Ok Boys And Girls... Here's How It's Done:

[WillyT]

And all THESE corporate giants did, was raise the prices of their product!

Kennedy Denounces Steel Price Hike (1 min 23 sec): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAVAJ6mwBVE

:shrug:

Use the Bully Pulpit, and SPANK THEIR ASSES!!!

:banghead:

[Dawson Leery]

1. K/R

[Catherina]

2. Kennedy was an old time Democrat, not this reinvented hybrid. Rec'd n/t

[hedgehog]

4. Don't forget, Kennedy was criticized for saying this:

"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now."

If Obama said anything like that, he'd be accused of being a Marxist!

[EFerrari]

16. Didn't they call JFK a commie and worse?

:)

[H2O Man]

25. Yes, indeed.

An infamous book was released shortly before Dallas, that "proved" JFK was a commie enemy-of-the-state. By sheer coincidence, it was authored by a CIA employee named Victor Lasky.

[WillyT]

33. Way Worse... These Were All Over Dallas The Day Before And The Morning Of...

:evilfrown:

[EFerrari]

36. You know, looking back to that trip, so many people didn't want him to go

to Dallas and that was before teevee was 24/7 and before the internets. It was in the air and people felt it. My mom worked 40+ hours and my grandmother didn't even speak English but I remember them talking over my head about how he shouldn't go there.

[mix]

5. +1 nt

[hedgehog]

3. How prescient - the executives he was chiding continued on their

way and took the steel industry down to ruin in the next 20 years!

[WillyT]

6. LOL !!! - Somebody Unrecced JFK !!!

Christ...

:beer:

:wtf:

[havocmom]

10. sad day on DU

Sad people

[Bluebear]

11. OMG . . .talk about disrespecting old school!

[Catherina]

15. Is it any wonder? Kennedy fought everything Obama is supporting. n/t

[Fearless]

26. +1

[chill_wind]

17. OY!

Here's one. K & R for JFK.

[havocmom]

7. Willy, I've been thinking about that since about day 7

And lamenting that so many Americans have never experienced that sort of advocacy/leadership in their memory.

Thank you Thank you Thank you for posting the video link

[WillyT]

13. You're Welcome !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[bluestateguy]

8. The analogous moment is Obama's denouncement of the Blue Cross premium increase

nt

[Laelth]

9. Good idea.

That's a much better plan than listen and pray.

:dem:

-Laelth

[mix]

12. Obama is a prisoner of his ideology, not his temperament.

He is essentially a neoliberal technocrat...the market and the experts will solve everything, except when they don't.

That's what prayer's for.

[Laelth]

18. Interesting assessment.

The evidence suggests it is accurate too. That's sad, really.

:dem:

-Laelth

[readmoreoften]

29. Excellent post. "Neoliberal technocrat" is a perfect way to describe him.

And, yes, that's what prayer is for.

[nashville_brook]

14. buuuuuuuut, that might hurt someone's feelings.

[Bosso 63]

19. and then they shot him.

[WillyT]

20. Well... If We're Afraid Of That...

Then we don't have much of a country left.

And political involvement is just a giant circle jerk.

I refuse to believe that.

:shrug:

[Bosso 63]

22. I just finished reading "JFK and the Unspeakable"

while I was visiting family in the Bible belt.
The combination has left me a little depressed and cynical.
Nonetheless, we have to keep moving forward.

[MichiganVote]

24. "We"? Ain't no "we" about being Prez. and getting shot at. Its not exactly part of the job role.

[WillyT]

27. Where Did You Take YOUR History Classes ???

No, it's not part of the job description, but it's part of what every President is forced to ponder. Otherwise there would be no need for a Secret Service.

What I was responding to, was the above poster who implied that JFK took on powerful interests, and got shot for his meddling. If the poster believes that, and thinks that the President (ANY President) would be wise to watch his back if he dares to mess with with those powerful forces...

Well then if that's true... in my opinion, our experiment in Democracy has failed.

If a President moderates his beliefs and policies based on the fear of getting shot... we're done.

:shrug:

[MichiganVote]

32. So a democracy is done, as you put it, whenever a president moderates

his beliefs or policies on the fear of getting shot. What's the difference whether its getting shot or not getting re-elected?

Either / or may already have happened for all we know and yet here we are.

And since you are interested in my "History classes"...I double majored in undergrad and one major was in the field of History.

[WillyT]

40. "What's the difference whether its getting shot or not getting re-elected?"

What field of History was that again?

:wow:

[Cresent City Kid]

21. I'm cursing my dial-up

I'm going hunting for text of this. Thanks for posting it.

[MichiganVote]

23. Yeah? And he was murdered. Who did that help?

[WillyT]

28. So... JFK Should Have Kissed Big Steel's Ass ???

Just how weak of a President do you prefer?

And just who do you think is REALLY in charge?

And why bother with all this politicking/voting bullshit???

:wtf:

[MichiganVote]

30. Little dramatic reply dear.

You can't expect to criticize a companies decision making or its CEO's and then expect one person in one office of the government to somehow make up for scores of regulation screw up's. Its not rational.

So which is it? Obama the President of the United States or Obama the CEO of the United States?

[WillyT]

31. No, No, No... I Post A Video Showing JFK Using The Bully Pulpit Against...

a major U.S. industrial cartel, embarrassing them and almost calling them unAmerican on National TV, and you tell us... so what, he got shot, what did that get us???

JFK was My/Our President trying to shame the hell out of the greedy bastards running a major industry in this country, to the detriment of this country. And... trying to get them to reverse their policy.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT MY PRESIDENT TO DO!!!

I have to ask... what do you want from a president???

:shrug:

:wtf:

[MichiganVote]

34. The 20 Billion Obama got today w/o anyone getting shot works for me for now.

[WillyT]

35. Nice Avoidance...

And such low expectations.

Whatever...

:shrug:

[Mithreal]

37. Dumbest post of the day? You decide.

[Joe Fields]

38. Jesus.

[Joe Fields]

39. A little Teddy Roosevelt would go a long way right now, also.

Sorry, no youtube of Teddy available.

[MilesColtrane]

41. Nice to see a Democratic president display some genuine righteous anger at...

huge corporations.

Too bad it was almost 50 years ago.

[Spheric]

42. K&R /nt