[sailaway21]

sck5,
You're playing a lonely trumpet. The generation that actually remembers the Kennedy presidency is at a minimum of sixty years old. And much of their memories are colored by the blatherings of the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. who made his life career the perpetuation of the Camelot myth. History always has it's say. You'll notice no recent biographies on the Kennedy administration and it's successes. To the extent it is mentioned in the history books it is a record of failure.

Bill Clinton was able to use his affection for Kennedy to good effect because a good portion of the voting public had actual memories of Kennedy. That was sixteen years ago. Today the average voter does not remember the Reagan administration.

The Kennedy reference is appropriate though because Khrushchev's actions were based upon his impression that the US president was a weak light-weight, which turned out to be correct, and he thus felt emboldened to act as he did.

Joe Biden's recent comments in Seattle, calling for support for Obama when he is inevitably tested and fails, yeah-fails, harkens back to the the inexperienced, but oh-so bright, Kennedy administration. Biden is confused, a congenital condition in his case, and is speaking as if he were still in the primary campaign running against Obama. Perhaps a kernel of wisdom has emerged. Then again, it is Joe Biden, and even that could be an erroneous assumption.