Caroline Kennedy tells Bush to stop invoking JFK

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041027/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_kennedy_bush&cid=1506&ncid=2043


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"It's hard for me to listen to President Bush (news - web sites) invoking my fathers memory to attack John Kerry. Senator Kerry has demonstrated his courage and commitment to a stronger America throughout his entire career," she said.


"President Kennedy inspired and united the country and so will John Kerry.


"President Bush is doing just the opposite. All of us who revere the strength and resolve of President Kennedy will be supporting John Kerry on Election Day," Kennedy Schlossberg said in a statement.


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"The party of Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, and John Kennedy is rightly remembered for confidence and resolve in times of crisis. Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price,' and 'bear any burden,' and he has replaced those commitments with 'wait and see,' and 'cut and run,'" Bush said.

Good for her, for speaking up.

I have always admired Caroline.

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What a pompous ass he is.

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We won't have to endear to much longer. Maybe one more week. Kerry will win by a landslide.

He and his followers chill me to the bone.

You're so much better than your stupid cousin and her stupid goon husband.

they had him paraphrasing it over her video image. Same thing they've been doing a lot lately to diffuse impact of a democratic "moment".

This is the same Bush who is more than happy to trash Caroline's Uncle Ted at every available occasion.

Let's be honest. George W. Bush is a plutocrat, an advocate of highly regressive tax policies that award a payout to the rich, even in a time of job losses and ongoing war. What the bloody hell does he have in common with a real wartime leader like FDR?

And let's not even get into the contrasting social policies. Please!

And Bush flees any admission of error or responsibility, unless he can claim credit for something (usually something he opposed outright at first, like the Department of Homeland Security). Contrast that with JFK and Harry "The buck stops here" Truman.

Good for Mrs. Schlossberg for having said that to Bush. I hope he takes it to heart...

I'd be pissed too if a politician was trying to coopt memories of my dad to further her/his own career.

There's something incredibly wrong and insulting, however, for George W. Bush to invoke JFK.

You, sir, are no Jack Kennedy, and in fact you represent the antithesis of his ideals, as Caroline more eloquently observed.

and Welcome to DU End of all Hope!

:toast:

I am curious about your moniker....

It is the end of all hope
To lose the child, the faith
To end all the innocence
To be someone like me

Mandylion without a face
Deathwish without a prayer
End of hope
end of love
end of time
The rest is silence



I was in a slightly gloomy mood too, as far as the election was concerned. If I could change the username now I probably would.

Mr. President, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a father of mine. Mr. Resident, you are no Jack Kennedy.

:toast: for Caroline

bush* should not be allowed to utter JFK's name!

in 2012. She would make a great first female President.

Your parents and brother are smiling down on you.

During one of the debates, The Shrub started blathering about Reagan. I was waiting for Kerry to turn around and say "Mr. President, I knew Ronald Reagan -- and you're NO Ronald Reagan."

I guess he either didn't think of it, or felt it would be too cheezy. It probably would have been, but I wanted to see the Shrub get slapped down anyway.

to see children like Ron, Jr. and Caroline speak up for what's right and good in this country. Though they had privilege, they also have had the burdens of being the children of politicians - and they have evolved into intelligent, independant thinkers. We can also be proud of Chelsea Clinton, who has conducted herself so well. It hasn't as much to do with 'party' as it has to do with integrity - something sorely missing in the * 'dynasty'.

from the legendary Kennedy political influence. I would be quite sure that Caroline finds Bush most repugnant in the invocation of the use of her father's name. Caroline has remained very much in the back row. If Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg feels so strongly that she has been drawn closer to the field of battle in this year's Presidential contest it is surely due the idiocy of Bush; she must feel truly insulted.

With all due respect and support for Caroline as very descent human being who has heard too much nonsense from Bush!

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Caroline,

Of all the smart and intelligent citizens this country has to run for office... you are at the TOP of My List.

Please consider what special talents and gifts you have .. and share them with your fellow Americans.. in building a better America.

Respectfully

and have others bear his burdens.

worthy of carrying a bucket of John Kennedy's spittle. Bush is such a loser and trying to compare himself to the brilliant and courageous JFK is a pathetic joke.

I'd pay good money to see her walk up to bush in the middle of a speech and bitch slap him right in the cocksucker.

has bush* ever paid? What burden has he ever bore?

Take THAT MonkeyMan!!!!

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of Caroline.
What class, just 1st class all the way!

I also find it interesting that her major work on privacy, A RIght To Privacy (co-written with Ellen Alderman), was published just about five years before Ashcroft and SS started stealing our rights to privacy. A slap in the face. We are extremely divided.

We should just split up the country proportionate to the true count results of this election. God willing, we'll have a true count

MUST be disgusted with what * has done to our country.

called "In Our Defense" that illustrates the Bill of Rights through Supreme Court cases. Not "big" cases, but ones involving just ordinary people.

I agree with the other DU'ers also, in that she is a smart and
classy lady.

What a woman!

:bounce: Her mom and dad are looking down beaming with pride

Just a White Trash thug that thinks he's President!!!

Let's get everyone to do whatever they can - even if it's only 5 minutes on their computer - quick and easy things ot do to get bush out of the White House:

www.helpkerrywin.com

Plus interesting links and great humor!

Let's make Caroline happier!!!

painful it is for her to hear the lying sack of shit trying to horn in on her father's legacy. I'm glad she spoke out.

She is class at its best. I gratefull she came out and said something.

booot this way up high

A class act!

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