Posted on 12/17/2014 3:08:43 PM PST by jazusamo
Former President Kennedy would approve of President Obama's decision to roll back trade and travel restrictions on Cuba, the White House argued Wednesday.
"I do think that even President Kennedy would acknowledge that after more than 50 years of a policy of isolation [which] didn't bring about the desired result … change was needed," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
President Obama announced earlier in the day that the administration would ease travel restrictions to the country, as well as restrictions on exports to Cuba. The government is also allowing U.S. financial and telecommunications firms to establish more of a foothold in Cuba. They are the most significant changes to U.S.-Cuba policy since 1962, when Kennedy extended a trade embargo in reaction to Fidel Castro's alignment with the Soviet Union. Kennedy extended those restrictions to include a travel ban in 1963, following the Cuban missile crisis.
Earnest said Kennedy was someone who "did believe in the value of openness and engagement and in the value of empowering local populations to take greater control over their economic and political situation."
"So, it does strike me that, while the president is changing a policy that President Kennedy originally put in place, that the philosophy that the president is pursuing and the values that the president is pursuing is entirely consistent with the kinds of values that President Kennedy championed throughout his life," Earnest said.
John F. Kerry is his secretary of state, of course he backs him!!
Yep, but neither JFnK nor 0bama would make a pimple on JFKs....
Another asinine strawman thrown out for popular consumption.
~and the media scarfs up the droppings.
Whoever heard of a talking house?
Name names.
I doubt it. What a bunch of liars.
That's what got him killed.
In a hand written private letter to republican Richard Nixon in 1960, this is what the democrat Ronald Reagan had to say about JFK in regards to his acceptance speech as the democrat nominee. Shortly after the Democratic Party held its Convention in Los Angeles in 1960 where it nominated Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy for President, Ronald Reagan sent the following letter to Vice President Richard Nixon offering his services in the upcoming presidential campaign.
After mocking the “platitudes and generalities” of the other democrat speeches, Reagan gets to the meat of who JFK was.
The hand written letter:
“”I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the “challenging new world” is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to “out liberal” him. In my opinion this would be fatal.
(snip
I am convinced that America is economically conservative and for that reason I think some one should force the Democrats to publish the “retail price” for this great new wave of “public service” they promise. I don’t pose as an infallible pundit but I have a strong feeling that the twenty million non voters in this country just might be conservatives who have cynically concluded the two parties offer no choice between them where fiscal stability is concerned. No Republican no matter how liberal is going to woo a Democratic vote but a Republican bucking the give away trend might re-create some voters who have been staying at home.
One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.
I apologize for taking so much of your time but I have such a yearning to hear some one come before us and talk specifics instead of generalities. I’m sure the American people do not want the govt. paid services at “any price” and if we collectively can afford “free this & that” they’d like to know it before they buy and not after it is entrenched behind another immovable govt. bureau.
You will be very much in my prayers in the days ahead.
Sincerely,
Ronnie Reagan
The real question is whether Kennedy would go after Michelle.
LMAO
JFK is probably rolling over in his grave.
He was NOTHING like these commies and socialists with a “D” after their names.
I’m having a difficult time understanding why exactly John Kennedy would approve of Sarah Palin’s shoe-shine boy.
LOL... I remember seeing that mag in my local market and laughed so hard thinking who would be stupid enough to believe it. Nowadays, I think I would take the word of the Weekly World News over anything I would see or read from the alphabet networks and the New York and Los Angeles Slimes.
I was no fan of JFK but he stood up to the Ruskies and Castro and communism.
Yes, Obama, and so would George Washington. And Abraham Lincoln, not to mention the Roosevelts, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
...This same old mantra of “We are all Americans” needs to stop.....They are Cubans !!! Communist Cubans if I recall correctly.
No , all of the countries South of the United States are not Americans and its an insult to continue to call them such.
LOL! He wasn’t hard up for women, I’d guess no. :-)
JFK was the last Democrat President, maybe 'til the end of time, who thought the United States was a venue worth support. JFK would send his new SEAL creation to erase the current White House denizen with Rat poison.
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