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Does anyone realize how much of Baracka's NOT groundbreaking speech was plagiarized from JFK's speech about

religion? Has he ever had an origional thought?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    A lot of similarities

    "While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that we have far more critical issues to face in the 1960 election; the spread of communist influence, until it now festers 90 miles off the coast of Florida the humiliating treatment of our president and vice president by those who no longer respect our power the hungry children I saw in West Virginia, the old people who cannot pay their doctor bills, the families forced to give up their farms an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space.

    These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

    But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in, for that should be important only to me but what kind of America I believe in.

    I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him." JFK

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I LOVE IT !!!

    WE NEED to make sure that EVERY man, woman, and child, KNOW how ANTI-AMERICAN Obama and his Reverend(S) ARE !!!

    Would a CONTINUAL 20 years of "second hand smoke" have a negative affect on the other people in the area ??

    Would a CONTINUAL 20 years of "Anti-American Preachings" have a negative affect on the other people in the area ??

    John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, was sworn in as the 35th President of THE United States of America, at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the NEED for ALL Americans to be ACTIVE CITIZENS, famously saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

    Please NOTICE that it said DEMOCRAT - NOT Socialist and / or Communist Democrat !!

    It means this country is only as strong as the people in it. It means get off your a$$ and do something!!!

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    The Democratic Elite make the rules and then they change them for their convenience !!

    The Elite Democrats feel like THEY know better than YOU who would be the best person to run the country !!!

    By the People and For the People !!!

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  • 1 decade ago

    He seems to believe he is the reincarnation of Bobby Kennedy!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    link?

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  • 1 decade ago

    yep! but many have been fooled!

    I think his 15 minutes of fame are over though....

  • 1 decade ago

    yeah. they were nothing alike. nice try.

  • 1 decade ago

    Can you back that up with specific references and comparisons please?

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