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2022-11-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

‘The New Kennedys’ - Article from 2004 on then-San Fran mayor Gavin Newsom and wife

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Posted by DooDahMan 2022-11-28 04:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 One good takeaway - the Kennedys are now past tense, politically speaking. Every fad runs its course.

Posted by Raj 2022-11-28 08:26|| 2022-11-28 08:26|| Front Page Top

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#1 One good takeaway - the Kennedys are now past tense, politically speaking. Every fad runs its course.
Posted by: Raj 2022-11-28 08:26

Raj,

That particular fad lasted far longer than it should have. I suspect if that moron Oswald hadn't backshot JFK, the fascination with them never would have happened.

First, JFK would have been tarred by Vietnam. Don't believe most of what you read; he was no more likely to have put a stop to things than Lyndon Johnson was. And while we're talking about Johnson, it's often overlooked that Johnson was being associated with some bribery scandals that may well have brought him down if Kennedy (who knew full well what was going on) didn't decide to drop him from the ticket anyways. Kennedy's death likely saved Johnson from a truly ugly political end. And all that assumes that Kennedy's health held out long enough for him to seek and serve a second term.

Bobby almost certainly wouldn't have been elected if John was still alive, and quite frankly Teddy would have been perfectly happy living off the family's name, money and influence.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-11-28 11:29|| 2022-11-28 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Newsom always reminds me of Michael Douglas in movies where he played the part of sleazoids like Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Wall Street. Part of it is the Dippity Do hair but most of it is the fact the Newsom really is a sleazoid.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-11-28 13:32|| 2022-11-28 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The New Kennedy's what? Who, by the way, is "The New Kennedy" who apparently owns something? How did that errant apostrophe sneak into that title? Am I the only one here who went to school and learned about the use of apostrophes? Perhaps I should have written "apostrophe's". Perhaps I should get myself a cup of coffee and stop trying to correct the incorrectable. I'm really old.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2022-11-28 15:22|| 2022-11-28 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Correctable apostrophe corrected, and now we all feel much better. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-28 15:58|| 2022-11-28 15:58|| Front Page Top

#6 An apostrophe can be corrected. An apostasy is forever.

I think that should be on the Kennedy family crest.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-28 16:45|| 2022-11-28 16:45|| Front Page Top

#7 No apostrophe here: The Dead Kennedys

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-11-28 17:09|| 2022-11-28 17:09|| Front Page Top

#8 @#4 - Uh, maybe it was an honest mistake? Sounds like you come across these grammatical atrocities all day every day. Keep it up and I'll start using hypercorrections, you know, "between him and I".

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-11-28 17:17|| 2022-11-28 17:17|| Front Page Top

#9 We'll blame it on "Harper's"

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-11-28 17:20|| 2022-11-28 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ The Bizarre or the Ferry?

Posted by SteveS 2022-11-28 17:37|| 2022-11-28 17:37|| Front Page Top

#11 No apostrophe in Harper Valley PTA

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-28 17:46|| 2022-11-28 17:46|| Front Page Top

#12 We already have a New Kennedy -

Posted by Bobby 2022-11-28 18:04|| 2022-11-28 18:04|| Front Page Top

#13 "between him and I".

Noooooooo! You know I adore you, DooDah Man, but if you ever do that on purpose again, I will come through your screen and slap you upside the head.

Yes, of course it was an honest mistake. Usually I catch those before our volunteer editors have a chance to point them out, but I was rushed this morning.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-28 18:58|| 2022-11-28 18:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Please, all of you, STOP IT! I spent 12 years in Catholic schools in the fifties and sixties. I had my grammar almost literally beaten into me. I twitch when I see some of these grammar errors.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-11-28 19:30|| 2022-11-28 19:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Yes, Very Kennedyesque:

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-28 22:10|| 2022-11-28 22:10|| Front Page Top

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