Opinion
(2008-06-04)
null
null
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama arrives for a discussion on protecting home ownership at the College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas
"Kennedy was hopeful and optimistic about the goodness of America. His assassination was only one of many national traumas in a year filled with national traumas," Logue recalled.
"Now another young charismatic candidate is taking a substantial segment of the United States by storm. One of his opponents has raised the specter of Bobby's assassination. She did so in attempting to make a relatively unrelated contemporary point, and she did it clumsily, inadvertently, and apparently without malice," Logue said.
Addressing young Americans, Logue said, "If you truly want to understand why the visceral reaction to Clinton's remarks was so emotional and so indignant, try to understand your parent's or grandparent's anguish about their generation's equivalent of political paradise lost some 40 years ago." © Copyright 2009, wmot
