Dallas Adult Entertainment: A blonde in every pond
He ended his oration with: ”As he (Robert) said many times, in many parts of this nation … ’Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not’.”
It wasn’t until years later that The Magpie discovered even that noble (and most apt) sentiment was not Robert’s words as implied, but were plagiarised by both brothers, with no attribution to its real author, George Bernard Shaw, who coined the phrase in Back to Methuselah in 1918.
The Kennedys indeed leave a confused and questionable legacy to the American Dream which, courtesy of George W Bush and his thuggish crew, is slowly drifting into a nightmare.
In other matters, another world political leader has featured in the best British headline of the year, in The Times of London: ‘Berlusconi Ruined My Reputation, Says Prostitute‘. Aww, the poor dear.