Posted on 04/14/2018 8:13:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Other than his tax cut and the Space Program what did he do? The Ruskies fired the Nukes in Cuba we find out after they opened their books and they didn’t launch ( great equipment aye ) , they just sat their, and we knew he shived the freedom fighters, so how good of a POTUS was he? IMHO Truman and Ike were way better, heck Nixon was better....
When any, that’s in any, Republican “scandal” is pushed by the low-Q media, three words are sufficient: Kennedys, Clintons, and Obamas.
There is nothing that the right has done to come even close to the sleaze, sexual depravity, hiding of documents, corruption, payola, etc, etc, than that threesome couple of completely corrupt and inept POSs.
JFK gets well deserved praise for handling the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the crisis would never have happened with some minimal support and follow through at the Bay of Pigs.
Ted also lied and they paid Mary Jo’s parents to keep it as the Kennedy’s wanted it to be.
They also paid off John Jr’s wife’s family when she was killed on his plane.
That was the scuttle butt anyway.
The Kennedy family was to be protected.. and they had so much tragedy in the family. Mr Kennedy had his daughter’s brain lobotomized.. and didn’t even tell Mrs Kennedy he was having it done.
“Where are the planes?” kept crackling over U.S. Navy radios two days later. “Where is our ammo? Send planes or we can’t last!”
“The Ruskies fired the Nukes in Cuba we find out after they opened their books and they didn’t launch “
Where have you read that?
That's reason enough to think twice about how successful JFK was with regard to that crisis.
I remember that day and immediately realized the Kennedys had betrayed the Cuban Freedom Fighters.
If you will remember, then the USA had to pay Cuba a ransom in the form of tractors, to free those prisoners. I thought common tractors, but it was actually high dollar bulldozers. 500 is the number that comes to mind. 500 bulldozers.
Never trusted a Democrat since.
What a shining example for the Democrat Party.
Kennedy’s handling of the Bay of Pigs operation has always been baffling to me. The plan had begun during the Eisenhower administration, and JFK never really backed it. He changed the landing site from Trinidad, Cuba to the Bay of Pigs. This already put the landing force at a disadvantage because the first beach was more easily defended, closer to other forces aligned against Castro, and had an escape route into nearby mountains. Then he refused to follow through with promised air strikes. After it was all over he fired the three top men at the CIA as scapegoats.
If he didn’t believe in the plan, why didn’t he just cancel the damn thing?
Nixon would’ve flushed out Castro and Cuba would be a free country today had he been rightly President in ‘62.
Oh Gosh I wish I could remember, I was shocked when I heard it. It may have been G. Beck before he left the pop-tart stay too long in the toaster, and his team was doing did amazing research. FWIW, when I say or post something here on FR it is either an observation, a question or in this case a fact, I have a really good memory for the last one. Frankly no time to research it at the moment...
I rate Kennedy as the 2nd worst POTUS, with W.Wilson as the most worstest (it’s a pizza thing).
It does show the power of the popular mass media that JFK isn’t vilified as he should be. I suppose martyrdom will do that for you./
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Hey, he got us escalating in Vietnam... he deserves credit for that.
You can plop LBJ onto that steaming pile as well.
He did revamp the military to some extent.
The tax cuts, well, he wanted to do them, but since his time in office was cut short, for reasons far beyond my ken, Johnson was the one that pushed the tax cuts through.
Out of character for LBJ and most of those in Congress, from what I've read. Maybe LBJ did it in expectations of failure so as to blame JFK, and dampen the myth, and raise taxes even more?
Piece of Sh*t Kennedy caused massive suffering, misery and death because he was too big of a P*ssy to do what needed to be done, and he deliberately backstabbed the freedom fighters.
Again, had crooked Chicago and the treasonous news media not deliberately thrown the election to that rat bastard, Nixon would have carried through on the Eisenhower plan, and Cuba would not be suffering under communism, and there never would have been a "Cuban Missile Crises."
History books need to reflect what sort of utter scumbags are most Democrat presidents.
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