I will leave most of the talking to an absolutely amazing article from the Washington Monthly, but with the recent Ted Kennedy endorsement I have to say my piece about all these comparisons between Barack Obama and JFK.

Sen. Barack Obama can give some rhetorically amazing (if unsubstantial) speeches, and he can say change as many times in our paragraph as anybody I know - but he is no revolutionary leader. As the article above (and below) explains, while many people claimed JFK to be too inexperienced for the presidency he actually had quite a resume by the time he sought the highest office in the land. He was a WWII hero, a well-traveled US Congressman, and an independent voice on matters of international diplomacy. Sen. Obama was born in Indonesia…yes, that’s it.

Read the whole article. 

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