Happy birthday (100 -- hard to believe it yet) -- President Kennedy!
In case you wondered whether I would use the occasion to make some cheap shots at the current President, what did you expect?
It has been 55 years since this famous (or infamous) rendition of Happy Birthday...
I doubt that many could see much in common between the Presidencies so far of Donald Trump and the first 130 or so days of JFK. By this date in 1961 many people who had voted for Richard Nixon weren't too badly disappointed with the President who had won. By this time in 2017, many who voted for President Trump recognize a huge mistake. President Kennedy and Donald Trump may have won similar numbers of electoral votes, but after that the differences overwhelm us.
Practically nobody was counting the days until America was going to be through with the President. But with Donald Trump I certainly do.
1332 days
31979 hours
1918771 minutes
115126264 seconds
until Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 9:00:00 am (Sunnyvale time)
It is 1332 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes, 4 seconds
...my 2500th post here!
In case you wondered whether I would use the occasion to make some cheap shots at the current President, what did you expect?
It has been 55 years since this famous (or infamous) rendition of Happy Birthday...
I doubt that many could see much in common between the Presidencies so far of Donald Trump and the first 130 or so days of JFK. By this date in 1961 many people who had voted for Richard Nixon weren't too badly disappointed with the President who had won. By this time in 2017, many who voted for President Trump recognize a huge mistake. President Kennedy and Donald Trump may have won similar numbers of electoral votes, but after that the differences overwhelm us.
Practically nobody was counting the days until America was going to be through with the President. But with Donald Trump I certainly do.
1332 days
31979 hours
1918771 minutes
115126264 seconds
until Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 9:00:00 am (Sunnyvale time)
It is 1332 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes, 4 seconds
...my 2500th post here!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.