Posted on 04/24/2015 6:32:09 AM PDT by luke1825
Fifty years ago it was President John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Today it is President Barack Obama and the Cuban Dismissal Crisis.
Back then Fidel Castro and his brother Raul secretly allowed the Soviet Union to install a series of nuclear-armed missiles in Communist Cuba, all aimed at the United States.
This led to a confrontation between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Kennedy, a confrontation that almost led to a nuclear war before Khrushchev wisely backed away and ordered the removal of the missiles.
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Krushchev wisely backed down? Kennedy paid for it by removing missiles from Italy and Turkey. And that’s the rest of the story.
Yep. Most don’t know about Kennedy’s back door deal to remove the Jupiter MRBMs from those two countries.
Kennedy is hailed as a godsend because he was assassinated and through some perverse notion that liberal media needed a royal lineage - Camelot.
In truth, he was a philandering womanizing, drug-addicted scumbag who passed women between him and his brother like popcorn.
Rubio lied to get elected, lied about what was in his Gang’s bill and cannot be trusted as he has already betrayed the citizens in favor of fraudulently documented foreigners and their employers.
He’s as much a fraud as Obama.
True enough. But ...
Compared to Lyndon Johnson he looks like another Ronald Reagan. LBJ did more harm to this country than even Obama.
Kennedy cut taxes. That was a big deal - probably the reason he was shot. Did LBJ place an order for his promotion to the Presidency. Hmmm ... We will probably never know.
I won’t argue about LBJ. He was a Texas politician and a scoundrel for sure. Yet, even while he did damage, it is not as long-lasting and so pervasive as the Kennedy myth, for certain. All the way from Jack, to Bobby, to Jackie, to all the other clan members. Not a damned one of them worth spit.
They as a collective are responsible for some of the most heinous impositions on this country, in spirit and in practice, frankly. They even inspire copycats like John effing Kerry. The lasting legacy is the myth of Camelot and the elitist fascination liberal media has with their ilk, and their impact will go on for a long time. Fie on that whole brood.
Exactly. In the big picture, the Soviets got our missiles removed from Turkey (never heard about missiles in Italy before). So actually, we lost.
exactly why do people think JFK was anything other than your typical “KENNEDY”.... cheated his way through “havad”, cheated on his wife, and left the bay of pigs patriots to die.... ths is a “great” man...??? not in my book.... plus let’s see the secret deal made with russia to remove turkey bases and never invade cuba....
JFK was every bit as bad as LBJ, much of what passed under LBJ was JFK’s dreams passed on his death, such as the 1965 Immigration Act which destroyed America, and of course LBJ being stuck with JFK’s Vietnam War.
Ronald Reagan called JFK dangerous and a Marxist.
The Myth of JFK as Supply Side Tax Cutter
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/01/26/the-myth-of-jfk-as-supply-side-tax-cutter
Reagan was right.
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