<<Don't know where you lived but i heard Fitzgerald all the time when people referred to Kennedy.>>
You do know where I lived, but maybe you forgot. I lived in Toronto, but we had regular weekly subscriptions to TIME and LIFE magazines and a monthly to Esquire Magazine. And read the New York Times every Sunday. And watched the news on NBC or CBS every night. I don't know where YOU lived, but believe me, although we all knew what the F stood for, it was not all that often that we saw it in print. Nowhere NEAR the number of times the hatchet men of the War Party use Obamas middle name.
<<Maybe it was to remind folks of his Irish heritage.>>
Yeah, that must be it. "Kennedy" always sounded kinda Jewish to me.
<<maybe it was to remind folks that he was descended from the Fitzgeralds of Boston fame.>>
Yeah, Honey Fitz, the last hurrah, crooked Democratic big-city politics and all that. Just to remind the voters in the rest of the country just kind of political swamp he came from, despite the Harvard veneer. Smart move.
<<Maybe it was to secure the Catholic vote. Maybe it was to shame any who wouldn't vote for a man based on his religion.>>
Right. John Kennedy from Boston. Son of Joe Kennedy, the anti-British bootlegger and whiskey baron of Boston, the father of nine children. An Irish Catholic? Him? Who woulda thunk?
<<Bobby's middle name was Francis. Heard that a lot too.>>
LOL. Oh yeah. All the time. Sure, BT.
<<Barack's middle name is Hussein. Big deal. Doubt that is a secret to anyone.>>
Fitzgerald wasn't a secret either, neither was Delano, neither was Milhous, but nobody harped on any of them like those Republicans are harping on Obama. And there are three very obvious reasons for it. Racism, racism, and racism.