Why America Continues to Prefer JFK (Why he ranks first among past 9 Presidents)

National Review ^ | 12/09/2010 | Alvin Feizenberg

[DaxtonBrown]

Kennedy is popular because of a sustained PR campaign by the leftist media.

[Conservative Tsunami]

JFK represents the final victory of “Style over Substance.”

This true. Especially with the advent of TV which showcased his "boyish charm" - as compared to previous CiCs..

However, ya gotta tip your hat to his sound-bytes, which were memorable and delivered with a sense of sincere promise:

"Ich bin ein Berliner!"

"Ask not what your country can do for you.."

"We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other things, NOT because they are easy but because they are HARD.”

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Report: "A conservative friend of mine asked me why the public continues to rank John F. Kennedy first among Barack Obama’s nine predecessors in public opinion surveys, as they did again just this week..."

Response: Media hype and an electorate 50% of which have an IQ below 100.

[donna]

Can you believe that he appointed his own brother as Attorney General?

Imagine if President Bush had put Jeb in that slot, LOL.

[Conservative Tsunami]

I see a conniving wife and mother who knew where the cameras were, and knew how to make journalistic history. And maybe that is the job of the wife of a public figure, to embody the hearts and minds of the population. But I have always felt like the Kennedys were more manipulators than public servants, and that Jackie fit right in with them.

Ok, hit me with your best shot.......

Compared to the cheezy-bad acting of the current First Slob and her "Can't-Hide-Da-Hate" family, the Kennedys were Academy Award winners if and when they were acting.

[PLD]

Thanks for the information Lori..I have to go out right now, but will read this when i get back it is something new to me..To tell the truth I thought the same about Johnson he was a SOB and anyone that would tell the truth about him would say the same..So yes he could have been involved with the assassination of Kennedy..

[flowerplough]

He ranks first among past 9 Presidents because of his funeral, with the pretty wife and brave little son. Sentimentality, nothing more.

[Conservative Tsunami]

Can you believe that he appointed his own brother as Attorney General?

Imagine if President Bush had put Jeb in that slot, LOL.

That'd have driven the Dems WILD.

GW did assign Poppy an "Ambassadorship" however. Along with Bubba to campaign for Tsunami relief. That kinda drove conservatives crazy.

[TexasRepublic]

Here’s the legacy that I personally remember from the Kennedy years:

Hiding under school desks in futile bomb drill exercises. Good thing I didn’t comprehend the destructive power of Russian nukes back then.

[tflabo]

Rankings IMO since 1960—— Reagan, Bush Sr, JFK, Nixon, Bush Jr, Ford, Clinton, Carter, OBama

[dfwgator]

You left out LBJ.

[tflabo]

Ooops.... my very Bad.... edited below...

Rankings IMO since 1960—— Reagan, Bush Sr, JFK, Nixon, Bush Jr, Ford, Clinton, LBJ, Carter, OBama

[dfwgator]

LBJ did more damage to the country than even Carter.

[ansel12]

Anti-abortion (we can assume by being a ardent Roman Catholic) Bona fide war hero - personally brave and deeply patriotic

We don't know he was pro-life, Catholics are not particularly so, and I never understood how he is a war hero, I believe more along the lines that the Navy considered charges, aside from that what did he do, swim, how was he unique among the crew?

You are feeding the myth that the man that stole the election from Nixon which was probably the single most destructive act in American history was good for America.

We could have survived Roosevelt, but we did not survive the JFK/Johnson years, that 1965 immigration act that JFK wanted passed was the end.

[tflabo]

Yeh but LBJ left the scene whereas Carter is still doing damage to the nation as a former president. Bottom line is both LBJ and Carter were awful presidents no matter where they stack on the totem pole of opinions.

[kalee]

Anti-abortion (we can assume by being a ardent Roman Catholic)

Sorry to disagree, but “ardent Roman Catholics” do not cheat on their wives. As for abortion Judith Exner, who claimed to have been his mistress, said he asked her if Sam Giancana would help her arrange to have an illegal abortion when she told him she was carrying his baby.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/09/26/national/main63794.shtml

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_12_31/ai_58170292/pg_5/

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1996/12/11/1996-12-11_jfk_s_abortion_order__prez_u.html

[SC_Pete]

JFK was the last Democrat to have a clue about how the economy works. He was a patriot and bleieved in a strong national defense. also, he would have protected our borders. TPoliticaly, Kennedy would be a Republican today—to the right of Romney and Huckabee but to the left of Sarah Palin.

[what's up]

Basically, the authro is saying that Kennedy’s only actual achievement was a tax cut.

[Conservative Tsunami]

LBJ did more damage to the country than even Carter.

Damn straight.

His 'Great Society', aka the 'Great Dem Plantation' in 1965 launched a multi-generation social welfare system that's decimated families ever since - and black families in particular.

Then there was LBJ's (and Ted Kennedy's) Immigration Act of 1965 that changed America's demographics forever when it favored Third Worlders over Western Europeans.

No need to mention that this corrupt lunatic also managed to bury us in Vietnam.

[Conservative Tsunami]

Yeh but LBJ left the scene whereas Carter is still doing damage to the nation as a former president.

NO President left a legacy worse than LBJ (NOT including the Kenyan.)

On his watch institutionalized welfare emerged, Third World immigration ran wild, and under his command was the worst war plan (Vietnam) in American history.