Posted on 05/29/2017 7:44:00 AM PDT by EveningStar
John F. Kennedy would be 100 years old on Monday, were he still alive. The 35th president of the United States was killed in 1963, midway through his term in office, but he is revered today as one of the most towering figures in modern American politics.
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Faint praise, but I agree he was better than those that represent Democrats today.
And few can argue that his assassination was a turning point in our nation’s history.
” This guy’s shining moment was getting killed. “
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Yep,I call it The Died Young Syndrome.
Instant fame and on-going praise.
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Death is a good career move.
The best one word description of JFK would be ‘whoremonger’.
Wait, I thought his shining moment was almost crew killed with an inept command in the Pacific. Yup, JFK was an inspiration, on obvious one as far as oval office behaviour for Clinton.
“American culture was forever transformed by Vietnam and the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, not to mention the misnamed “great society” socialist programs that can not even be modified much less eliminated.”
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Let’s not confuse JFK, the womanizer fake hero (who literally employed real authors to write his version of “history”) with that vile evil murderer, LBJ. Johnson brought his own brand of violence out of Texas and imposed it on America in the form of Viet Nam after he participated in the murder that gave him the Presidency.
Worst American in history
The whole damn clan
Yep, that crook LBJ stole precinct 13 in Texas. And Daley delivered Cook county with the usual walking dead votes.
Nixon could/should have demanded a monitored recount, but he was no algore: beloved Love Story star and canny inventor of the interweb.
A reputation most definitely NOT deserved.
Kennedy was simply not anywhere near as popular as is made out today. I am only speaking about how his prospects appeared as of November 21, 1963. By the next evening he was transformed into an icon
PS Radio listeners of the first debate narrowly awarded Nixon a victory, while the larger television audience believed Kennedy won by a wide margin. When the votes were tallied in November, Kennedy earned 49.7% of the popular vote to Nixon’s 49.5%. Kennedy polled only about 100,000 more votes than Nixon out of over 68 million votes cast. The electoral college awarded the election to Kennedy by a 303-219 margin, despite Nixon winning more states than Kennedy.
After the election was stolen and the dust settled, Kennedy told his coterie of ghost author sycophants (of the books he `wrote’) that his old man Joe told him to watch his spending: that “he didn’t want to buy a landslide”.
ha ha ha ha ha. Lame humor from the reluctant, desultory & feckless candidate/usurper president and second son vehicle of gangster Joe’s unbridled ambition.
But as a President he wasn't *nearly* as bad as any of the Rats who succeeded him.None of those successors would have *ever* uttered anything like:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support *any* friend, oppose *any* foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."(He did,in fact,stress the word "any" when delivering this promise)
Or:
"Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen..let *them* come to Berlin".
Or:
"A rising tide lifts all boats"
To me JFK's certainly not the best President of my lifetime but he's far...*very* far...from being the worst.
....ha,ha. That was the precinct LBJ stole in 1948 to become senator. Had he lost, his career would have ended at that point; but, he had all the Brown & Root money there was and could afford to pay off any and all. Plus, he had help from a shady Supreme Court Justice, Hugo Black and an even shadier attorney and future Supreme Court Justice, who resigned in disgrace, Abe Fortas.
Imagine, over two hundred persons voted in alphabetical order, writing their names in the same handwriting, and with the same pen. It's a miracle I tell ya!
Most of what LBJ stole in 1960 came from the same south Texas area, but "13" was infamous in the 1948 senate election.
The Kennedys did not like Jackie at all. In many ways they were brutal towards her; not physically, but emotionally. By the time she realized she had married into a reprobate family, it was too late. There is no doubt in my mind that if JFK had not been killed, Jackie would eventually have divorced him.
“From Julius Caesar, to Charles I, to Lincoln, to Che, nothing enhances a reputation like “martyrdom”.”
So very, very true.
is it really a happy day for JFK?
Unless he made it to heaven all his days since his death probably have not been happy.
If he did make it to heaven he’s not thinking of earthly things like counting or celebrating birthdays of the dead.
When they count up the popular vote, they assign all the Democratic votes in Alabama to Kennedy, although the electoral vote was split between JFK and Harry Byrd--so who knows how many voters really were voting for Kennedy in Alabama.
Am I the only one who doesn’t remember where I was when he was killed?
As far the major challenges he faced--Bay of Pigs, Berlin, Cuban missile crisis, civil rights, Indochina--a case can be made that Nixon would have handled each of them more skillfully than Kennedy. JFK was sympathetic to integration of Ole Miss, but badly handled the situation when James Meredith enrolled (which ended with two people killed on campus).
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