Camelot, JFK

Camelot is everywhere and nowhere. It is possibility of mankind's goodness and idealism transplanted on American soil as the American Dream and embodied in JFK and his leadership. Obama is a resurrection of that perennial dream, the Camelot dream
and brings the world of all possibility to our doorstep.
I am not boundlessly optimistic . Consider the Evian Conference and the failure of the St Louis to dock on,yes, American shores. Consider the tragedy of the Holocaust in its entirety. History and our blighted nature is not erased in a fell swoop. Excessive idealism of this kind is dangerous and the most negative of thinking I can conceive of.