Posted on 10/06/2004 6:29:13 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Neither was his presidency.
So many votes, so little time, except for windsurfing and skiing.
He was a ‘ghost senator’; he had all the form, but none of the substance.”
He would make the same type of president
He had his high points and his low points. The tax cut and the Cuban Missile Crisis were his high points. Bay of Pigs and Vietnam were low.
Calvin Cooledge did 10 times more. Was a far greater President, but he wasn't wacked, so he can't reach sainthood like Kennedy; the most overrated President in history!
Don't know if Coolidge did more, but I agree with your assessment of Kennedy. Of course, history may judge him differently from the media. I was only 5 when he was killed, so I don't have too much recollection of his Presidency, except what I read in the liberal media. On the other hand, I remember when I was in highschool, I took a course on American history, and my teacher told us about how he'd worked for the Kennedy campaign. He admitted, though, that Kennedy was not wildly popular while he was President. It was only after he was assassinated that he became godlike.
John Kerry says he can do a better job than President Bush.
Oh really?
What is Kerry’s record during his 20 years in the Senate?
• Kerry voted against most of the major weapons systems that our troops use today.
• Kerry voted against the $87 billion for support of the troops, after he voted for it.
• Kerry led the fight against President Bush's Department Of Homeland Security, voting against it six times and delaying it for 112 days.
• Kerry missed more than 75% of the meetings of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
• Kerry proposed slashing the intelligence budget by $7.5 billion after the first attack on the World Trade Center.
• Kerry has voted at least 350 times for higher taxes.
• Kerry has been able to persuade congress to pass only eight insignificant laws that bear his name, and most of those were strictly ceremonial.
• Kerry has proposed that use of force by the US must meet a “global test.”
• Kerry voted against the first Gulf War, after Saddam invaded Kuwait. By Kerry’s standards, Saddam would still be in power, and in Kuwait.
• Kerry says he has a plan. Custer had a plan, too.
Kerry can do a better job than President Bush? Oh really?
I don't recall how long Kennedy was in the Senate, but I'm reasonably sure it was nowhere near 20 years!
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
GHOSTBUSTERS!
B/C '04
Kerry = Slacker and Undrachiever.
Senator Slacker!
The impression I got from Cheney's dissection (vivisection?) of Kerry and Edwards' Senate records was that these boys of unearned privilege think attendance is optional.
Despite the meager responsibilities they have in the Senate, a group that doesn't meet very often to begin with, they chose to blow off major votes, important committee meeting (membership on which we can only assume they fought to get), and simply attending to the business for which they are paid.
I know Kerry has blown off the entire past year, because my local paper reports him as "NOT VOTING" week after week when the Senate is in session.
Even as one in a hundred Senators, it is his duty to be there and do his job. The President was ridiculed for taking vacations in his first year that pale beside Kerry's record of nonattendance in the Senate.
Against his own benefit, the President was out comforting hurricane victims and assessing damage last week on the day of the debate.
What did Kerry do? He got a "man"icure. Nobody knows where Edwards was. Or cared.
I think we can see who is taking the job seriously.
Seven years - 1953-60.
OK, y'all, we all know that JOHN missed 75% of the senate intellegence meetings, but what has his attendance been for normal senate operations???? How many days attended per days the senate met??
And of course, we also need to know little johns' record for his four years also.
Kerry has NEVER done any heavy lifting...never run a small company....never even ran a Committee. PATHETIC.
You express my sentiments precisely.
Ping
The Ghost Senator: Kerry’s 20 phantom years in the upper chamberZERO !! 00
I was 2 1/2 when Kennedy was killed. Kennedy was looked at on the same level as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by the press and public school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s.
I didn't know any better until I did a report on Kennedy's political life in my junior year in high school. I had my doubts on his greatness then. In my young adult life, I played a round of golf with a retired FBI agent who was assigned to the White House during the Kennedy administration. That's when I learned what can happen to a public image when it has been burnished by a fawning press.A lot of his stories seemed uncannily similar to what we've read and heard of the Clinton White House.
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