Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for June 04, 2020

“Freedom is incomplete” should be a hashtag…. Thank you, Brian, for unearthing this!!!

Back when we had a REAL PRESIDENT, and NOT a posturing CHICKENS#!T FRAUD AND TRAITOR like we are stuck with now…

AND… for ANOTHER EXAMPLE of a REAL PRESIDENT… https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1267890952934391809

JFK had a great speech writer, Ted Sorensen. No doubt Kennedy had much input into his speeches, but he wisely asked for extra input from professionals. It should be a maxim (originally referring to physicians) that in important topics, the man who writes his own speeches has a fool for a speechwriter. From what I read, even Lincoln took advice in structuring his speeches.

Who the hell was that commie rat? How’d he get to speak in public like that? – The XXI century National Socialists

john, bobby, martin – they shot all our heroes and left us with the dreck we’re putting up with today…

I can still hear the cadence and accent in his speeches.

Wow. I have tears in my eyes reading that. Kennedy had many faults, both personal and policy, he aspired to do better and inspire us to better.

I miss that.

Kennedy would never get elected today. American voters are too smart to fall for a whiny, womanizing … Uh, perhaps I should delete this comment.

To bad the right wing shot him.

Thank you Brian

Wow! Thank you, Brian. Such a great speech for then and for now.

JFK would be 103 if he were still alive.

Thanks, Brian!

Excellent choice for this particular time.

History has shown us over and over again, that the thoughts in the last two panels are right. Too bad we are only a little better 60 years later.

10 June the speech, 22 November, the death.

And it’s been all downhill ever since.

“I take no responsibility for ANY of it!”

And modifying a line from Jan. 20, 1961 — there will be voters participating in this election “born in this century”. Please, please, please vote wisely. And by wisely, I mean not for 45.

I speak not in condemnation,Mr. Carroll, but merely to note,in passing , that president Kennedy’s magnificent words are just as salient today as when he spoke them almost 70 years ago -salient and unfulfilled to this day.

The “shining city on the hill” that would be referenced by one of his successors was then and continues to be to this day built on a foundation consisting of empty promises, outright lies and sheer ‘puffery’ that boggles the mind.

We had video and audio of the actual murder by our authorities of a black man for the “high crime” of possibly, maybe trying to pass a counterfeit bill at a store to buy cigarettes.

Police were called, and, when they arrived, several minutes later, the “criminal” was found sitting on his car outside the store with friends.

He was arrested, thrown to the ground, handcuffed and, when he continued to profess innocence, had two officers kneel on his back (thereby compressing his chest) while a third knelt on HIS NECK for over eight minutes – the last three minutes was AFTER one arresting officer had stated that he could no longer find a “pulse”.

The whole sequence was captured by video and audio and was attested to by multiple onlookers and it STILL took 4 days for the first charges of murder to be brought against the assailants, because they were “police” – 4 days!

We may have had “greatness” at the top at one time (we no longer can delude ourselves on THAT front) but the core of our governing has always been rotten, and continues to be so, and will continue to be “rotten” until we can change at a fundamental level – and far too many people have too great an investment in the “status quo” to allow any great amount of change to occur at the lowest level, where it’s needed.

Where is Ted Sorenson now that we need him? [sorry—in a bad mood because of the Trump virus and the Trump riots]

The Cuban missile crisis was only 9 months old when this speech was given. Implicit references found in Cartoon panels #3, #5, and the last.

Seniors graduating with this speech would have seen the Crisis at the beginning of their Senior year.

On a side note, as that 5 year mark gradually approaches, I personally want to thank Brian for creating one of the brightest spots on the GC Polycart pages. This series has been a complete mix of enlightening, funny (In Peach? Mint!), serious, thought-out, thought-provoking, memorable, and wonderful examples of the art. Please know that if you go, MANY will miss you. Straight Up.

And of course we killed this man because he didn’t dominate the battle space.

In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

And here we are now.

Very nicely abridged indeed! It always heartens me to hear a president being… presidential… in their speech: Using polysyllables and complete sentences. Crafting paragraphs that build on and support each other and creating a sense of unity for those addressed. Sigh.

JFK – the last Democratic President worth more than a hill of beans. Why can’t the Democratic party come up with more people like him? Please!!

Such a contrast between the first President I became aware of as a child and the dolt who is in that office now, as I approach senior citizenhood.

Thanks for this, Brian.

Thank you.

Four days in a row.

I knew it would be too good to last.

Here we are embroiled in a fierce constitutional firefight, and the heavy reinforcements are nowhere in sight.

Where in hell is our boy James “Mad Dog” Madison when we need him most?!