So, RW pundits have been comparing Bush's speech to JFK's

[ZombieNixon]

First of all, what utter crap. But I have sworn off MSM, so what have they been saying?

[pinkpops]

1. Ax not what you can do for your country -

[SnoopDog]

2. Who? Where? Link?

[ZombieNixon]

3. I dunno, I thought I heard in on FAUX

(that's all they play in my crappy school), so I was hoping DU could provide some answers.

[SnoopDog]

6. Just my opinion...

Nothing is real until you can provide a verifiable source. Maybe you should do a search on it first.

I responded because the criminal we call * is no JFK..

[ZombieNixon]

13. OK...

NewsMax: "That was the greatest inaugural address since John F. Kennedy's and one of the five or six greatest of all time," (Dick) Morris told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Thursday night.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/1/21/71630.shtml

[SnoopDog]

15. Thank you Z.Nixon......for your update....!

[Up2Late]

24. Oh Jesus, Lord help us

Yup, NewsMax IS the place to go if you are a Right-wing Wack-job, and you need the freshest SPIIIIIIINNNNNNN!:crazy:

[ZombieNixon]

26. Morton Kondracke:

"soaringly eloquent...(echoed of) Woodrow Wilson with overtones of JFK."

:puke:

Sorry, no link.

[noamnety]

11. It wasn't just fox

I heard similar garbage, so probably it was CNN; I wouldn't have been watching fox. I remember shutting it off and saying to the husband "They did NOT just compare him to JFK."

[RobertSeattle]

4. Here's my prediction...

In 30 years some future RWers will be going "The modern Democrats should be more like Bill Clinton - now that was a Democrat I could get behind".

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Why are they comparing him to a Democrat? What is the reasoning

behind that? Trying to liken Bush to a Democrat icon? Are they kidding? What comes to mind is Lloyd Bensen's remark to Dan Quayle during their VP debate:
"I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

[Laurab]

7. Not to mention Caroline Kennedy's telling *

to stop using her father's name in vain. Well, it wasn't exactly that, but it was something like that. Caroline keeps a very low profile, so I think she had to be really pissed.

[miss_kitty]

8. what?

As in "JFK wasn't full of crap" compared to "the cheneybush junta just added a few more feet to their already towering pile of bullshit"?

[marcologico]

9. yeah I thought I caught a few garbled echoes in the clips I heard.

Mostly in the "we will bear any burden to assure the survival and success of liberty" department. Leave it to Dubya to plagiarize JFK to try and whitewash his bungled oil war.

[HarrietBrown]

10. I knew this was coming--I think the speech was designed to call on

Americans to do "big" things, the same way JFK's did. I think they were striving for a JFK inaugural address comparison--that was just the sense I got when I heard bits and pieces of it. I haven't read *'s yet (don't know if I can) but last year I compared his first to JFK's, and it was a laughable comparision. I'm sure this one is too.

[Up2Late]

12. What total Bull Sh*t

They didn't say that on NPR, You should hear this:

All Things Considered, January 20, 2005 · Robert Siegel talks with Allan Metcalf, author of Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush, about President Bush's inaugural speaking style. Metcalf notes misplaced emphases that weaken the speech, along with other telling moments.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4460523>

Or this one with Zabignue Brzezinski (don't know the spelling, He was Carter's SoS) <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4461900>

This was a good interview with Nancy Pelosi too
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4461867>

I also heard someone say this weekend, that hi NEVER mentioned Terror in this speach, but now he's on to tyranny:tinfoilhat:

[JDPriestly]

14. I still think it was a

shoddy takeoff on FDR's Four Freedoms speech. Google Four Freedoms Roosevelt and you will find the speech. Of course, Bush lacks the commitment to fairness and human rights that Roosevelt had, so Bush's speech is merely a hollow imitation.

[mrdmk]

17. Actually, it may worse than that

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0123-05.htm

The above link maybe a bit of a stretch, but worth the read.

[SnoopDog]

16. JFK was an honorable man and a real & elected president.

The current criminal and barbaric president that occupies the WH could never be compared to a president with honor, ethics and respectability.

[GRLMGC]

18. What the fuck are they smoking?

I certainly don't want any of it if it leaves you stupid.

[zulchzulu]

19. Comparing John Tesh to Ludwig Van Beethoven

I can't stomach the phoniness and utterly transparent and awful attempt at trying to be "profound" than to hear Chimp's speech.

The mere fact that the words "freedom" were uttered at the same time some cop was spraying an American protester with pepper spray near where I was standing made my blood rage...I've never been so ashamed of America and am still recovering from the absolute horror I feel from seeing so many people adoring this flim-flam man.

What a fraud....an absolute fraud.

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[marcologico]

21. Well, look at it this way: what other moral compass do they have,

besides maybe the Bible, which I'm sure Dubya's never read? Basically the NeoCons are in a pickle and reaching for the best cover they can find.

[robbedvoter]

22. yeah, same speech, only a dumb, evil and demented version of it

:eyes:

[zann725]

23. My response: "You're NO John Kennedy."

Not by a long shot!

[MADem]

25. They can certainly compare the speeches!!!

But unless they are on serious drugs, they can only come to one conclusion: JFK gave one of the finest speeches in inaugural history, and the bozo's speech, crafted by seven or so different guys and rewritten twenty two times, SUCKED. That's the only conclusion you can come to--one speech memorable, the other not. One superb, the other lousy.

[babylonsister]

27. The -ahem-esteemed Liberman compared

JFK and FDR's speeches to Blivet's today during hearings.:eyes: