Can’t fly. Can’t ski. Can’t Drive. Can’t Canoe.
Is there nothing a Kennedy can’t do.
If the story holds true, there would have been no “Camelot” had Joe Sr. not bought extra votes from Chicago to send his kid to the White House.
The thing about JFK I don’t get is the fact that this miserable failure gets so much love from the right. It’s obviously a bad thing for someone to get assassinated. But politically-speaking, the principal negative consequences weren’t what he did not get to do - it’s what the Democrats used his assassination to accomplish - the massive expansion of the welfare state. Note that it was JFK who first instituted racial quotas, by executive order.
Compared to today’s democrats??-he was a right wing hawk.
Slashed the Absurd 95 percent top rate.
He was a liberal.
But today these aren’t liberals...they are INSANE.
A democrat said clinton was “defining deviancy down”.
With clinton came a complete crash in any kind of ethics or morality.
Thank perot. Worthless POS
bush was a one world government guy and I really dislike that whole family, but anything was better than clinton.
the rest of the kennedys..i dont get.
” What explains the enduring live affair with Kennedy?!”
He was a democrat, so the press loved him and he ran against Nixon whom the press despised. But the election was close, close enough that it might well have been stolen.
And then he got assassinated. For four days all that was on TV and radio were retrospectives of what we had all lost. By the time he was in the ground he was a secular saint. Franklin was removed from the half dollar to be replaced by JFK. Idyllwild Airport in NYC was renamed JFK, Cape Canaveral in FL was renamed Cape Kennedy, dozens of schools were renamed in his honor. Even his official Presidential portrait portrays him almost in mourning, looking down.
Time has passed and those who remember those times are passing as well and people now look back and wonder what all the fuss over him was about. As I said earlier, you kinda had to have been there.
The article talks about how McKinley never got the treatment JFK got, but neglects that his VP, Teddy Roosevelt kind of did.
Moreover, for many Democrats, Jack Kennedy was their first political love. His assassination meant that his popularity remained unsullied and retained a force amplified by later disappointments and compromises. Shrewdly, the family, the family foundation, the Democratic Party, and the news media have collaborated over decades to keep the legend of Jack Kennedy fresh.
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“A great read..... What explains the enduring live affair with Kennedy?!”
It really is still a live affair by the media. JFK was and is still a media lie. They can’t bring themselves to tell the truth.
It got showed again and again and again. It was pounded into you that you must remember where you were "when you heard".
It was drilled into school children that the Nazi sympathizer Boozer clan was American Royalty.
Major propaganda was employed about how wonderful and beloved the guy who had to cheat his way into office and was not going to be reelected was. If you remembered things differently about President Good Hair then you were made to feel alone. There was no internet to connect with like minded people, no talk radio to point out that the guy we were suppose to be morning left thousands of our allies to die, gave the communists a base right off our shore, nearly caused a Nuclear war, gave up a vital defense in Europe and was dragging us into a land war in Asia.
No, the anti-American press controlled the narrative and so the country was mostly brainwashed.
And it persists to this day.
Unless I’m mistaken, he did face down the Soviets in the “Cuban Missile Crisis”. That was big deal at the time. Soviet intermediate nuclear missiles on our doorstep was not acceptable. But then, I haven’t read that much about it, but the above is my understanding. And yes, I was also one of the kids practicing drills under my desk...as if it would have done any good since I lived close to Los Angeles.
The Sov's felt perfectly comfortable throwing crises at Kennedy, like erecting the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. They also made trouble in S.E. Asia.
Cubar was a real problem for "Jack." One of his big issues was the so-called "missile gap" claiming the Russians had more missiles than we did. It was a lie. But, Khrushchev ran most of his missile force into Cubar because Kennedy was caught in his lie. He could have seized most of their missiles that close to the US, but the country would not allow that, falsely believing there was still a first strike capability back in the USSR. So, Kennedy agreed to pull our missiles out of Turkey and concealed that from the country. Khrushchev rolled him again.
Oh, and then Kennedy started the nuclear arms race, announcing the 1,000 missile Minuteman program to close the nonexistent "gap." How many times have you heard from the press or academia that Kennedy kicked off the arms race?
How to explain Camelot? He was telegenic. He owned the media. He wasn't very smart but was witty and could tell a good joke. His long suffering wife was beautiful and gracious. It was the Soaring Sixties - the economy was booming. And, please don't take this wrong, Kennedy's death was timely for his legacy. In the second half, the Sixties went to hell in a handbasket. Vietnam, violence in the South, race riots in the North, inflation kicking up. Kennedy's buddies in the press and academia shielded him and threw the blame on Johnson and Nixon. How was Nixon responsible for stuff that started before he was President? Well, like Dubya and Trump, it was all his fault.
Oh, and you will never, ever hear this, but their were rumors Kennedy was thinking about postponing the Civil Rights bill because he was going into an election in 1964. That was part of the agenda for his trip to Texas - gauge Southern support.
Whoa...what minute. Kennedy was shot? When did this happen ?
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