Speaking of psychodramas, there is a whole bundle of unresolved projection & fantasy & trauma wrapped up in the lefty boomer’s regard for JFK.

Excellent observations, bogie wheel. But it’s not just lefty boomers. I am a late boomer (not old enough to remember JFK, old enough to remember Bobby)and recently I said something mildly critical of JFK when I was in the company of people roughly 10 years older than me. None of them are liberal, they detested Teddy, but they were very quick to defend JFK by saying his positions on taxation and defense would be considered conservative today. I didn’t argue the point because what mainly interested me was their rather touchy defense. All three of them were once Dems and the Greatness of JFK appears to be one item of Boomer faith they are unwilling to contemplate objectively or relinquish (P.J. O’Rourke does not get misty-eyed over the Kennedys, but then he came from a Republican family and returned to his roots after a fling with leftism.) Peggy Noonan said once that the country as a whole will never be able to come to a true valuation of the Kennedy presidency until the Boomers are dead. (I’d say the same is true of the Beatles – are they really that damn good, or do I think so only because my immediate elders have hammered the Brilliance of the Fab Four into my head since I was in kindergarten?)

Ironically, Kennedy was at a low point in the polls when he was killed. One reason to pray fervently every day for the continued good health and safety of Obama. Blame would of course be instantly laid at the feet of the tea partiers and the bitter clingers, Palin, Limbaugh, etc. One of the neatest tricks of leftists like Stone has been to make the Right, not the Marxist Oswald, culpable for the murder of JFK.