http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/gillespie-on-kennedy-and-others-on-kennedy.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/gillespie-on-kennedy-and-others-on-kennedy.html/comment-page-1#comment-178728 Anonymous Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:45:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6037#comment-178728 The remorse is really touching. We really ought to sympathize with Kennedy: he really wanted to feel terrible about it, but his political ambitions kept those feelings bottled up. The remorse is really touching. We really ought to sympathize with Kennedy: he really wanted to feel terrible about it, but his political ambitions kept those feelings bottled up.

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/gillespie-on-kennedy-and-others-on-kennedy.html/comment-page-1#comment-178727 Anonymous Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:42:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6037#comment-178727 I don't share your concern, because I think any Congressman who would vote for it because of the Dead Lion, would have voted for it anyway. I don’t share your concern, because I think any Congressman who would vote for it because of the Dead Lion, would have voted for it anyway.

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/gillespie-on-kennedy-and-others-on-kennedy.html/comment-page-1#comment-178725 Anonymous Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:31:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6037#comment-178725 It seems to me "ignorant of human nature" treats Kennedy more generously than he deserves. Every human being with anything approaching his length of experience knows human nature. He simply chose to impose his set of beliefs on reality, and to ignore the mountains of evidence to the contrary. In doing so, because of the great power he enjoyed, he has done more damage to the political, economic and cultural fabric of this country arguably than anyone besides FDR and LBJ. He was a crook with a plausible-sounding excuse, that being the cause of the less-advantaged. The result: he robbed Americans at every level of advantaged-ness. And while I admit I cannot truly know his motivations, I suspect self-aggrandizement was much higher up the scale than compassion. It seems to me “ignorant of human nature” treats Kennedy more generously than he deserves. Every human being with anything approaching his length of experience knows human nature. He simply chose to impose his set of beliefs on reality, and to ignore the mountains of evidence to the contrary. In doing so, because of the great power he enjoyed, he has done more damage to the political, economic and cultural fabric of this country arguably than anyone besides FDR and LBJ. He was a crook with a plausible-sounding excuse, that being the cause of the less-advantaged. The result: he robbed Americans at every level of advantaged-ness. And while I admit I cannot truly know his motivations, I suspect self-aggrandizement was much higher up the scale than compassion.

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/gillespie-on-kennedy-and-others-on-kennedy.html/comment-page-1#comment-178721 Anonymous Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:24:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6037#comment-178721 If that is not a Mencken quote, it could be. If that is not a Mencken quote, it could be.

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/gillespie-on-kennedy-and-others-on-kennedy.html/comment-page-1#comment-178665 Anonymous Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:35:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6037#comment-178665 Remove the letter "i" from that second "d" word, and I'm with you. You can leave it in the first "d" word. Remove the letter “i” from that second “d” word, and I’m with you. You can leave it in the first “d” word.

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