I admit right here before this sentence ends that I was not a Sarah Palin fan from the moment that she stepped into the national spotlight. But now she's really done it!! On the anniversary of JFK's assassination while doing some research I came across an excerpt from Palin's book that accuses Kennedy of quote: "running away from his faith" during his address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in September of 1960. Are you kidding me??!! Palin attacking the oratory of JFK is laughable!! Even historian Ted Widmer, who included that very same JFK speech in a Library of America anthology of this country's oratory, was surprised by Palin's comments saying: "It's putting a negative spin on what was interpreted at the time as a sensible and uplifting message. JFK was trying to protect his own right to be a Catholic and to run for president." Of course taking things out of context & using them for her own political agenda is what she does best. Just a word of advice to Ms. Palin; JFK was out of your league a half century ago & 50 years hasn't changed that.
You can hear Kennedy's speech here for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDP4qrA8hvg&feature=related
The scary thing is there are lots of people out there who would seriously consider Ms. Palin for president. I'm wondering if the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 because they knew Sarah Palin would become president and the world would end shortly thereafter.
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