kennedyism
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Obama is trying to follow a different path, blazed by Robert F. Kennedy, who in 1967--just as he was coming out against the Vietnam War--co-sponsored legislation raising penalties for protesters who desecrate the flag. For his part, John McCain is a walking American flag, his heroic biography...
If Reagan best evoked conservative patriotism, many liberals still identify their brand with John F. Kennedy, a leader forever associated with unfulfilled promise. If Reagan conjured the past, Kennedy downplayed it, urging Americans to instead grab hold of the future. He liked to cite Goethe, who "tells us in his...
Obama's election would, like Kennedy's, represent a triumph over past prejudice. The election of an African American, like the election of a Catholic, would be a sign that America is--as Michelle Obama implied--a different and better nation than it was before, one more worthy of the...
Yet, as he gained power, he grew intolerant of opposition. In the early 1980s, Mugabe's special forces massacred some 20,000 Ndebele tribespeople who supported a rival. He spent lavishly on houses, cars and military operations, sending thousands of troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1998 for...
If he's so concerned about the energy crisis, critics counter, he should think less about increasing Florida's offshore drilling and more about changing its onshore consumption habits. Perhaps more than even California, Florida is enslaved to the automobile, and its public transportation infrastructure is practically non-existent. To...