Of course he was not the President who spoke with the astronauts on the moon. He wouldn't have been the President then if he lived out his two terms.
Do you deny his vision, based on national pride and to counter the USSR's Sputnik achievement, was the driving force in our space race? Did Obama get bin Laden or was it the completion of a decade long mission put into place by Bush?
Even though I would vote against him, there are a few policy issues and national sentiment ideals I can agree with JFK on. I cannot say the same for Obama, Reid or Pelosi.
The politics of Viet Nam ranged from genuine ideals that people should be free all the way to the idea that America wanted to show the Chinese and Russians that it would fight a prolonged, unwinnable war. The matter is moot now, except for the legacy that the United States now is entirely comfortable fighting wars it hasn’t the will to win.
I do not deny he was not as bad as Democrat Presidents that followed him. Likewise, I am certainly not persuaded of his greatness based on less than three years as president.
The media has long been disposed to hide the peccadillos of Democrat Presidents from Roosevelt to Obama. In the case of Kennedy, they seek to make him King. My point is that he was nothing extraordinary at all and I, for one, will not perpetuate the myth.