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A Beautiful Mediocrity: JFK was a so-so president, a deeply flawed man.
National Review ^ | 11/20/2013 | The Editors

Posted on 11/20/2013 10:00:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/20/2013 10:00:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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He was a handsome and vivacious man

Maybe on TV. In person he looked like a fragile painted porcelain doll.

2 posted on 11/20/2013 10:03:58 AM PST by MUDDOG
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I thought the young Mitt Romney was better looking, but oh well... to each his own.


3 posted on 11/20/2013 10:04:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

he was the only PT boat skipper to get run over by an enemy ship.


4 posted on 11/20/2013 10:05:14 AM PST by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The JFK mythology is a high tribute to the national press and the democrat machine who deftly put lipstick on a pig and gave it near-deification in the public view.

JFK was crap, accomplished little other than what he believed would politically help him, stole the election and never wrote a single line of his famous books, was so weak and foolish that he almost took us into a nuclear war. In short, the perfect democrat.


5 posted on 11/20/2013 10:05:23 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SeekAndFind

This author will probably be stoned to death in public.

One thing you should NEVER do is speak the truth.


6 posted on 11/20/2013 10:06:12 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably. Can’t say because I’ve never seen Romney up close.


7 posted on 11/20/2013 10:07:00 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: SeekAndFind

There are similarities between JFK and Joseph Smith. They both loved the ladies. Their sudden death rescued them from discovery and ultimate shameful repudiation that they would have experienced had they lived on. Their followers were able to craft a narrative that lives on for generations.


8 posted on 11/20/2013 10:07:26 AM PST by lurk
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Bay of Pigs wiped out the armed Cuban opposition to Castro.

He abandoned the Eisenhower’s Tibetans to be wiped out to the last man, refusing to take the calls as they were surrounded and out of ammunition.

He got the South Vietnamese president killed (oh, did I do that?). Fired the team which had previously beaten the communists in the Philippines, and turned the counter-insurgency over to his Harvard pals.

The guy was a wrecking ball.


9 posted on 11/20/2013 10:08:04 AM PST by marron
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You don’t want to sound heartless, but, Kennedy has this image only because of his assassination. He was made into a mythical figure, and the myth of Camelot arose, only because of his tragic death.


10 posted on 11/20/2013 10:08:05 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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11 posted on 11/20/2013 10:08:25 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The assassination was the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic Party.


12 posted on 11/20/2013 10:09:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A despicable man from a disgusting family


13 posted on 11/20/2013 10:09:34 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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Yeah but you have to figure after he was knocked off the commies took over the ‘rat party then eventually the Republican party then the entire government where today we’re practically living in a commie country with a commie POTUS. That’s why I think Oswald wasn’t the only one involved.


14 posted on 11/20/2013 10:10:31 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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his vocal anti-Communism

Libs hate to be reminded that 'Tail-Gunner' Joe McCarthy was a frequent guest at Hyannis Port, as well as a Godfather to one of RFK's children.

15 posted on 11/20/2013 10:14:50 AM PST by Michael.SF. (I never thought anyone could make Jimmy Carter look good in comparison.)
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To: musicman

I cracked up the first time I saw that pic in an ad in Vintage Guitar Magazine!


16 posted on 11/20/2013 10:16:24 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: SeekAndFind
By almost any measure, John F. Kennedy was a middling president at best, and an occasionally disastrous one.

Exactly. His greatest accomplishment was to be assassinated. Americans were reluctant to speak ill of the dead. His chickens couldn't come home to roost. And most importantly, liberals were able to create their myth of Camelot.

For those who scoff, remember; liberals tried to do the same (and failed) for Ted Kennedy.

17 posted on 11/20/2013 10:19:10 AM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Okay, but he was far superior to anything the Democrats have come up with lately.


18 posted on 11/20/2013 10:20:04 AM PST by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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RE: There are similarities between JFK and Joseph Smith

I thought Joseph Smith was KNOWN for his polygamy even when he was alive... he actually PREACHED IT.

JFK on the other hand, tried to hide his pecadillos.


19 posted on 11/20/2013 10:20:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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As P.J. O’Rourke wrote (primarily referring to the Kennedys),

It’s Always Tempting To Impute
Unlikely Virtues To The Cute.


20 posted on 11/20/2013 10:23:09 AM PST by pogo101
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