Can BHO be seen as JFK?

The wonderful thing about this election is its transparency,Whoever, whatever, the candidates are, by and largee someone will boil all that complexity down to a key ork and people vote for key works.

Of course, SJ is a supporter of Obama. The reasons are said eselwhere in the blog. However, BHO's team needs to sell their man, sell their man. So, right or wrong GHO seems to be melting into a modl called "change." I have no idea what change might be in this case, at least in terms of substance but I am beginning to wonder if the image mongers are sculpting a virile, young, blue eyes, wavy haired Kenendy out of the darker marble and close cropped kinky haitr of Obama?

JFK vs. Nixon was never rlaly about issues or even about the need to avoid having a man as dishoinest as Nixon serfve as Prexy. It ended up being about PT 109, young JFK replacing Ol' Ike. So, as Iowa's caucus nears, th spin seems to be that BHO will be portrayed as the second coming of Kennedy.

Want proof?

Desmoines Register

""In an indication of the Obama's appeal in Iowa, Democratic caucusgoers say they prefer change and unity over other leadership characteristics. Selecting a candidate who represents a sharp departure from the status quo is 56-year-old Lansing Democrat John Rethwisch's priority, and his main reason for backing Obama.

"I have been seeing more and more something Kennedy-esque coming from Obama," said Rethwisch, Lansing's water and sewer administrator. "But it's always a gamble when you get somebody in there who hasn't got a proven track record."

Thirty percent of the poll's respondents said a candidate's ability to bring about change is the most important, followed by 27 percent who said their priority is choosing a candidate who will be the most successful in unifying the country."

Barak Obama ... Another Look

Ted Sorensen, who worked for JFK, points out some fairly striking similarities between Barak Obama's candidacy and John Kennedy's long-shot run in 1960.

JFK was a first-term senator when he ran for president. Ditto Obama.

JFK was considered too young and inexperienced by the party establishment. Ditto Obama.

JFK's cultural heritage -- Irish Roman Catholic -- equalled "unelectable" in many people's minds. Obama is "that black guy" (or a term less circumspect) with a strange name.

JFK rose to national prominence almost overnight because of the speech he gave at the 1956 Democratic convention, nominating Adlai Stevenson. Four years later he himself was nominated. Obama rose to national prominence suddenly because of the speech he gave in Boston at the 2004 Democratic convention.

JFK published an inspirational best-seller, "Profiles in Courage," in 1956. Obama published "The Audacity of Hope," an inspirational best-seller, in 2006.

JFK focused his campaign on "hope, a determination to succeed despite the odds, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and confidence in the judgment of the American people." Ditto Obama.

JFK attracted the young, the disconnected, first-time voters, and independents "at the grassroots level, a phenomenon that initially went almost unnoticed by Washington leaders and experts too busy interviewing themselves." Ditto Obama.

JFK "preached (and personified) the politics of hope in contrast to the politics of fear." Ditto Obama.

What Sorensen doesn't say is that JFK was the only candidate who could stop Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960. Obama is clearly the only Democrat who can stop Hillary in '08.



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