You are far too kind. Kennedy screwed the pooch big time with his incredibly cavalier full-scale entry into Vietnam, despite the precise warning given to him by Eisenhower and MacArthur. And in the end, our ally fell to the communists.
Remember a little deal called "The Bay of Pigs? " Or how about his handling of the Cuban missile crisis, which his Hollywood hooligans incredibly managed to spin into a win, but caused us to have to pull back from the borders of the Soviet Union.
We are still paying for some of the mistakes made by that lecherous, diseased bastard who thought one could run the US in two hours a day and spread STDs among movie stars for the rest of the time.
Heh. Yeah, I ranked Kennedy pretty far down the list, though Woody Wilson, LBJ, and Jimmy Carter managed to rank lower simply because they were able to do more damage. Had Kennedy stayed a full 8 years, he might have been worse than LBJ. The fact Kennedy was a scumbag in private while portraying himself as an all-american boy scout and family man in public life certainly lowers my opinion of him. Had to rank him below the RAT machine liberal (but decent family man in private life) Harry Truman for that reason.
It's amusing when conservatives fall over themselves to heap praise on JFK and slobber all over his "legacy". When you expose the truth about what slime he was, they whine about how we shouldn't say those things cuz we need to convince Democrats about how "today's Democrats" have "left them" and blah blah blah. Can't think of a single RAT who said "geez whiz, I WAS gonna vote for Obama, but now that Republicans praised my icon JFK, I feel so grateful that I'm gonna pull the level for McCain!"
Someone mentioned RATs do the same think with Eisenhower, and post all over the Internet about how he was sooooo much better than today's Republicans and what a wonderful leader and role model he was, frequently quoting Ike's "millitary-industrial complex" line as some brilliant piece of wisdom forewarning about the evil "neo-cons". Funny, since they despised Ike at the time he was President and said he was completely clueless about politics. They probably have as much success converting conservatives into the Dem camp with the "industrial-complex" quotes as our side does with the freepers worshiping JFK for cutting taxes and stealing Harding's speech with the "ask not what your country can do for you" lines.
You know what, you’re right. He did do enough to get on the list.