At the beginning of a conference call just now, McCain adviser Randy Scheunenmann , called Sen. Joe Biden's suggestion that an international crisis would test Obama's mettle a "Kinsleyian gaffe" and implied that Obama would be like John F. Kennedy, who hurried into an ultimately ill-advised early summit with Krushchev in 1961. (Kennedy later called it "the roughest thing" of his life.)
Whether the historical comparison holds is one thing.
But comparing Obama to Kennedy?
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