Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months, 3 weeks ago40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.
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unome22 months, 3 weeks ago
I think there is little doubt that the world would have been a far better place if the CIA had not killed Robert Kennedy.
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the ways the world would be a better place, is if people were more grownup and did not turn tragedy into conspiracy drama.
Kennedy was hated by Mafia types, by racists, by pragmatic conservatives, by a host of bad guys that one would be proud to have oppose you.
A nutcase of no interesting character killed Robert Kennedy.
Not the CIA, FBI, KGB, or CBS. The significance of his death does not need conspiracy; the loss to our country does not need flavoring with paranoia.
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unome22 months, 3 weeks ago
People had done extensive research and found photographic evidence that their were several known CIA agents in the room when Robert Kennedy was shot, They were not there to protect him.
For some reason the CIA does not wish to discuss it.
I guess people should draw their own conclusions.
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 3 weeks ago
Robert Kennedy was himself one of the most rabid racists ever to serve as Attorney General. If you would like to learn about how he tried to stifle the Civil Rights Movement and blackmail Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., you need only to read Taylor Branch's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of King, "Parting the Waters."
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
The book would take a while to read it, Oscar. You counting on that?
Instead here is a web article where Taylor Branch talks about Kennedy: it isn't flattery but that makes it more trustworthy.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/2000/000...
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libsRfunny2 months, 3 weeks ago
"I think there is little doubt that the world would have been a far better place if the CIA had not killed Robert Kennedy."
That's about as stupid and ignorant a statement you could make. People are bitching about the story/rumor over Michelle Obama's alleged "whitey" rant, but idiots come out with crap like accusing the CIA of assassinating RFK.
As far as what RFK could have done, the story posted above is no more than idol worship. No one knows what impact RFK might or might not have had.
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 3 weeks ago
Robert Kennedy's perceived "successes" and the benign image he enjoyed at the time of his assassination stand as emphatic testimony to the importance of a good press agent. How he is remembered today is at sharp variance to the duplicitous schemer who served as Attorney General, Presidential adviser and confidante, and Senator from New York.
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 3 weeks ago
I judge him by what he actually did, not by what his speech writers wrote for him to say, and not by the fact that he is adored by uneducated and simple-minded sycophants.
I can understand why such a criteria for judgment would be beyond your comprehension.
If Taylor Branch's book has too many big words for you, try Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot."
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
Here is a web page of very moving quotes by Bobby Kennedy.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
This is the one that struck me most at the moment:
"For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.
This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all."
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TrueProgressive2 months, 3 weeks ago
FTA: "With the hindsight of 40 years, I can clearly see how different the world would have been had Bobby Kennedy lived. His assassination was even more significant, and ruinous, than the deaths of his brother, John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King Jr."
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. We wouldn't have had Nixon, and there would have been no Reagan, which means we and the world would have been spared the current monkey brained degenerate and all of the vile consequences he's brought with him.
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jumpmaster2 months, 3 weeks ago
But you must be seated in the lotus position with your forearms resting on your knees and fingers extended and joined at the tips.
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pcknowledge2 months, 3 weeks ago
Neophile, thank you for remembering him with this post. My mother remembers crying the day Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. What a tremendous loss. We always keep the hope alive that one day another person with his character and vision for America and the world stands up and is elected as President.
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Charlson2 months, 3 weeks ago
I cried for John, Martin and Bobby and I'm not ashamed to say it. We lost three men who never were able to see their vision come to fruition in their lifetime.
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LuisR2 months, 3 weeks ago
Let those naysaying conspiracy nuts have their say, it doesn't mean anything anyway! Robert Kennedy would have been a great President had he not been asassinated, but then who would Kennedy would have chosen as his running mate had he lived all the way to the fractious Democratic Convention in Chicago 40 years ago? Wouldn't matter though, since back then the Democrats were being held hostage by old-school political bosses such as then-Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Maybe the country would have been better off had George Wallace became President.
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aceofspades12 months, 3 weeks ago
They just changed the name of the TriBorough Bridge in NYC to the RF Kennedy Bridge - very apropos, seeing that the bridge has three different destinations - much like RFK's agenda
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aceofspades12 months, 3 weeks ago
I wonder how many of you were older than 5 years in 1968 & actually saw RFK grandstanding or his brother screwing up Cuba, Viet Nam, Marylin, Mayor Daly's political machine that gave them the election of 1960. Or RFK playing footsie with Sam Giancana as long as he served his purposes, or papa joe Kennedy, the Nazi lover .
Or Life Magazines' over the top depiction of camelot? - Yes the world would be a very different place had RFK won the precidency - we wouldn't be here discussing this sleazeball in an open forum
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HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
Get a life for Murphy's sake, FDR made deals with the mob, JFK screwed up nixons and the cia's plan for Cuba, the cia screwed up Viet Nam with their assassinations and it was johnson and nixon that prolonged it.
And I was 17 when he was killed, were you even around?
And if he was a sleazeball. he was still miles above what has been in control for the last 25 years
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crghss2 months, 3 weeks ago
Man, this guy must still be smoking the same stuff he was in 1969. "His assassination was even more significant, and ruinous, than " Martin Luther King Jr death. This statment is almost criminal. King changed the country in ways no one even dreamed possible. The only change I remember the Kennedy's being responsible for was the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam. USA bulling the world? Remember the USSR. HELLO!!!!!!!!
"the royal heir"
Sorry but my America doesn't have any Royalty. My ancestors left that all behind in Europe. If this guy and his buddies want to bow down to their Royalty they're free to do so. Me and my friends bow to no one.
He says " a dreary progression of conservative, uninspiring leader" followed his death "Of course he was denied the opportunity to lead us there, but he showed us the way." Which is it?
What a revisionist remembering a person that didn't exist.
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