“..Rupert Cornwell: US right turn makes JFK’s liberalism a far off memory..”

“..Just the names of Bobby Kennedy and George McGovern get you thinking:-

- whatever happened to the old-fashioned American liberalism under whose banner they so proudly fought?

Not today’s diluted “liberalism” as practised by Obama -

- which is little more than a schoolyard taunt hurled by right-wing talk-show hosts -

- but the liberalism that set out to right the wrongs of American society -

- first and foremost the scourge of poverty..”

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Rupert Cornwell: US right turn makes JFK’s liberalism a far off memory – Opinion – NZ Herald News.

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