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JailBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 05:25 PM
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1. It's a horrible thing to say, but have you ever pondered the
possibility that JFK's assassination was a GOOD thing?

I was in elementary school at the time and was very shaken up. JFK still looms as an icon of virtue in my mind.

But intelligent adults ask tough questions, and I'm not entirely certain I know what JFK was really all about. More important, the Kennedy's were America's most powerful family, and it's hard to imagine how powerful they would be today if JFK had survived.

Given the damage that has been wrought by the Bush dynasty - the all the Kennedys have done to fight them (not), I can't help but wonder how America might have fared under a Kennedy dynasty.

Imagine if John F. Kennedy was semi-retired, similar to George Bush Senior, Ted Kennedy was Governor of Massachusetts, another Kennedy was Governor of Texas, there were three or four Kennedy senators and Maria Shriver married Dick Gephardt, instead of that other Nazi. If they were all good people, fantastic. If not...

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