John F. Kennedy: One more Sarah Palin villain

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By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

One was a graduate of Choate and Harvard, a president of eloquence for the ages, while the other is a Wasilla, Alaska, high school dropout who mumbles on morning TV -- but both get dissed in Sarah Palin's new book.

Levi Johnston, father of Bristol Palin's baby, is a predictable target. John F. Kennedy takes the reader by surprise. But Sarah Palin's commentary on JFK helps demonstrate the depth of shallowness in one with possible aspirations to Kennedy's job.

Palin takes out after a defining Kennedy speech, the 1960 appearance where the Catholic presidential nominee discussed separation of church and state before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.

Kennedy's speech "essentially declared religion to be such a private matter that it was irrelevant to the kind of country we are," declares Palin, and Kennedy "seemed to run away from his religion."

What did Kennedy actually say? In a seminal passage he declared:

"I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end -- where all men and all churches are treated as equal -- where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice -- where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind -- and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their work in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood."

"I do not speak for my church on public matters -- and the church does not speak for me," he added.
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[BeyondGeography]

1. Nice timing, too

Fucking lowlife that she is.

[Frustratedlady]

2. She is so stupid, she can't even get the message.

He was being rejected by a number of protestants because he was Catholic, and they thought the Pope would be running the country if JFK was elected.

Why does she always have to read some cynical meaning into intelligent writings?

Why am I even reading about anything she wrote? Doh!

[liberal N proud]

4. It is the intelligent part she has trouble with

[Mimosa]

3. Palin is a dumb mean beeyotch

What a load. Actually President Kennedy and his wife Jackie were quietly faithful and each attended Mass if not frequently together.

There's an ongoing campaign to demean JFK all the Kennedy family. There is no way JFK could have even had time for all the womanizing he has been accused of and still conducted a very active Presidency.


From JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James Douglass:

http://www.phibetaiota.net/2009/09/review-jfk-and-the-u... /

Excerpt:

The book’s most positive account is of the back-channel dialog JFK developed with Khrushchev, Castro, and the Pope, dialog that not only defused the confrontations of the time, but also ended the Cold War. The theology of peace, the role of Monk Thomas Merton, the role of Norman Cousins (author of The Pathology of Power – A Challenge to Human Freedom and Safety), the role of the Pope and Pacem in Terris, and the strength JFK drew from a single meeting with Quakers are moving. This is in many ways a resurrection of JFK and both an epitaph worthy of his unsung accomplishments, and a call to arms for achieving closure–truth and reconciliation–with respect to his assassination by US Government personnel committing treason.

[Taverner]

5. This just is another indicator of Palin's fascist ideology

For her, our faith should ALWAYS be on display - and if it isn't that must mean you aren't one of the elect - and the Christian Elect are the ONLY ones who's votes matter

[arbusto_baboso]

7. Precisely. It's not that she missed the point, she just disagrees with it.

To her, separation of church and state is a concept that this country has never really been run by. She wants a state-sponsored snake-handling brand of christianity.

[JuniperLea]

15. When I was in Sunday School...

They taught us not to be proud and vain, and that our actions and how we lived our lives was our testament for the Lord. In fact, I can remember the early days of the Jesus Freak movement when the elders of the church bemoaned the "display" of bragging how into Christ one is. I had the same thoughts when I saw the proliferation of those IMHO really stupid NOTW stickers on HumVees and other giant gas hogs. I guess as long as you put his name out there you don't have to worry about what he taught, because the sticker will let him know;) So I'll just ignore that stewardship deal and not worry about the pollution that comes from that Godly vehicle.

[Taverner]

16. Depends on your interpretation

Thing is, the Bible as you and I know it - is a collection of divergent stories and commands. Joshua was a murderous genocidal maniac. David, same thing, but he felt bad about doing it to a close friend. Jesus comes. Yay. Lots of people still die, and Paul makes it clear everyone has to take it in the ass for Rome. Wonder how much of this was changed because of - STEP FIVE - Rome becomes Christian. Yay. Not because they had freedom of religion and they chose that. Hardly - They have freedom of religion while Constantine ponders the big question - then -poof! - all religions except Christianity are not allowed.

Then they crack down on what a Christian really is. They have the Arian v Trinitarian challenge. Yay - the trinitarians win! All Arians are executed!

Blah blah blah...Crusade here, Muslim invasion there, la dee da until we are here today, doing the same exact thing over and over.

I am so sick of this !

[Philly219]

6. There comes a point in time when

someone just goes too far. To twist JFK's words into one of her fucking talking points is one of the lowest cheap shots she has taken.

I hate the bitch.

[Doctor_J]

9. Too far for what?

No one is going to do anything about her.

[PearliePoo2]

8. This from a phony Christian

who rarely attends church, had a Kenyan Witch-hunter pray for her at the Wasilla Assembly of God church and is an "end-times" nut waiting (and secretly looking forward to) the "Rapture".
Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses (and voting public) to buy this drivel and send her money.

[Vincardog]

10. The abysmal depth of her shallowness is striking

[ladjf]

11. Palin is too lazy and disinterested to take the time to actually read

the entire passage. nt

[Kingofalldems]

12. She's Emily Litella without the 'never mind'.

[WinkyDink]

13. Well, if Obama can put down FDR, Palin can do so to JFK. After all, those men were ONLY GIANTS.

[newtothegame]

14. Neither party can speak for Kennedy these days. nt