Originally Posted By: whomod
 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.

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Remember that ceremony where Ted Kennedy (the brother to the good ones) endorsed Obama? That was set up & paid for by Obama's campaign. It look liked he was promoting the idea that the Kennedy torch was being passed to Obama.

Fair play!