Then I remember how much work goes into the blog I have, and I recover.

LB, keeping one’s arms crossed when considering politics and politician’s is always a good stance.

Since writing this post, the mud machines have sped up their flingings at Barack. We knew it was going to happen, I guess — hopefully he’s ready for it.

I just expected it would come primarily from the Republican mud machine, and not from Hillary’s “braintrust” (to use the term advisedly).

Bosque-, I’ve been feeling a little less sympathy for Hillary of late. I just find how Barack has conducted himself generally far more admirable than how she has conducted herself — and after the last eight years, it would be nice to have a leader who is both respectable and respectful.

I remember I got all excited and even a little smug when the Democrats took back the House and Senate. Yay!, I naively thought, we can take finally take our country back. And what has been accomplished? Nothing.

Perhaps when it gets closer to the election I can start to muster some hope and enthusiasm. But for now . . . well, my arms are still crossed.

Yes, I think a lot of people remember the “Camelot” era quite fondly. My mother was one of them. You are indeed correct, it was a totally different situation and time than now, so again, a detailed comparison is impossible.

I understand about LBJ. He did all the work there and Nixon took all the credit. That seems to happen a lot (for good or evil). What did Dubya say? The Clinton administration set us up for 9/11? Let me get you out of Dick Cheney’s pocket for a minute, bub, so you can rethink that statement.

Interesting about the FDR thing, isn’t it? I’ve been tweaked about that before. Yes, I think we should do a topic just on FDR. He was my favorite president and my father’s as well, and he was the Goldwater Republican. One of the things I’d like to ponder is whether a New Deal would work today. It is hard to say.

Yet when I look under the surface, at the substance of these men, they seem very different — and that’s what I meant.

Kennedy was there when it was still post-WW2 easy, in comparison to now. He had the glamorous wife, the martinis, yachting off Hyannisport, and Marilyn Monroe singing happy birthday.

Sure, there was a cold war, but in many ways dealing with one large, stolid superpower is easier than dealing with Al Qaeda in particular and muslim fundamentalism in general from Algeria through Iraq and Afghanistan all the way to Mindanao.

If you look at a lot of 60s civil rights legislation, it isn’t like Kennedy was pushing the envelope. The Great Society was LBJ, and a surprising amount of it got signed (and twisted and tweaked) by Nixon.

I don’t see Kennedy as being about change, so much. NASA doesn’t mean a lot to me. Barack comes from a different place, with a very different angle on a very different world — more to say, but I’m opting for concise.

Btw, I’m intrigued about being an FDR type and staying out of primaries due to a lack of libertarians. As my sense of FDR is the father of many of America’s most successful experiments in socialism, this is surprising — a good post topic?