Which Assassination do you feel most tragic about??

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

RFK's assassination had the most emotional impact for me.
I was in 9th grade and he was my choice for President.

I well remember that night.
I deemed Robert Kennedy further to the left than his brother.
He was an enemy of America.
He was an enemy of personal freedom; he was a liberal, a dangerous liberal.

Well, you got one out of three right

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Of course, WWI was going to transpire with or without the Arch Duke's demise.

I respectfully dissent from all that certainty.

Dissent noted

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Considering how much of a turning point the years 1965-1975 represented to American history,
it's interesting to consider how differently things would have turned out if JFK and survived the attempt to kill him.

Yes; we 'd have had a more intensely leftist leader.

Than LBJ?

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I suppose for any assassination to be tragic in a historical sense an argument needs to be made that the opportunity for good or great things was extinguished along with the person's life. I tend to think that a continuation of the strong and largely principled leadership of MLK could have led to a more comprehensive and balanced societal advancement for African-Americans.

We know from the recently released Jackie Kennedy tapes,
that your idol, Bobby, did not join in your approval of King.
She quoted him as saying that he was "a terrible man" as I remember.

RFK was my choice for president when I was in 9th grade and I suppose it would be accurate to suggest he was, at the time, an idol of mine. He no longer holds that position in my esteem, but he hasn't assumed the position of World's Greatest Villain either.

I don't know that I really care what RFK or Jackie thought about MLK.

If as, I believe, Bobby's dissing Martin to Jackie had to do with his extra-marital adventures, the irony is beyond striking. It also doesn't change the opinion I expressed about MLK's likely legacy had he not been murdered.



David

Thank you, David, for once again indicting yourself as a soul-less, brain-less and somewhat less than human tub of excremental idiocy.
I don't need to argue with you; you indict yourself.

let the poor rot, right dave?

Lustig Andrei wrote:

Thank you, David, for once again indicting yourself as a soul-less, brain-less and somewhat less than human tub of excremental idiocy.
I don't need to argue with you; you indict yourself.

I 'll accept that as the gutless, commie surrender that it IS.





David

dave's a big ol' loudmouthed coward, andy...

Thank you, David, for once again indicting yourself as a soul-less, brain-less and somewhat less than human tub of excremental idiocy.
I don't need to argue with you; you indict yourself.

I 'll accept that as the gutless, commie surrender that it IS.





David

Listen to me, you dumb, arrogant, ignorant, chauvinistic SON OF A BITCH. You even intimate anything about me and a Commie connection one more time, asshole, and I will come to NYC better armed than you and find you.

Now, listen!!! I am going to tell you something about myself that is no business of yours whatsoever,

but that just might put things into better persepective for you. The reason I am an American (and a far better American than YOU, Jingoist)

is because near the end of World War II my family and I were fortunate enough to have espaced from the Communists who took over my homeland (Latvia). I have seen the Russian brand of Communism in action with my own eyes (not from the kind of propaganda horseshit that you and your type pypically rely on0.

By the time I was six years old I had probably seen more dead bodies than you've seen in your lifetime, many of them civilliansslaughtered by Russian Communist troops. For a very short time(no more than a week or so), my family and I were forced to live under a communist administration in Czheckoslovakia before being able to escape and seek refuge in the US Zone of OOccupation in Bavaria. We would have done anything to be free of any connection with Communism.

For you to accuse me of having sympathis toward anything like the Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist brand of Communism makes my blood boil and I want to hit you in the face, you asshole, with all the strength left in my 72-year-old arm.

I have served this country, my America, as an officer in the US armed forces. I have worked as a contractor for the US Department of State. Believe me, I know far more about Communism than you do, ****-for-brains.

Now that I've told you things you have no right to or need to know, I will tell you this: I love America. I love what this country stands for.

It is jerks like you that make us unpopular in the rest of the world.

You, David, are the classic example of the so-called 'ugly American'.

You excuse the actions of a monstrous dictator on the grounds that he opposed Communism.

Well, lah-di-dah and hand that man another kewpie bear.

You have no soul, David,

and Deb (dlowan) had it quite right when she said that you are one sick puppy.

Nah...I'm not angry....I just feel sad for you.

Thx, Rock.
10 paces is way too close. I'm a much better shot than that.

I understand that when "Wild Bill" Hickok shot Davis Tutt in a famous gunfight in the town square of Springfield, MO, it is estimated he was standing about 75 yards from his opponent. Both men fired at about the same time but Tutt's shot went way wild while Hickok calmly rested his gunhand (right hand) on his left forearm to get a more accurate sight- picture and drilled Tutt right through the ole ticker.

Whole affair was over disputed ownership of a pocket watch. I think my beef has more merit.

dave, you are so 1950...

Maybe your side of the pond, over here we still had rationing.