Dallas in 1963..

The anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination is upon us; I wanted to post this quote from William Manchester's book "Death of a President November 1963" from book 1, chapter 4 "Volunteer" page 288:
 "there were complaints that the city (Dallas, Big D) was being victimized, that left wing Eastern liberals and intellectuals were ganging up on Dallas conservatism. There was no remorse among the city's rightists on the afternoon of November 22. At 3:05 P.M., when 80 percent of the American people were in deep grief, an NBC camera panned toward a group of spectators outside Parkland's emergency response entrance and picked up a young man with a placard that read "YANKEE GO HOME" Barefoot Sanders was astounded to learn that although next day's Harvard-Yale game had been called off, interrupting the oldest football rivalry in the country, most Dallas County high schools were going ahead with plans to play under lights that Friday evening. When Warren Harding arrives home, a child who lived in his block said "I'm sorry your President died." Harding didn't know what to say. He puckered and then replied. "Son, he was your President, too. He was everybody's President." The child then shook his head. "He wasn't ours," he said. "My Mom and Daddy didn't vote for him. He didn't mean anything to us."
 On a side note, some people accused the Kennedy's of thinking of themselves as royalty, much parallel to the Obama family today and right wing accusations, slander and complaints.

Conservative Thinking, Values, Morals, Ethics

"Conservatives, on the other hand, have a very different view of democracy. For them democracy is supposed to provide them with the liberty to do what they want, without being responsible for others and without others being responsible for them. For them, there is only personal responsibility, not social responsibility. Indeed, providing public resources is, to a conservative, immoral, taking away personal responsibility, making people dependent, lazy, unable to take care of themselves. Removing public resources is seen as providing incentives, and individual liberty is seen as the condition in which you can carry out your incentives." -George Lakoff,