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Topic: JFK´s last night recalled as
key event for Latinos |
JFK´s last night recalled as
key event for Latinos
Associated Press, by Russell Contreras
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Posted By:JoniTx, 11/25/2012 9:47:52 AM
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| President John F. Kennedy was supposed to just stop by and wave hello. Instead a group of eager Latinos persuaded him to come inside and speak to a packed room of Mexican-American civil rights activists. And then he persuaded his wife, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, to address the crowd in Spanish. It was Nov. 21, 1963. Hours later, the president was dead, his assassination overshadowing the significance of a speech that can be seen as the birth of the Latino vote, so instrumental in 2012 in helping re-elect the first black president, Barack Obama. To historians, Kennedy´s appearance
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/25/2012 9:56:21 AM (No. 9032916)
Puuuuhleez!get a grip
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FunOne, 11/25/2012 10:05:15 AM (No. 9032926)
Assassination tends to elevate the perception of a president and cause history to dismiss his warts. Sometimes even to invent circumstances that contribute to the myth.
The reality of the JFK presidency was that public enthusiasm was dropping for him, reelection was seriously in doubt, and that his trip to Dallas was to troll for votes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
dukester, 11/25/2012 10:12:30 AM (No. 9032939)
AP + title of article = puff peace. Nuff said.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Davids918, 11/25/2012 10:17:42 AM (No. 9032945)
So, now trying to link the Latino vote to JKF, huh?
Funny thing, JFK couldn´t get the nomination in the Democrat party today - he´d be too conservative.
He cut taxes on the rich.
He escalated a war in Vietnam.
He supported the military.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HerbVA, 11/25/2012 10:27:47 AM (No. 9032960)
Bet he was no fan of buggery either.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 11/25/2012 11:00:06 AM (No. 9032995)
Mr. Contreras, you should not believe everything you read, nor should you conjure up a fantasy to meet your desire. Had you been in Houston that night, you would have seen the local Hispanics looking at each other in puzzlement and heard them giggling over the fact that none of them could understand her. She spoke in classic Castilian and Texas Hispanics speak border Spanish. It was very nice of her to address them, but I guarantee that speech wasn´t the birth of anything.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
voxpopuli, 11/25/2012 11:01:13 AM (No. 9032996)
read the o´reilly book for a quick take on the jerk..
AND MLK jr..
sounds like a prequel to the gangsters and whore mongers we have in office now..
no wonder clinton idolized jfk..
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Southwest Cincinnatus, 11/25/2012 11:41:35 AM (No. 9033057)
This propaganda shows us just how close we are to seeing the horrors of an Orwellian "Ministry of Truth" foisted upon the American public.
Never let facts get in the way of "Leftist fantasy!"
One minor point should be addressed: JFK did NOT carry Arizona in 1960! The "Grand Canyon State" has been the most reliably Republican in the Post-World War II era....at least in terms of Presidential voting.
Only two democrats have won Arizona in that span: Truman in 1948, and Clinton in 1996.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 11/25/2012 11:47:15 AM (No. 9033065)
JFK was a skank, as was that gold digging wife of his. Onassis didn´t last long after she married him. Kind of wondered if she wasn´t a black widow.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jorgecito, 11/25/2012 12:19:43 PM (No. 9033113)
The irony is that the worshipful masses of minorities actually believed JFK gave a damn about them.
He didn´t. It is well documented that JFK had a difficult time pondering how to deal with the national headlines about M L King in jail.
JFK and his brother Bobby et al finally decided that the most political advantage could be derived from a gesture of support toward ML King.
The decision was not based on principle, but was a political calculation as to which course of action would gain (or lose) JFK the most votes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kurto, 11/25/2012 1:14:35 PM (No. 9033197)
It´s a pity that demonRats have to go all they way back to JFK to find someone that they can convince themselves is a hero. However, a hero is one thing and...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
fleetusa, 11/25/2012 2:24:34 PM (No. 9033287)
The Dims and the media just love to continue glossing the JFK fantasies. In 30 years we´ll be getting the same treatment for Choom. Barf.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Calvinesq, 11/25/2012 3:57:57 PM (No. 9033402)
Meanwhile, he sold the Cubans down the river.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 11/25/2012 7:18:49 PM (No. 9033586)
So he did a Mexican chick?
I´m with #1.
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