[popdonnelly]

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

[Vigilanteman]

You've got that right. Can you imagine any modern Democrat in a leadership role being a vocal anti-communist or pushing a real tax cut? Some of JFK's positive moves in these areas partially compensated for disasters like the Bay of Pigs.

And, thus, I give him credit for being a mediocre president, roughly on the same level as Harry S. Truman, who was probably the second best Democrat to occupy the Oval Office in the last century.

Some conservatives might rank him higher than JFK. But I'd have to say that the loss of China was a far more serious blunder than the Bay of Pigs.

So, yeah, JFK is the best Democrat to serve in the Oval Office in the last century. But its a pretty low bar.