Warmonger Gone

Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, died early this morning at age 93.
McNamara was secretary of defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. In that capacity he directed a U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia during the critical early years of a Vietnamese conflict that escalated into one of the most divisive and bitter wars in U.S. history. When the war was over, 58,000 Americans were dead and the national social fabric had been torn asunder.
Washington Post obit HERE

Jackson Quote of the Day

“He was not only a talented person, but he was unique - a genius. It’s such a loss. It feels like when Kennedy died.”
-- Celine Dion

(Just in case you don’t have the dates on hand, JFK was assassinated in 1963. Five years later - in 1968 - Celine Dion was born.)

Ignorant Newspaper Prints Presidential Death Threat

There have been jokes about watermelon and fried chicken, and sent emails containing racist slurs. And now a personal ad in a Pennsylvania newspaper has called for his assassination.
President Barack Obama's milestone presidency has brought out its fair share of racists and hateful misfits, evident in an ad placed in the Times-Observer of Warren, in northwest Pennsylvania, earlier this week.
The ad in Thursday's paper read: "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!" All four presidents were assassinated in office.
The paper apologized on Friday, calling it an oversight. Its publisher said the advertising staff didn't make the historical connection between the five men.
more HERE

Related:
Warren Times-Observer: Update on investigation into Obama classified

Say Goodnight, Caroline?

How JFK's daughter flubbed the audition to become the next Senator Kennedy
New York Daily News editorialist, Michael Goodwin believes Caroline Kennedy's bid for Hillary Clinton's vacant Senate seat is all but over...
read it HERE

Bob Hope & JFK

John F. Kennedy and Bob Hope shared a birthday - May 29, 1917 & May 29, 1903 respectively...
In 1962 Mr. Hope received a Congressional Gold Medal...video HERE...other video HERE

Breaking News - Ted Kennedy Hospitalized

Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering stroke-like symptoms.
Mr. Kennedy was taken to the hospital overnight, there is no word on his condition.
Kennedy, 76, has been in the Senate since election in 1962, filling out the term won by his brother, John F. Kennedy. more HERE
top candidates take pause HERE
video HERE