Frank Rich on Obama-JFK parallels

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http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/jfk-2011-11/

Written before Obama's re-election.

Kennedy could not run today as a Democrat in their primaries.

The Teaparty are Republicans under a different name who are more mobilized and focused on carrying out what they haven't been able to finish since Reagan. They are not the Salafi's, they are not the Nazi's, they are not a fringe-movement.

Obama is not wary of the Institutional Left. He doesn't want to go down in history as a sh*ty president in a center right country, it is wiser to tread to the Left of Bill Clinton then to be a straight up pawn of the Left. I don't know as much about Kennedy since he did authorize collective bargaining for public unions.

I've personally made the comparison concerning their foreign adventurism, JFK hiring his dad's mob buddies to try and whack Castro among other shenanigans, BHO initiating a whole new era of covert operations and assassinations and unilateral war declared by the executive branch. Looking back, it's less a question of who might of wanted Kennedy dead than who didn't, the list of potential suspects seems quite broad.

On a side note, Oswald actually took a shot at Edwin Walker, and extreme right character with ties to the John Birch Society, so I'm not really sure that a case can be made that it was right-wing rage at Kennedy that inspired the assassination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Walker

Yes they are.

Yah, and if he gets shot by some lunatic, he's probably gonna be made into a saint. Its a consistent pattern in western society that influential people who want change are reviled and despised up until they're murdered. Then, that's when we build statues of them, give them holidays, and even form whole religions around them. I really hope this doesn't happen to Obama, because the climate seems rather ripe for it. I hope those secret service men have his back.

I don't really buy the Warren Report. The fact the FBI destroyed all those other films you see rolling in the Zapruder film and that theres a many signs of deliberate tampering of evidence in the whole case makes me suspicious. The head shot doesn't look like it rang out from the Book Depository either, which was behind the motorcade. If you watch the film, Jacki's head appears right in front of his head at the moment it bursts into a mist of blood and gray matter. If that shot came from behind his head, the bullet would have gone through Jacki at the moment of exit.



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(Note where the car was at the head shot. and where Jacky is positioned in the video: body to his left and head in front of his).

Kennedy wanted to expose secret societies that undermined the democratic process (Bohemian Grove/ Bilderberg/ The Trilateral Commission) and wanted to shut down the Federal Reserve. He also refused to sign Project Northwoods, a contingency plan to stage fake terrorist attacks and blame it on Cuba as a precursor for going to war.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnEZ6FdE9mE[/youtube]

The way I look at it is if Obama is completely bought off, he has nothing to worry about, and we have a lot to worry about. If Obama isn't bought off, theres a good chance of him being killed, and powerful people will try to use his death to further erode our civil liberties and expand the police state.

Actually, there's the theory that Oswald had taken a shot - that missed - at Walker in order to cement his reputation as a leftist fanatic.
The Warren Report maintained little is known of Oswald's New Orleans activities aside from handing out Pro-Castro fliers, getting into a public fist fight with Anti-Castro Cubans, and appeared on a right wing New Orleans radio show to debate the one of the Cubans he had fought with. In fact, the New Orleans District Attorney's Office had later found Oswald had been associating with Anti-Castro extremists who had had ties to both the CIA and the Mob, all the while he was supposed to be a communist. These included Guy Bannister, who had been former FBI special agent in charge of the Chicago office, and former Office of Naval Intelligence agent, who in the early sixties had been running a CIA connected paramilitary training camp. A self professed anti-communist and pro-segregationist (with John Birch and Minute Man associations), Banister's specialty had been to infiltrate agents into leftist organizations (Oswald?). Some of the fliers distributed by Oswald had Bannister's office address printed on them - an office located in a building known to be a hive of Anti-Castro activity. Bannister had also been involved with CIA front organizations. He was also a Kennedy hater in the extreme, seeing his support for desegregation and perceived desertion of the Anti-Castro cause as communistic. Also working out of Bannister's office was David Ferrie, a CIA contract pilot and Anti-Castro soldier of fortune who had repeatedly threatened Kennedy's life for the Bay of Pigs disaster. Ferrie had had a pre-existing relationship with Oswald, who had served under Ferrie in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol prior to joining the Marines. Also included in Oswald's associations was Clay Shaw, who appears in the Warren Report under the alias Clay Bertrand, as having gotten Oswald previous legal representation. Shaw had been a successful New Orleans businessman who had also worked for the CIA and it's wartime predecessor, the OSS - and he was the only peson ever to be tried - and acquitted for the Kennedy assassination. Oswald's association with Shaw and Ferrie is well attested. Bannister and Ferrie were known for their violent right wing extremism. Shaw had been a self-professed liberal, though his business dealings with the CIA connected Permidex company involved former fascists also on the company's board of directors. Permindex had been involved with Guy Bannister regarding the transfer of guns and money for the Anti-Castro and Anti-DeGaulist fanatics in France. Incidentally, Carlos Marcello, the New Orleans Mob boss who had threatened both John and Bobby Kennedy's lives, had been involved with the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, was extremely right wing (including funding training camps outside New Orleans), and had employed Guy Banister's and David Ferries' services as "private investigators" prior to the Kennedy assassination.
So, that was my very long winded way of saying, yes, yes there were very good right wing suspects in the Kennedy hit.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer