Lieberman likens McCain to JFK
(CNN) — Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, compared presumptive Republican nominee John McCain to a surprising figure on Sunday — Democratic icon John F. Kennedy.“I’m a Democrat who came to the party in the era of President John F. Kennedy,†Lieberman told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week. â€It’s a strange turn of the road when I find among the candidates running this year that the one, in my opinion, closest to the Kennedy legacy, the John F. Kennedy legacy, is John S. McCain.â€
Come to think of it… there is one trait John McCain shares with John Kennedy; they both liked chasing tail:
Different hero, different war
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
It seems that McCain, who had once revealed to fellow prisoners of war in Vietnam that he wanted to be president, was restless in 1979. As Navy liaison to the Senate, he didn’t have the career momentum he had counted on to propel him into an admiralty and on to the White House. He was 42, mired in stifling ordinariness. (Civilians call it “midlife crisis.”)
But McCain was making bold career moves on the home front, hotly pursuing a 25-year-old blond from a wealthy Arizona family — while married. Carol, his wife at the time, had once been quite a babe herself apparently, until a near-fatal car accident (while her husband was in Vietnam) left her 4 inches shorter, overweight and on crutches. The couple had three children, whom Carol cared for alone while her husband was in Vietnamese prisons.
McCain’s strategy worked perfectly: After chasing Cindy Hensley around the country for six months, he closed the deal late in the year, had a divorce by February and was married to Hensley shortly thereafter. Bingo! McCain was a candidate for Congress by early 1982, his coffers full, his home in the proper Arizona district purchased.
-Mission Accomplished.
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What a steaming pile Lieberman has dropped in front of us.
But it’s not the first by someone of his ilk. Remember Dan Quayle in his debate with Lloyd Bentsen? in particular, remember Bentsen’s reply? “I knew John Kennedy, John Kennedy was a friend of mine, and Senator, you’re no John Kennedy.” (There are lots of versions of this quote out there; this one comes closest to what I remember from watching live TV of the debate.) GOPers have been trying to claim Kennedy for at least four decades. Crap. Kennedy was a Democrat of the old tradition, through and through. He was not conservative in any sense of the term. LIEberman LIEs again… big surprise.
I’ll even take ownership of Kennedy’s sexual excess: at least (to all appearances) he wasn’t banging his congressional pages, like today’s GOPers.
I actually remember watching that debate with my dad. I was eleven. Dan Quayle got owned. Yet we are still stuck with his Chief of Staff William “the bloody” Crystal. Why couldn’t they both just fade away?
Not quite the Full Rudy (my former mayor), but still an impressive use of women to advance a political career.
I bet the Kennedy family was proud to hear that-”This confused old war mongering flip flopper embodies what Jack Kennedy was all about.”
Next I expect Hillary Clinton to invoke the ghost of Kennedy-”If he were alive today, he’d do me, and Bill would let him, as long as he could watch.”
mccain is nothing like jfk. he’s more like fdr, i’d say… with a twist of lincoln.
McCain conflates his so-call patriotism with his own personal ambition and desire for power.
If he were a true partiot and really cared about America he would have stood up to Bush/Cheney and stood against the invasions/occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. He also would have stood against torture.
McCain cheated on his wife and married his mistress in order to further his career. All he cares about is himself.
Vietnam Vets Against McCain has some eye opening details about McCain including McInsane’s oppostion to declassifying documents related to Vietanam War MIA/POW’s.
McCain would have been prosecuted for collaborating with the North Vietmanese had Nixon not signed an order giving immunity to POW’s.
People need to learn about the REAL McCain…the war monger McCain who seeks personal glory via war.