All this 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination baloney hasn’t interested me much. Some Yankees, I’m sure, still blame Dallas. So what. They’re just stupid, and mostly un- or underemployed.
I remember the adulation from my peers in high school, the low-information voters of my youth, who were only interested in Kennedy’s looks and his pretty wife. Nixon with his five o’clock shadow, beady eyes and rigid wife, wasn’t near as appealing. I was living overseas when he was killed so I missed the mourning hullabaloo
But I do remember why I would never have voted for him, if I had had the chance which I didn’t, being too young. He ran on a phony issue, the alleged Cold War “missile gap,” which as a U.S. senator privy to secret military information he knew was a lie. My Air Force father who knew better was livid.
JFK’s old cronies worshipers are still trying to explain that one away, just like Wormtongue’s acolytes are trying to do with “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.” But just as there are plenty of videos of Wormtongue making his phony promise, there are plenty of old videos of Kennedy saying things like “We are facing a gap on which we are gambling with our survival …”
I could go on, but, like I say, it doesn’t interest me much. He’s dead. He didn’t deserve it the way it happened. But life has moved on. And so will I.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 