Quote Originally Posted by BradH
Now it's 2006 and making a causal relationship between today's problems and Kennedy's death makes as much sense as a primitive man blaming a thunderstorm on some berries he ate. Or as much sense as Hank Williams Jr. pining for the days when women didn't use microwaves.
Pop culture has long earmarked Kennedy's assasination as a turning point in our society, or as they put it "the end of our (country's) innocense". I buy that. Its not that they're saying that Kennedy's death allowed all these bad things to happen, because there was plenty of crap happening in our country at the time, and Kennedy himself was involved in his share of skullduggery. Most of us had a false sense of security and righteousness up to the time that Kennedy was killed before our very eyes. It was an awakening of sorts for us. We were a very jaded society after that.

When he uses the Kennedy assaination in his song, I'm sure it was used as a metaphor. Not that his song is all that original, as many writers, of both song and print, have used the Kennedy assasination turning point thing ad nauseum, to the point of cliche. But its still a valid point.

I understand where you are coming from, though I think most of the time these politically charged rants are mean spirited. It is after all, a music board. I'd rather read someone's biased opinion about why he likes a song (right or wrong), than to stare at the same 25 posts for a week.