JFK would have been right at home in Thai money-politics
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Re: “Political hatred, arrogance can blind one to historical reality,” Letters, March 29.
Do you really want historical reality? JFK was the worst criminal who ever sat in the White House, bar none.
It is no secret, and it is not disputed, that he and his father purchased the 1960 presidential election – cash on the barrelhead. They should have gone to prison, and Thailand certainly doesn’t need that as an example of “democracy” to follow. Citizens here have had enough of “money politics”.
JFK put his name as author to a book entitled “Profiles in Courage”, but he was not brave enough to tell the public who actually wrote it. Anyone interested in those sordid details can read “Jackie Kennedy’s flawed memory” from the Washington Post of September 23, 2011. There is your “courageous” money-politician JFK – a felon and a phoney. Try to “spin” that historical reality.
Guy Baker
