Still crazy after all these years

After demonizing JFK for decades, now they want to welcome him as their own? Over the Nov. 22 weekend, many republicans have expressed the belief that JFK was a conservative. One person even said that he would have been a classic member of the tea party.  Yikes! What have they been reading? Or drinking? If only they could have known John F. Kennedy as we knew him. I have spent the last 15 years reading many biographies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his family. Believe me, no one would ever believe that he was a conservative. When he flew into Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the president knew that he was flying into an area in which many people hated him. After all, he was there to mediate a battle between liberal and conservative Democrats in Texas. {Today no such liberals can be found in that state.) In fact, Texans called him a communist, a socialist, a person who is spending money like a drunken sailor. A full-page newspaper ad on Nov. 22 charged him with treason.  Sound a

.... and you will find results like this Wyoming Senate Poll: Enzi Leads Cheney by 52 Points http://www.nationaljournal.com/off-to-the-races/why-is-cheney-running-for-enzi-s-wyoming-senate-seat-better-question-why-not-20131118

                   … Jesus Christ was a liberal So, lay off Pope Francis! Yes, Sarah, Jesus Christ was a liberal, and Pope Francis recognizes that the Catholic Church has lost its moorings with Jesus's teachings over the past 35 years. It has forgotten that Jesus was a man of love, a man of peace, a man who cared deeply for the common people, particularly for the poor, the least of our brethren.  Jesus was a person who wanted change in the world, and he pleaded with 12 men to follow him. They did so, but what Jesus was preaching was a radical thought in those days. That is why Jesus was eventually crucified.   Jesus was also a man who believed in inclusion, not in excluding people from God. He believed in equality and tolerance.  In short, that is what Pope Francis has been practicing since his elevation earlier this year.  Pope Francis has shocked the right wing of the Catholic Church by walking into slums to embrace the poor people, simply wanting to bring G