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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
But JFK is the most recent, with plenty of people around who remember it. Plus there's the entirely superficial reason of people liking JFK more then Mc Kinley or Garfield (maybe not Lincoln, but that was way back there). Add in some good old Cold War paranoia for good measure. So, they stick to him more then others.
Killing a president is not something that happens often. Killing 2 members of a political dynasty as they are about to be elected (kennedy second term and Robert president) is a little bit suspecious.
There´s a proverb that says "where there is smoke, there is fire".
edited 12th Jan '13 10:00:27 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.Garfield and Mc Kinley both died more from trying to remove the bullet than the actual shot. In modern medicine rest assured they would've lived and that Guiteau would just be a John Hinckley and the anarchist who shot Mc Kinley would be a laughing stock.
Kennedy and Lincoln both were pretty much doomed from the shots they got in the head,no modern advances could've saved them.
And both of them were succeeded by a Democrat named Johnson
And the assassins both were in a storage area and theater and killed off before being put to trial.
Not sure what happened to Guiteau,but the anarchist got the electric chair,that's just not interesting.
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There is no telling if Robert Kennedy could have beaten Herbert H. Humphrey and Eugene Mc Carthy in the Democratic Primary even if he hadn't been assassinated.
That being said I could see Nixon or LBJ being willing to knock off a potential Spanner in the Works .
edited 12th Jan '13 10:16:45 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
It certainly doesn't help that JFK had a truck load of enemies.
Leon Panetta: Fiscal Crisis Poses Biggest Immediate Threat To Department of Defense.
Sorry to distract everyone from this fascinating discussion of assassination conspiracy theories, but Krugman just dropped an interesting tidbit in his blog today
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If this is true, it means that there are some actual brains operating in the Oval Office, and they're putting on a show for the media. I can only hope.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Because they can't say it themselves but want to reassure us through back channels? I'm puzzled, too.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Or it could be misdirection... Or pretending that it's misdirection... Or pretending to pretend that it's misdirection... Or...
Yeah, you get the idea.
edited 13th Jan '13 8:46:55 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.The only question one needs to ask about the assassinations of both JFK and RFK, and the question one needs to ask about all crimes is this:
"Cui Bono." Who benefited?
Who had most to gain by having the crime carried out and who gained the most benefit from the crime when it was carried out, which, in the end, is pretty easy to point out.
The man who became the 36th President of the United States of America.
Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Relying on cui bono is a logical fallacy.
edited 13th Jan '13 8:59:38 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Worked for Marcus Tullius Cicero. And he had a far less obvious patsy to defend.
See this for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Milone
Roman law was far more cutthroat, in all senses of the word, than our system of laws.
The White house loves to leak stuff when its convenient.
This is their way of saying "Hell Nah!" (lol, I know it isnt funny but I had to do it)
They are signaling that they have reached their breaking point, but they dont want to sound like they are being stuborn so they just want the media to talk about it before they do it themselves. Lets hope this interpretation (mine) is accurate. They have negotiated too many stuff away already.
edited 13th Jan '13 11:25:31 AM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.The problem the Democrats face is that they have to paint themselves as being willing to compromise so they have to take methods that would allow for compromise.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyThe last time we had a debt ceiling crisis, it resulted in a credit downgrade for the US government - explicitly stated to be because of the politicians trying to use the debt ceiling as a haggling point. I'm thinking the White House is trying to cut off a second such potential disaster before it starts.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.Powell: GOP has 'a dark vein of intolerance'
Senator Manchin (D-WV): Gun efforts should focus on culture of ‘mass violence’
"Cui Bono." Who benefited?
Who had most to gain by having the crime carried out and who gained the most benefit from the crime when it was carried out, which, in the end, is pretty easy to point out.
Under this logic, Theodore Roosevelt was behind Mc Kinley's assassination because he had the most to gain.
edited 13th Jan '13 1:43:50 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016It would not surprise me that Teddy's political enemies might have thought of such, considering they specifically wanted him in the VP seat so he couldn't keep busting their corruption. So when he became President...
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Representative Blackburn 'astounded' by level of violence in 'Call of Duty' video game

True, but previous presidents have been killed by "some random dude with a gun".
@Ace
Well its the Texas Supreme Court. That makes it political.
edited 12th Jan '13 8:51:39 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016