I made this mistake in 2008 of telling people we had finally won the election of1968 - which I meant the spirit of RFK had won. The last time I saw him live was the speech in Union Square in San Francisco in May 1968 when he said "some people look at things as they are and say why - I look at things that never were and say why not?" It r…
I made this mistake in 2008 of telling people we had finally won the election of1968 - which I meant the spirit of RFK had won. The last time I saw him live was the speech in Union Square in San Francisco in May 1968 when he said "some people look at things as they are and say why - I look at things that never were and say why not?" It really would be a different world if he had lived. He'd have won in a landslide.
Your second to last sentence--my sentiments exactly. And I agree with what I think you're saying--that Obama was no RFK. Like I may have said here, and definitely said on Today's Edition, I've been disappointed by every Democratic pres until Biden. While I have one major area of disagreement with him, the good he's doing far outweighs it.
Exactly - Obama was no RFK, though I mistakenly thought he was, till a week after the inuguration when he announced @#$%%##@@#!@!! Rahm Emanuel was going to be his CofS. At that point, I knew I had made a terrible mistake (though that year there wasn't an alternative that wasn't a worse mistake).
a funny thing I just remembered is that when RFK was running for the Senate (in, I'm pretty sure, '66), I kept finding myself in the same place he was. once at Jones Beach (of all places), once in Columbus Circle and, strangest of all, outside J&L Luncheonette two blocks from mine in Kew Gardens Hills. I remember it was a very hot day and he was sweating through his suit jacket sleeves. but Kew Gardens Hills? the only other time the place was in the news was when Mayor Lindsey came after a huge blizzard and everybody was cursing him out so thoroughly you'd have thought he created the blizzard. NOTHING ever happens in Kew Gardens Hills. NOTHING.
but RFK??? one of the strangest moments in my life.
and it wasn't even the coolest of the three available luncheonettes. the coolest was Jasol's, run by two Jewish gangsters from Montreal. the place was always full of middle-aged Jewish guys who wore stingy brim hats and were fixated on the many pay phones in back, which would ring and which they'd run to answer.
it was years later when I realized the place was what you could call an Informal Turf Accountancy.
I made this mistake in 2008 of telling people we had finally won the election of1968 - which I meant the spirit of RFK had won. The last time I saw him live was the speech in Union Square in San Francisco in May 1968 when he said "some people look at things as they are and say why - I look at things that never were and say why not?" It really would be a different world if he had lived. He'd have won in a landslide.
Your second to last sentence--my sentiments exactly. And I agree with what I think you're saying--that Obama was no RFK. Like I may have said here, and definitely said on Today's Edition, I've been disappointed by every Democratic pres until Biden. While I have one major area of disagreement with him, the good he's doing far outweighs it.
Exactly - Obama was no RFK, though I mistakenly thought he was, till a week after the inuguration when he announced @#$%%##@@#!@!! Rahm Emanuel was going to be his CofS. At that point, I knew I had made a terrible mistake (though that year there wasn't an alternative that wasn't a worse mistake).
I remember that as soon as I heard about the assassination, my immediate (and accurate) thought was "we are SO fucked."
a funny thing I just remembered is that when RFK was running for the Senate (in, I'm pretty sure, '66), I kept finding myself in the same place he was. once at Jones Beach (of all places), once in Columbus Circle and, strangest of all, outside J&L Luncheonette two blocks from mine in Kew Gardens Hills. I remember it was a very hot day and he was sweating through his suit jacket sleeves. but Kew Gardens Hills? the only other time the place was in the news was when Mayor Lindsey came after a huge blizzard and everybody was cursing him out so thoroughly you'd have thought he created the blizzard. NOTHING ever happens in Kew Gardens Hills. NOTHING.
but RFK??? one of the strangest moments in my life.
and it wasn't even the coolest of the three available luncheonettes. the coolest was Jasol's, run by two Jewish gangsters from Montreal. the place was always full of middle-aged Jewish guys who wore stingy brim hats and were fixated on the many pay phones in back, which would ring and which they'd run to answer.
it was years later when I realized the place was what you could call an Informal Turf Accountancy.
Gambling is the Great Vice of the Hebrews.
And sadly, the most likely reason he was assassinated