What's up with this fixation?


America has to get over this fixation with the Kennedy family. We saw JFK, then RFK and now JFK Jr.? Give it a break people.

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im not american so i guess so don't count...haha

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First of all I just want to say GREAT movie!! Very well done in capturing who John really was.... Anyone who loved him feels even more deeply for him. WE finally see the ongoing struggle within himself to carve his own path while gaining acceptance, its about time people learn about him as a PERSON not a personality... face on a magazine cover or the keeper of a leagacy...he was so much more than a tabloid favorite... he had a wonderful heart the world was a better place with him having been here but there is a void that will never be filled because of that.

AS for Jackie and whats so great about her. I dont know how to answer that. Theres so many things. It doesnt sound like you know that much about her. How old are you?


Nicole

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The Kennedy Family is Americas Royalty.The Define everything about America from its good to its Bad to its Triumph to a tradgedy.
Immigrant Family to Near Royalty.

Its that simple.

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Royalty?...you can't possibly be serious...either that or you are from such a terminally lower class background that you wouldn't know true royalty if they posted a message for you on here...the Kennedys are the sleaziest family in the history of American politics....JFK Jr is simply one of Nazi Joe's grandsons and nothing more..he accoumplished nothing in his life other than to indulge himself in the wealthy lifestyle that was made possible by his grandfather's bootleg whiskey money....and he did himself in just as some of his other cousins have done....the Kennedy family hubris and self generated sense of entitlement has been legend for over half a century....your puling adoration of them is pitiable beyond words

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He may not have accomplished much in his own right but the ambitions of his grandfather,great grandfather,father and brother cemented the Kennedy's America's royalty. If you cannot see that you simply have blind hatred for the Kennedy family. You could not possibly be naive enough to think that the term "royalty" denotes nobility. Are you foolish enough not to understand that the majority of families in Europe who rose to the ranks to become the first kings did not do so by utilizing the same ambitious traits that Joe Kennedy did?
Sure Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger,he may have had criminal ties but he wanted the best for himself and his children and was hell bent on making sure the Irish would not always been seen in the light which they were. I think his sons did quite well for themselves politically & had very good intentions. If you want to discuss royalty look no further than Queen Isabella who commission Columbus to rape
the cultures of the West Indians and who single handedly allowed for the largest genocide in the history of the world on the island of Hispaniola and surrounding islands. Is that royal?
Royal is nothing more than a title. One cannot dispute that Isabella was royalty because by definition she was. I was equating the Kennedy family to America's royalty in that same regard. Do I think the grandchildren of Joe Kennedy squandered many opportunities to change the world? Of course I do.
Do I think JFK Jr. had more in common with his mother than father?
Absolutely. He was not the brightest bulb out there and his cousins for the most part have been spoiled beyond repair. When I think of the "Kennedys" I think of the time period between 1920-1970.
What Joe accomplished regardless cemented his family name in history and John & Jackie presented an image of American leadership and grace that can only be equated to royalty.
We are all human,think back to your greatest sin and then throw a stone. Are you not a good person based on a few actions?

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Please wake up and smell the hypocrisy! Bootleg - whiskey - money and other
dishonest, distasteful, horrifying, inhumane, clandestine methods, is exactly
how "white amerikkka" has amassed it's stolen wealth; Joe Kennedy and his
progeny fall very comfortably into this class!

And if AmeriKKKa had a royal family, I can't think of a better family
than the Kennedy's to fill that bill!

I don't really think they are any different than any
other American family who is beset with death, tragedy, promiscuousness,
infidelity, celebrity, sexual deviation, scandal, et al!

They are just the most visible, famous and celebrated!!

On the other hand, I enjoyed this movie because it does give us a chance
to get to know him better as a person as opposed to a personality!

He seems to have been a very nice guy that wanted to be his own man.

How could he accomplish that in the wake of his father's legacy and reputation!

"OOO...I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"

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"I don't really think they are any different than any
other American family who is beset with death, tragedy, promiscuousness,
infidelity, celebrity, sexual deviation, scandal, et al!"

And those things haven't been rampant in real royal families for thousands of years?

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The Kennedy family helped to shape modern America. They defined it. This country has no royalty, but for all means and purposes the Kennedys are it. Jackie was the closest thing that ever came to a queen and JFK Jr. really was looked upon as a prince.

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