tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post141831642757848275..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": What Will Obocracy be Like?Lester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-10608524890605897182014-03-30T21:24:57.039-05:002014-03-30T21:24:57.039-05:00Indeed, very prescient.
Hey, are you blogging els...Indeed, very prescient.<br /><br />Hey, are you blogging elsewhere now?Will S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02714519301979594160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-8418638138360196972010-09-27T16:57:33.177-05:002010-09-27T16:57:33.177-05:00Thanks. 2 through 4 turned out to be spot on, but...Thanks. 2 through 4 turned out to be spot on, but number 1 not so much. Obama-mania went poof faster than I thought it would. The average human being is more rational than I had thought.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-48831411175568182682010-09-25T22:33:10.893-05:002010-09-25T22:33:10.893-05:00am reading this post 2 yrs after the fact
quite p...am reading this post 2 yrs after the fact<br /><br />quite prescientAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-8505053523792346862008-10-15T06:54:00.000-05:002008-10-15T06:54:00.000-05:00Excellent assessment. Like 1960 Nixon represented ...Excellent assessment. Like 1960 Nixon represented the older religious conservatves while sexy young bright Jack Kennedy, son of a bon vivant bootlegger was the ladies choice, also attracted alot of youth and he was also running as a minority (Catholic). As they say elections reflect us and of course the 25 year difference in age between McCain and Obama makes this election generational.<BR/><BR/>Econmically speaking the most underated factor is still NAFTA and after all of these years we are a nation which is economicaly as well as demographicaly more integrated into Latin America. Terrorsim anf the Mid East wars have provided the smoke and mirrors for this for the last 8 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-83336368682834617952008-10-14T23:10:00.000-05:002008-10-14T23:10:00.000-05:00I've never thought that the fact that the invasion...I've never thought that the fact that the invasion plan originated elsewhere detracts from the amateurishness (mildest word I can think of) of what Kennedy actually did. It is impossible to imagine Eisenhower carrying out that particular plan, as JFK executed it. As I recall, Kennedy did change the plan in a way that made it markedly worse from the original version. He withdrew the US Air Force support for the amphibious invaders. And at the last minute. And after promising the poor, doomed Cuban expatriates that they would get it. And he did that for the morally worst possible reason: to (he thought) make it harder to detect his responsibility for the attack. All of this is my trusting old memories, I admit. I think it's a pretty good object lesson about the wisdom of electing a Pres who doesn't know what he (or she) is doing.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-66257413967793028372008-10-14T21:43:00.000-05:002008-10-14T21:43:00.000-05:00The Bay of Pigs invasion originated in the waning ...The Bay of Pigs invasion originated in the waning days of the Eisenhower administration. The planning and organization, if it can be called that, was performed by he CIA, loosely supervised by Vice President Nixon. Kennedy's big mistake was in not cancelling it altogether. Years later, the declassified report by the CIA's own Inspector General concluded that the CIA was responsible for the invasion's failure.<BR/><BR/>One of the reason's Kruschev placed nuclear missile's in Cuba was in response to Csstro request to provide him with something to deter any further American invasion attempts.Peter L. Winklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005846686173676213noreply@blogger.com