RB> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Sunday June 25 2017 at 10:36:
RB>>> Don't believe for a minute that Kennedy was a saint. He was only RB>>> lucky to be killed before the bad things about him came to light. A RB>>> rich boy with a crooked father who effectively bought him the RB>>> presidency.
MV>> When was the last time a poor boy with an honest father became POTUS?
RB> Try Obama. He may not have been rich, but his father, in Kenya, was RB> definitely not dishonest. Otherwise he would have stayed in Hawaii. And RB> he surely didn't earn millions by bootlegging during prohibition, like RB> Kennedy Sr. did.
RB> Learn your American history before you try to beat me on such points.
RB>>> I was pleased when "Cape Kennedy" reverted to "Cape Canaveral".
MV>> Hmmm... Kennedy was the POTUS to initiate the Apollo project that put MV>> man on the moon. That was almost half a century ago and no other MV>> nation has repeated that yet. He deserves some credit for that.
MV>> I don't support rewriting history.
RB> I don't either.That's why I (and not only I) was so angered when they RB> tried to change Cape Canaveral into Cape Kennedy. Why not change RB> Washington, D.C. to Kennedy, D.C.?
Is it still Kennedy Airport? What was it before? Something like Idewilde?
RB>>> The half dollars were bad enough. At least FDR deswerved to be put on RB>>> the dime.
MV>> If you say so...
RB> I do. He (FDR) was the man who made sure you (and the rest of Europe) RB> aren't speaking German nowadays. What did Kennedy do except to stand by RB> while the wall between east and west Germany was being built?
RB> "Ich bin ein Berliner" (spoken phonetically, without understanding) was RB> a cheap rhetorical trick the Germans unfortunately fell for.
" I am a doughnut!"
RB> Better choose your heros with more discretion.
Sure thing!
David
-- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
