Sarah Palin also hunts American icons. Now Palin is after JFK. Why is she targetting all the American icons? Let’s see: Reagan, Daddy and Mrs. Bush, W. Bush, and now none other than JFK. What has he done?
Back in the summer we ran a post celebrating the 50th anniversary of JFK’s speech to the ministers of Houston on the importance of the wall of separation between church and state. That speech was considered to be one of Kennedy’s most important. To this day, he is the only Roman Catholic to be elected President of the United States.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has addressed Palin’s erroneous thinking in an opinion piece in the Washington Post Saturday:
In her new book, “America by Heart,” Palin objects to my uncle’s famous 1960 speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, in which he challenged the ministers – and the country – to judge him, a Catholic presidential candidate, by his views rather than his faith. “Contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president,” Kennedy said. “I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic.”
