Comments on: American Gods http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: jakester http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5031 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:54:22 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5031 It was a completely different era. Even political opposition was different. The media was totally different. They shielded these guys.
JFK was looked up to by all, a combat veteran who stood up for America
right or wrong. I wouldn’ say htey portraye dhim as a god, he was a hero, for real, no fake purple hearts, or flyinginto an a carrier with a flight jacket on, a real hero. Just like Kevin said, if Obama goes to pee on AF1 we will read about it, or something like that.

Back then I think we all felt we knew our enemy, communisim. Isn’t it crazy how some of us have CHANGED? I wonder what he’d think of Obama, Pelosi, Reid… then again he’d probably be drinking/partying buddies
with Clinton and Spitzer, eh?

]]> By: Roger Green http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5030 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:23:57 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5030 Having read a lot of conversation re JFK the last few days, I’ve concluded that he was considered great based on the prism of “might have been.” I also note that if you’re around 60, like many MSM folks, he’s the first President you clearly remember, and surely you know where you were when he died. Maybe not a deification as much as a melancholia.

]]> By: Jen http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5029 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:20:40 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5029 I love this post. Thanks, Kevin.

]]> By: Tony Barbaro http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5028 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:15:22 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5028 If we admire someone, we make them a “god”, if we don’t, we love to point out their faults…in reality, most people live in the grey area, with highs and lows. Hopefully our highs out number our lows.

]]> By: jakester http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5027 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:11:22 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5027 “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” A great quote, wonder what he’d think of the new generation mantra of today…demand what you can from you country, screw evereyone else.

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5026 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:12:46 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5026 Good call. Fixed.

]]> By: D2 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/01/20/american-gods/#comment-5025 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:10:44 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=3590#comment-5025 On this date 38 years ago, John Kennedy had been ripening at Arlington National cemetary for over 9 years. Outside of that, I have to agreee with you on the whitewashing of flaws and imperfections from those we choose to elevate onto pedestals.

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