Back when the Democrats remembered

[Shotgun]

what this country was all about...from JFK's inauguration speech:

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge—and more."

 

[PatPatriot]

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Boy....you mean they use to have wackos like George Bush in the democratic party...I don't think the NY Times will try to accuse GW of plagerism.

 

[bblight]

Ronnie Reagan said it best: "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me!"

Another Democrat who became a great Republican, and if I might say - one of the best Presidents in the twentieth century!

 

[FloydGondolli]

No doubt that Jack Kennedy's policies of the early 1960's would put him firmly in the center of the Republican Party today.

I'm sure he regularly rolls over in his grave at the political antics of his pathetic, drunkard youngest brother.

 

[D2bets]

If Jack Kennedy would be a Republican today then Bill Clinton is a Republican. Is that how you rationalize your respect for Kennedy -- by calling him a Republican? Funny chit.

 

[bblight]

Let's see, he signed the defense of Marriage act, he re-appointed Alan Greenspan, he went to war in Kosove and Bosnia, and he re-defined and put some work back into welfare.

Clinton might not have been a Republican, but you'd never know it.

 

[FloydGondolli]

D2 - Kennedy was a tax cutter (far larger per capita than Bush's) and increased the defense budget significantly.

Sounds sooooo liberal doesn't he?

And when compared to Kerry or Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton was certainly conservative, though not nearly as conservative as Jack Kennedy.