Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
 Originally Posted By: M E M
My point was that I think Kennedy ran as himself while Obama is using other people's greatness to run on. You give him credit that he hasn't earned.


You ignored M E M's point, Whomod.

Even though other people like Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, and now Ted Sorenson, are calling Barack Obama the Second Coming of JFK, it's still making a false comparison to JFK, casting Obama falsely as the ghost of JFK, tather than as himself.


But you make a great point. Obama himself isn't running on comparing himself to kennedy. Kennedy's own family and political advisor, among others, are doing that. That's pretty much 1st person comparisons rather than say, the times when people compare Bush to Truman when trying to vindicate him and excuse his and the war's deep unpopularity.

It'd be stupid of me to criticize Bush for that as he's not running around comparing himself to Truman (that I know of). And that's just GOP pundits that generally make that comparison. it's not Truman's own family and confidants. Get my point?