Shades of 1960
By Eileen McNamara | Thursday, January 31, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Like Obama, Kennedy was a relative unknown only four years before he boldly sought the presidency. Both men came to wide public attention at their party’s previous national conventions. In 2004, Senator John F. Kerry chose Obama to give the keynote address at his nominating convention in Boston. Then a candidate for the US Senate from Illinois, Obama brought the house down with his speech on “The Audacity of Hope.” In 1956, Adlai Stevenson asked the convention in Chicago to choose his running mate and Kennedy mounted an impressive push for the vice presidential slot. He suffered a narrow loss to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, but when his scrappy bid was done, Kennedy was no longer an obscure junior senator from Massachusetts….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/31/shades_of_1960?mode=PF
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