What If RFK Had Become President?

Oh Please....Teddy never ran, becuase he could never have pulled it off. With the drinking and gambling and track of destruction he left in his wake he could never have been a viable choice. He is and was perfect for the job his has congressman in a state where if your name is Kennedy you can get anway with anything.

well would if ! !!!!! We would still be being run by the same people. All this country is is wHAt there trying to defend it is a legalized moffia they have created for themselves. I am sorry but look around people, do you live by near or around a local ,state, federal government employee of whom you employee LOOK HOW MUCH BETTER THEY ARE LIVINGTHAN YOU. WHY. FEAR A GOVENRMENT THAT LIVES BETTER THAN YOU.Something is seriously wrong. Kennedy did win, he is a dem just like the fake one obama that is what this article is really about not kennedy.We dont need another tax and spend jack ass dem in the office. all i know is my lifeandmy work has become better since gw came into office. the last job i lost was when clinton was in office.you ahve all missed the whole meaning behind this article. it is about obama the turbin wearing fool curious george looking fool. getting in office. you didnt fool us all NEWSWEEK

Mccain is a Bush Disciple and we all know how that has turned out. God help us if he is elected. We will be stuck in Iraq for the next twenty years.

Mr. Thomas forgets that the Bay of Pigs operation was planned under the Eisenhower administration, and was never really approved or disapproved by Kennedy (much as most modern historians forget that the first 'advisors' were sent to Vietnam in the period between 1955 and 1957, long before Kennedy was even a blip on the political radar of the time). Kennedy, in fact, withdrew the air support from it because he believed the invasion to be a wrong-headed waste that would send the wrong signals to the world, which proved to be entirely correct.
I also find the comment of McCainwillwin interesting, since I, too, believe Mary Jo Kopechne was murdered, but not, as implied, by Ted Kennedy. Based on the road layout, I believe there was another car on the bridge Kennedy drove off of, and he did drive off it to avoid that car. The occupants of that other car met Ted Kennedy on the shore when he got out, and advised him that he could either allow Miss Kopechne to die, or he could go back down into the car and 'join his brothers.' This makes at least as much sense as the unsupported allegation in McCainwillwin's comment, and has the benefit of not relying on believing Ted Kennedy was the drunken sod the right-wing press has played him as for far too long.
And Pat Paulson would have been no worse than anyone else who was running at the time; he, at least, had a genuine sense of humor.

If he had lived, we could have made him King, and lived happily ever after.

I have to say one more thing b4 I get out of here, the only kennedy that had half a brain, was the one daddy dearest had a lobotomy performed on. and for those who do not know what a lobotomy is. its an ice pick shoved up thru the eye socket into the brain!!! a real cute daddy , any of you that weeps for the rest of them, maybe you all should go get lobotomies

I think this article make a good point, largely forgotten by most. It was far from a foregone conclusion that RFK would even be the nominee. What did happen, with the untimely deaths of JFK, MLK and RFK was in my opinion much more powerful than if they'd lived. They were all immortalized and dare I say, Idealized. In the case of RFK, had he lived, I believe he would have probably lost the general election to Nixon, by a razor thin margin.

I think this article make a good point, largely forgotten by most. It was far from a foregone conclusion that RFK would even be the nominee. What did happen, with the untimely deaths of JFK, MLK and RFK was in my opinion much more powerful than if they'd lived. They were all immortalized and dare I say, Idealized. In the case of RFK, had he lived, I believe he would have probably lost the general election to Nixon, by a razor thin margin.

The savageness of man are documented in the book "Brothers The Kennedy Years". RFK would have made gentle the life of this world.

The Kennedy Era? Tell me the political and social contributions of either man. Neither ever passed any major legislation in the congress, neither was pro-civil rights and in fact Robert F. Kennedy when he was attorney general, gave his approval for the first wire taps against Martin Luther King Jr. because he feared Martin Luther King's movement. I am always disappointed in the Americans who fall vicitime to the Kennedy family's control over the media and the manipulation that occurs as a result. Now they are trying to cover for years of bigotry from the Kennedy clan under the guises of supporting Barrack Obama, to bad Obama was allowing it, it means he is subject to having to approve of bigots in order to win the election, not the most flatering realilty for a black man....

The Kennedy Era? Tell me the political and social contributions of either man. Neither ever passed any major legislation in the congress, neither was pro-civil rights and in fact Robert F. Kennedy when he was attorney general, gave his approval for the first wire taps against Martin Luther King Jr. because he feared Martin Luther King's movement. I am always disappointed in the Americans who fall vicitime to the Kennedy family's control over the media and the manipulation that occurs as a result. Now they are trying to cover for years of bigotry from the Kennedy clan under the guises of supporting Barrack Obama, to bad Obama was allowing it, it means he is subject to having to approve of bigots in order to win the election, not the most flatering realilty for a black man....

The savagesness of man who killed JFK and RFK are documented in the book BROTHERS The Kennedy Years. RFK would have made gentle the life of the world .

What If is a BIG word, What If Pat Pulson Became President.