Way back in 1960, John Kennedy ran for President. I liked JFK, believed in him, voted for him. He was charismatic, personable, and he gave a heck of a speech. And he looked very good on television, especially against Richard Nixon. John was the second son of a very rich man named Joseph Kennedy. Joe Kennedy was a very ambitious man. He became wealthy as a bootlegger, a compatriot of Alphonse Capone. The difference was that while Capone and the Italian/Sicilian Mafia tried to buy the police departments and the judges, the Kennedys were Irish and the Irish were the police departments and the judges. No contest. Capone went to prison for tax evasion and Joe Kennedy went to the Court of St. James as United States Ambassador.
And in 1960, with the possible connivance of organized crime, Joseph Kennedy bought his son the Presidency of the United States.
There’s an old adage that says, “Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.” The Kennedys have become world famous, not for JFK’s Presidency, but for all the ill that has befallen the family.
Now, Obama and the Chicago machine are out to duplicate the Kennedy gambit. They raised approximately 300 million dollars to spend on the Democratic Primary and they look to raise another 300 million to spend on the general election.
One of the things the Democratic Party plans to do with the more than half billion dollars is to register as many new voters as possible. Their target audience is the young, the poor, the needy. The ‘Have-nots’, if you will, and the Obama promise is to give them more. In ancient Rome, they called it ‘bread and circuses’...or if you prefer, large scale bribery.
The Beatles sang, “Money can’t buy me love...” but it can buy the media. Television, radio, magazines and newspapers are all for sale to the highest bidder and that bidder is Barack Obama. And if he’s successful in buying the presidency, all those young, impassioned voters should be very careful what they wish for....they might get it.
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