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To: 5thGenTexan

“A little balance” ROTFL.
Balance is not participating in the total half century of mythologizing the left’s fake hero, JFK.

Reagan was trying to fix Kennedy’s immigration war on America, not duplicate it.

Kennedy wasn’t addressing any immigration issue, he was trying to deliver the fatal blow to America that he succeeded in doing, without it the left could never have come to own America.

“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”


16 posted on 11/23/2013 3:56:31 AM PST by ansel12 ( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
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To: ansel12; Gaffer
You two are right. Since I don't agree with everything JFK did, I must despise all that he did.

His tax cuts were crap. Startng NASA and initiating the mission to the moon was a waste. Staving off the spread of Communism in his time useless.

18 posted on 11/23/2013 4:06:20 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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