tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529553350611602897.post1922670880162543998..comments2022-03-25T05:29:53.953-05:00Comments on The Time That Blog Forgot: Bobby Kennedy may have won the Indiana primary, but his support slipped in the end.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529553350611602897.post-253458362591375762008-05-15T12:03:00.000-05:002008-05-15T12:03:00.000-05:00I was in my last year of High School at the time, ...I was in my last year of High School at the time, from a Republican background (and I am still Republican, at least mostly) and I liked Bobby. He was a so-and-so, but impressed me as being for <I>people</I> more than Jack and more impassioned/feisty. Teddy was then just another family member, would that he had remained in obscurity.John Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801684602403824157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529553350611602897.post-5274736615836282242008-05-14T18:48:00.000-05:002008-05-14T18:48:00.000-05:00All I remember about Bobby Kennedy was my father b...All I remember about Bobby Kennedy was my father being bemused that RK's funeral train killed a couple people on the way to Washington. ``The Kennedys are killing people like flies.''<BR/><BR/>And Ted hadn't gotten into the act yet.<BR/><BR/>I paid no attention to any of it, having inherited only half of the defensive TV bemusement gene.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529553350611602897.post-14582208699655924702008-05-14T15:49:00.000-05:002008-05-14T15:49:00.000-05:00Bobby Kennedy was really good at calling us out, s...Bobby Kennedy was really good at calling us out, similar to his brother ("Ask not..."), but with more soul. That's why he was mad at the college kids defending their deferments by placing themselves above poorer people; bobby was great at having high aspirations for us. I miss that in a Presidential candidate...oh wait, there is this one guy --- nah, he can't win, we're WAY too worldly to fall for all that high hopes stuff again.BillHallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16607593578754397224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529553350611602897.post-34914563557611879382008-05-14T08:49:00.000-05:002008-05-14T08:49:00.000-05:00Here are his advisors talking the 'what if' talk.....<A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/sfeature/sf_what.html" REL="nofollow">Here</A> are his advisors talking the 'what if' talk...he would have ended the war much sooner (even by 1969, according to Schlesinger), he would have bridged the racial divide, this would have been a more humane country, he wanted a revolution in the minds and souls of our people, he wanted to change people, etc.<BR/><BR/>Does this sound familiar?<BR/><BR/>(I think RFK also wanted multi-party power sharing in South Vietnam that would have included in the Viet Cong. Not sure about that, though.)George M. Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07818413936028778734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529553350611602897.post-75307126186317301002008-05-14T08:22:00.000-05:002008-05-14T08:22:00.000-05:00Perhaps Bobby is calling them out on their suppose...Perhaps Bobby is calling them out on their supposed idealism about helping "Negroes." Acting selfish is one thing; but doing so while saying you have loftier goals is what he's mad about.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327563444009264980noreply@blogger.com