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I was too young to remember Jack Kennedy being elected. But I recall I was in a fish & chip shop when I heard he'd been killed, overhearing a conversation & feeling something painful. A customer quietly spoke the news to the woman behind the counter. She put her hand up to her face. Her face.

I was a teenager when the Kennedy White House was sometimes called Camelot. I'd begun reading the Arthurian Legends without being aware of this. John Mitchell's book on Ley Lines had started me off. When I came across Lewis Spence's British Mysteries there was no stopping me. So when I heard mention of Camelot in connexion with John F. Kennedy, you can see, I paid attention. Jack Kennedy became associated with that era, when radical change for the better looked not just as though it was inevitable, but there was also the sense that it was going to be a bit of a pushover. I laughed, & hacked on my chillum.

Robert Kennedy. Elect Bobby. Watching him speak, blinking over the microphone, flicking his fringe all the time the way young men did in those days before sensible haircuts.

Robert Kennedy was the best President America never had.

On the day after the election, Ustadh Juan Cole, at his Informed Comment blog http://www.juancole.com/ has pictures of JKF, MLK, & RFK... under the heading 'Wouldn't it be nice if Jack, Martin, Bobby, Cesar and Patsy could have been around to see it?'
I don't think I can add anything to that.

As you know, by the time it got to trying to get George McGovern elected, the cause was already suspected to be hopeless.

I haven't heard many commentators recalling the days when Colin Powell was a prospective Presidential candidate. He wisely turned it down of course. There were murmurs about Condoleeza Rice too. What if it'd been Colin Powell, perhaps with Condoleeza Rice on the ticket, instead of McCain & the disasterous Sarah Palin? The Republicans might well have won with two black candidates.

Here's a quote:

"What else but a controlling emotional 'devil' so blinded American white intelligence that it couldn't forsee that millions of black slaves, 'freed', then permitted even limited education, would one day rise up as a terrifying monster whithin white America's midst." ( Autobiography of Malcolm X)

& for your edification, here's one from Aristotle. I mean the Aristotle.

"Those who live in a cold climate & in Europe are full of spirit, but wanting in intelligence & skill. They keep their freedom but have no political organisation, & are incapable of ruling over others." (The Politics)

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