JFK's grandson slams Pence's interpretation of 'Profiles in Courage'

[NNadir]

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JFK's grandson slams Pence's interpretation of 'Profiles in Courage'

Washington (CNN)President John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg said Saturday that Vice President Mike Pence's recent op-ed is a "total perversion of JFK's legacy and the meaning of courage."

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Thursday, Pence urged Senate Democrats to break ranks and oppose the articles of impeachment brought against President Donald Trump.

Pence cited Kennedy's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Profiles in Courage," which has a chapter dedicated to Republican Sen. Edmund Ross of Kansas. Pence praises Ross, who broke with his party and is generally considered to have cast the deciding vote to acquit President Andrew Johnson after Johnson became the first American president to be impeached in 1868.

Pence wrote in the op-ed, "The question naturally arises: Who, among the Senate Democrats, will stand up to the passions of their party this time? Who will stand up against 'legislative mob rule' and for the rule of law? Who will be the 2020 Profile in Courage?"

Jack Schlossberg
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.@VP Mike Pence’s recent piece in the @WSJ, “A Partisan Impeachment, a Profile in Courage,” is a total perversion of JFK's legacy and the meaning of courage. As Kennedy's grandson, and a member of the Profiles in Courage Award Committee, I took special interest. THREAD ?

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In a series of tweets, Schlossberg wrote that Pence "is right to celebrate Ross, a public servant who, foreseeing his own defeated (sic), nonetheless summoned the courage to vote his conscience, and put the national interest above his own. But let's not be confused."
Trump "was impeached because he did the exact opposite -- he put his own interests ahead of our country's national security and, in the process, broke federal law," he wrote..

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[virgogal]

1. Many of my generation think the book was ghostwritten,by Ted Sorensen.

[NNadir]

2. So do I.

I'm not a fan of JFK, considering him to be the worst Democratic President of the 20th century, but irrespective of who actually wrote the book, the point is the same.

Pence, the immoral broker for a liar, is lying about what courage is. Neither he nor the corrupt traitor he worships as a god has any idea of what courage has been, is, or ever will be. A coward describing courage is rather like a racist complaining about racism.