The Kennedy curse is living in the fast lane. Michael Kennedy died playing football while skiing and John, Jr. was an inexperienced pilot with an ankle injury from paragliding who picked a bad night to fly. No truth has been permitted to rain on the 1,000 days of the JFK parade. The Kennedys are wealthy and arrogant, possessed of scruples reincarnated in Mr. Clinton. The Clintons have given us a Dogpatch Camelot, all the Kennedy tricks with none of the style.
Rules are for mortals and morality for the uneducated.
The Kennedy mystique continues for no one dares speak ill of the anointed, something as awkward for democracy as Dolly Parton at Lilith Fair. There is the lying. Mr. Kennedy's chronic health problems, including his back pain, resulting dependence on amphetamines, and Addison's Disease, were concealed. Profiles in Courage was not only not written by Mr. Kennedy but became a best seller after Joe Sr. purchased 30,000 to 40,000 copies. There is the corruption.