JFK's Grandson Skewers Ted Cruz: He 'Is No Jack Kennedy'

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10. Patrick Kennedy agrees.

He was on The Last Word tonight talking about his uncle John. The JFK clips included this excerpt from his acceptance speech for the Dem nomination in 1960:

But I tell you the New Frontier is here, whether we seek it or not. Beyond that frontier are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus. It would be easier to shrink back from that frontier, to look to the safe mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric--and those who prefer that course should not cast their votes for me, regardless of party.

Frankly, much of this speech reminds me of the current choice between, say, "status quo pragmatism" and more visionary leadership in the Dem campaign.