Thursday Open Thread [5.24.12]

Here are some oldie but goodie negative cartoons about JFK. I love this kind of historical stuff, because it serves to remind us that, despite the popular notion that in the good old days Democrats and Republicans got along and did not hate each other, politics has always been nasty. In the election of 1884, charges of illegitimate children and affairs dogged Grover Cleveland. “Ma Ma Where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House Ha Ha Ha.”

So whenever a media bloviator talks about polarization, know that they are pretty much full of it and just have nothing else to write about.