http://infamousqbert.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/bobby/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:33:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://infamousqbert.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/bobby/#comment-192 PSturges Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:22:30 +0000 http://infamousqbert.wordpress.com/?p=375#comment-192 "Bobby" as a whole did not move me, but the ending - and hearing Robert Kennedy's speech over the chaos at the Ambassador Hotel - nearly had me in tears. I don't approve of everything that JFK did during his years in office, which is why I dislike it when people hold him up as a political golden calf, but I cannot deny that both JFK and RFK were great public speakers and persuaders, especially on the subject of civil rights. Lyndon Johnson may have been the one who actually signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts into law, but he couldn't touch a raw nerve of emotion like the Kennedys. “Bobby” as a whole did not move me, but the ending – and hearing Robert Kennedy’s speech over the chaos at the Ambassador Hotel – nearly had me in tears. I don’t approve of everything that JFK did during his years in office, which is why I dislike it when people hold him up as a political golden calf, but I cannot deny that both JFK and RFK were great public speakers and persuaders, especially on the subject of civil rights. Lyndon Johnson may have been the one who actually signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts into law, but he couldn’t touch a raw nerve of emotion like the Kennedys.

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