Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye

[Clinton Crusader]

[kentuck]

1. That's my wallpaper for today !

Thanks!

[ladjf]

2. But we did know that you had a fondness for your

brethren of the "Skull and Bones" clan. What were ye up to in the Tomb, Johnny boy, what were ye up to ?

[kentuck]

3. Did you see the same image as I ?

??

[ladjf]

5. Kentuck, I don't know ye image. I only know mine and it's one

of distrust. Please don't think ill of me in case we disagree on that,
particularly if we are together in the believe that Democracy has taken what may been a fatal hit in Nov. of 2004.

I had a difficult time with the knowledge that out of the citizen pool of many million Americans, we manage to choose two candidates from the same , small social club from one school. Two candidates who shared far too many things in common that I was uneasy about. And when Johnny Boy capitulated immediately after promising us that he had "reported for duty" and that he would see that "all the votes would be counted", I couldn't help but feel abandoned, save for my
colleagues on the DU, with whom I have a strong sense of connection.


What say ye, Kentuck?

[Clinton Crusader]

6. this thread is about JOHN F. KENNEDY, not JOHN F. KERRY

Please take this to another thread.

[candy]

10. Can't you read? n/t

[Clinton Crusader]

4. WTF? JFK went to HARVARD, not Yale....

is there an alert needed here?

[ladjf]

7. For Clinton Crusader:

"A little-known fact unites Democratic frontrunner John Kerry and President Bush: they are both members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. We speak with the author of "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power" that reveals details about the secret society and its members. "


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/23/0445212


jimf

[Clinton Crusader]

8. this has NOTHING to do with John Kerry..

This is in memory of JOHN F. KENNEDY

take this somewhere else.

[ladjf]

9. Apologies Crusader: I'm a bit preoccupied with the recent

election. I too was very fond of JFKennedy. In fact, like everyone else I recall exactly where I was and what I was doing when told that he had been shot.

[tabasco]

12. Get away from the internet if you are so preoccupied.

You ruined a nice thread with your irrelevant rants about a Yale fraternity.

[Padraig18]

11. I posted this last night, in the Lounge...

Padraig18 (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-21-04 04:56 PM
Original message
"Johnny, we hardly knew ye...". JFK : 1917-1963

Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 05:36 PM by Padraig18
Tomorrow marks the 41st anniversary of the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Some are not aware of the genuine affection and esteem that the people of Ireland had and still have for the late President, but I can assure you that where I was born (20 years after his death, I add), rare was the home that did not have a photograph of late President prominently and reverently displayed. To the Irish people, John Kennedy was not simply 'one of their own' who had 'made good'; he was a handsome, urbane and visionary man of peace and goodwill. He was a man who sought to reach out across the oceans and mountains and deserts of the world to touch the people who lived there, and to appeal to their common humanity in the search for solutions to the world's problems. He was the son of a rich man whose heart broke at the injustices done to the poor; a white man, he sought to free people of color and make them fully equal before the law.

I'll go to Mass tomorrow morning and light a candle for him, say a prayer for the repose of his soul, and wonder, as I do every year, what might have been, had he lived.





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[Clinton Crusader]

13. That's beautiful, Padraig18

thanks for posting that, I missed it.