Better Late Than Never

Personal encounters with politics, culture, and life in general

Politics Lost: JFK at the Houston Ministers Conference, 1960

Posted by Paul Chislett on December 7, 2007

See the full version at: melissarogers.typepad.com

I don’t fawn over the Kennedy mystique and the political system is beyond dysfunctional as long as we(the working class) allow capitalist elites to remain in charge; however, this performance by Kennedy - unrehearsed and beyond belief in today’s environment of attack ads and character assassination - could serve as a tutorial on how to address emotionally charged issues like religion in politics.

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