October 28, 2004

W IS NO JOHN KENNEDY...SADDAM IS GONE:

Kerry talks of accountability, Red Sox win (The Associated Press, 10/28/04)

John Kerry today accused President Bush of constantly ducking responsibility for his own actions, assailing the incumbent for the fourth consecutive day over the disclosure that nearly 400 tons of explosives were missing in Iraq.

Democratic candidate Kerry also said the Republican president's attempt to compare himself to John F. Kennedy was off the mark.

"When the Bay of Pigs went sour, John Kennedy had the courage to look America in the eye and say, 'I take responsibility, it's my fault," Kerry said, referring to a bungled invasion of Cuba in 1961.


The Senator is certainly correct that President Kennedy's failure to remove Castro was one of the signal failures of any recent presidency. After that the thread of his argument gets pretty frayed, since he's the one who says that he, like that earlier JFK, would have left the enemy in power.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 28, 2004 4:52 PM
Comments

I jumped on John Kennedy in a post below, but I just can't seem to resist. Without benefit of Googling or any research, my recollection is not that John Kennedy publicly admited his failure.

Yes those words may have come out of his mouth, but contemporaneously, "leaks" were made to the press that seemed to emphasize that the original plan was an Eisenhower operation. So you see (sshh, it really wasn't my fault)

Posted by: h-man at October 28, 2004 5:02 PM

Obviously Kerry has written off Florida...

Posted by: brian at October 28, 2004 5:14 PM

Has Kerry lost it, his reason I mean?

Posted by: luciferous at October 28, 2004 5:25 PM

I guess he's just going to keep repeating the "400 tons of explosives" line, even though ABC has reported it was more like 3 tons. Jackass.

Posted by: Twn at October 28, 2004 5:35 PM

Up, next: A big shout-out from the senator to Jimmy Carter for his courageousness in the botched Iranian hostage rescue attempt in March of 1980. That's the kind of leadership Kerry wants to put back in the White House.

Posted by: John at October 28, 2004 6:00 PM

Replacing Dulles, Bissell, & Cabell, with McCone,
Helms (the man who discouraged Agency men from
the Bay of Pigs operation; yet ran Mongoose, which
was expanding the problem) which led to the Cuban
Missile Crisis, and just short of WW111.

Posted by: narciso at October 28, 2004 10:36 PM

Kennedy was way in over his head wasn't he.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at October 29, 2004 1:55 AM
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