>>>>It was not as partisan then.
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>>>Checkout what was running in the Texas papers the week before the assassination. Hate is an ongoing theme in any society. Coverage was different, but the sheer nastiness in America during the early sixties still peeked through the more restricted media coverage. Anybody who worked civil rights in the South saw partisanship at its worst. It wasn't so much Dem/Rep since at that time the Dixiecrats were Dems. I think the people who hated Kennedy ( not just those who were political foes ) were a lot more vitriolic than the Obama haters. ( and for some of them his being an Irish Catholic was probably every bit as big a deal as half of Obama is to the racists. )
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>>You must be coding hard, you are writing English with spaced parentheses ;-)
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>>I know the history of the anti-Catholocism JFK faced and how they hit it head on in West Virginia. Seems a little quaint now, doesn't it? But that is our entire history of immigration. Each new wave is resisted, then they assimilate. Hispanics are the biggest wave yet and the same will happen with them. It's already happening. Something like 90% of second generation Hispanic-Americans speak English as their first language.
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>>I thought you thought it was the mob and Cubans who took out JFK?
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>>Don't get me started about someone trying to take out Obama, as our friend Mr. Kuhn put it so eloquently the other day. I am convinced someone will at least try. Every time I pop online for a news checkup I half expect it to be there.
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>Funny you should mention WVa. The most notable thing about the Dem primary there was Sam Giancana sending Skinny D'Amato with a suitcase full of money to buy the WV primary for JFK - part of the reason they felt betrayed by the brothers re both Cuba and Bobby's crusade against the mob.
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>The hatred against JFK was pretty real - Bircher stuff - but that isn't what got him killed.
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>I think our current President is very well protected from the greatest threat - racist or "patriot" nutcases. I am sure there are a steady stream of threats of even attempts, just as there are national security things that happen pretty regularly that don't make the papers.

I think you are right too, Charles. The SS learned from previous mistakes and have better methods and equipment now. Although Obama tends to move outside his security to shake a hand every now and then.