I remember Camelot

[Stinky The Clown]

I know they're the Obamas and not the Kennedys.

I know this is a different era.

I know all that.

But watching the Obamas arrive at the White House today, hearing of Michelle staying behind to meet with private schools for their two young children, watching the vigorous young President-elect walking easily along the Collonade. All of that brought back memories of Camelot.

And I am made to have hope once again.

I was a teenager then.

I'm an an older man now.

That was then and this is now.

But I am made to have hope ..... once again.

[eleny]

1. Replacing disgust with interest & anticipation is a nice change

[CatWoman]

2. You old goat!!

:P

[Lint Head]

3. Knowing how Camelot ended concerns me greatly.

I remember Camelot and all of the other great people that were cut down too soon. JFK, RFK, MLK, John Lennon. These are powerful people that promoted peace. There will be some people that says JFK did not want peace because the evidence is the Vietnam conflict.
Vietnam started under Eisenhower and JFK wanted to end it. He died just after saying he wanted the war to end.
:dem:

[Captain Hilts]

6. The release of papers does seem to suggest JFK wanted to greatly limit our...

participation in Vietnam.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I remember the intellectuals, artists and poets going to the white house

dinners. Jackie did a great job with that.

[lamp_shade]

5. I remember it well. In 7th Grade, Sister Mary Francis had us write letters

to Senator Kennedy wishing him well on his campaign. He wrote back. I wish I still had that (form) letter. I loved that family. After he was elected, I wore a pillbox hat to church every Sunday for a couple of years. Ah well.

[dflprincess]

10. We all wore pillbox hats to Mass after that

I was only 7 when he was elected and my spring and summer hats for church became pillboxes (in winter my mother still made me wear something warmer). I don't think there was a woman at church who didn't wear one.

[csziggy]

7. The big difference is that Eisenhower was not an idiot

And did not do his best to destroy our country.

But even though I was only 8 years old when Kennedy was elected, I remember the feelings of hope and energy after the blahs of the Eisenhower period. People were looking forward to a new decade, the space race, the improvements in education after Sputnik shocked everyone.

I just hope my nieces and nephews get the same positive feeling we had as kids!

[Stinky The Clown]

8. You know ..... it really **is** about those ......

..... positive feelings.

Think of Obama's three word mantra, "Yes We Can." That is nothing if not the essence of positivity.




(edit to add the word "know" in the title)

[curse of greyface]

9. It's just a model....