The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for February 19, 2012
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February 20, 2012
Transcript:
Joseph Kennedy: Bake you cookies? Johnny, ask not what your Granny can do for you, but what you can do for your Granny. Inspiration strikes a young JFK.
Cute comments, especially Sunshine’s. But I wonder if JFK were alive today how he would feel about our society as it is now, with the over riding sense of entitlement that is so pervasive in the country. That comment from his inaugural speech if used today would probably start riots.
I think he was very similar to Abe Lincoln – ruined the country and got many soldiers killed for nothing – on both sides. Both wanted the South to kow-tow to the North. The only difference was that Lincoln was in an upstart political party and JFK changed his party for the worst.
In retrospect, the idol of Camelot had feet of clay, like every mortal who has held the office (incumbent included). I will say this about JFK: At least he realized that if you decrease tax rates, you increase tax revenue because people make more; and when they have more, they spend more. If you just make it harder for people to hang on to what little they have, there’s a serious disincentive to be productive. It’s a lesson his political heirs would do well to heed.
A few years ago, some historians and biographers got together and declared that they could be reasonably certain that only three presidents had no extra-marital affairs – Adams, Truman, and Carter. One Federalist, two Democrats, and zero Republicans.
margueritem over 12 years ago
So that’s the backstory.
leakysqueaky712 over 12 years ago
Unless she’s Granny Goodness, and that would be baaaaaaaaad news for him!!
corzak over 12 years ago
Flask knot wetter gantry kendo few . . .
GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago
Knoll-edge is power.
Bilan over 12 years ago
Is he saying that I should bake cookies for the entire country?I don’t have enough flour.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
Yeah, Dogsniff, he was raised that way — his family had a lot of dough….. and his father was known to pinch off a piece now and then too.
rmacprivate over 12 years ago
Cute comments, especially Sunshine’s. But I wonder if JFK were alive today how he would feel about our society as it is now, with the over riding sense of entitlement that is so pervasive in the country. That comment from his inaugural speech if used today would probably start riots.
V-Beast over 12 years ago
This photo was taken by Zabruderer.
galanti over 12 years ago
Has anyone here, besides me, ever met JFK?
danlarios over 12 years ago
disgusting comic of the kennedys
rockngolfer over 12 years ago
I think his most famous quote was adapted from one of his professors.
route66paul over 12 years ago
I think he was very similar to Abe Lincoln – ruined the country and got many soldiers killed for nothing – on both sides. Both wanted the South to kow-tow to the North. The only difference was that Lincoln was in an upstart political party and JFK changed his party for the worst.
K M over 12 years ago
In retrospect, the idol of Camelot had feet of clay, like every mortal who has held the office (incumbent included). I will say this about JFK: At least he realized that if you decrease tax rates, you increase tax revenue because people make more; and when they have more, they spend more. If you just make it harder for people to hang on to what little they have, there’s a serious disincentive to be productive. It’s a lesson his political heirs would do well to heed.
iced tea over 12 years ago
Young JFK probably had his cook make him cookies-while he was in bed with all his ailments.
hippogriff over 12 years ago
A few years ago, some historians and biographers got together and declared that they could be reasonably certain that only three presidents had no extra-marital affairs – Adams, Truman, and Carter. One Federalist, two Democrats, and zero Republicans.
bluskies over 12 years ago
Watch out; it’s an amorphophallic con, Jack.
dbbullen over 12 years ago
JFK did not drean this up, this was A Service done by a Unitarian Minister, one of his speech writers paid to use it…