Posted on 04/15/2021 10:01:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Washington -- In predicting what we can expect to be the achievements of President Joe Biden, let us consider what his modern Democratic predecessors have achieved. There is a pattern in the president's predecessors' achievements that is revelatory. Briefly consider what they did.
President John F. Kennedy entered the White House as a war hero, and he pursued the Cold War with courage and growing astuteness. He had plans for the domestic front but was not given the time to implement them. Suffice to say, he was a successful Cold Warrior.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson was no war hero, but he entered the White House with a long record of legislative achievements, and while in the White House, he fashioned a staggering record of domestic accomplishment -- a record that cost the country billions and achieved little, but getting it through Congress took enormous energy and cunning. In fact, it cost him his life in the end, but the Great Society stands as a monument to him, a monument to his folly, but a monument nonetheless. As for the war in Vietnam, LBJ showed some grit, and our military whipped the communists again and again. The fault of the war's outcome resides with the Democrats on Capitol Hill. They lost the war.
The next Democrat to enter the White House ... Well, what can I say? I called him the Wonder Boy, Jimmy Carter. He left no Great Society nor a New Frontier, but after dithering around for three years, he did begin to build up the military, and I am told he left the White House with a modest reduction in the heating bill. After him came Bill Clinton, who initially talked of an infrastructure plan and of a nationalized health care policy but actually achieved very little until Newt Gingrich and his Republican colleagues gained their majority. Then Bill and Newt brought us a bipartisan government that was pretty much a success, except for Bill's impeachment.
After Bill came Barack Obama, who was the first gentleman of color to become president, which should have been an achievement in itself, but it only opened the door for the "1619 Project," endless talk of systemic racism and the largest outpouring of racial hatred that has been seen in this country arguably ever. The schools, the streets -- no place is free of it, and still Obama remains silent.
I think we can all agree that ever since the Carter presidency, no Democratic president has achieved much of anything, though all have promised greater and greater miracles. Clinton did bring us bipartisan government when bipartisanship was brought down on him. Obama brought us a presidency that should have ended talk of America's being a racist society, but it did not.
And now we have Joe Biden in the White House. He has introduced chaos to our southern border, unimaginable profligacy in our spending, which has awakened inflation, and a call for political unity, which I guess means he is calling on Republicans to agree to collude in the bankruptcy of the Republic. Some Republicans show signs of going along with Joe, at least when it comes to spending.
After Bill came Barack Obama, who was the first gentleman of color to become president, which should have been an achievement in itself, but it only opened the door for the "1619 Project," endless talk of systemic racism and the largest outpouring of racial hatred that has been seen in this country arguably ever. The schools, the streets -- no place is free of it, and still Obama remains silent.
I think we can all agree that ever since the Carter presidency, no Democratic president has achieved much of anything, though all have promised greater and greater miracles. Clinton did bring us bipartisan government when bipartisanship was brought down on him. Obama brought us a presidency that should have ended talk of America's being a racist society, but it did not.
And now we have Joe Biden in the White House. He has introduced chaos to our southern border, unimaginable profligacy in our spending, which has awakened inflation, and a call for political unity, which I guess means he is calling on Republicans to agree to collude in the bankruptcy of the Republic. Some Republicans show signs of going along with Joe, at least when it comes to spending.
JFK had one of the worst civil rights records of any US president.
There sure seem to be a lot of JFK lovers on FR. I know the Q people are always trying to put him on a pedestal - saying Trump picked up where JFK left off... I don’t think so.
Or maybe because he was assassinated it is considered uncool to call him what he was - another Democrat who believes more government is the solution to everything.
That is the exact opposite of what the Founders believed.
The Kennedy brother that lived should demonstrate what the JFK legacy would have been, had he not sadly been assassinated.
IMHO anyone who votes for ANY democrat is aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise.
Trump picked up where the Founders left off!!
Is America lost forever? Is it possible to claw our way back from permanent RAT rule?
Tyrell has no idea about the Vietnam War and it’s implications.
Reading Col. Fletcher Prouty’s book on Vietnam , The CIA, and JFK.
Our involvement in Vietnam goes back to 1945 and the whole thing was a disgusting mess.
BS! Read the history.
BS, YOU read it!
The Democrats do not want to fix anything. To fix something is to make government irrelevant, and the main purpose of the Democrat party is the perpetual progression of power.
JFK was one of the most morally depraved of any US President.
Even semi-honest liberals have admitted that JFK was a weak man and not the myth presented. Seymour Hersh’s book, THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT tells many of the truths about him. Our side’s Victor Lasky had a book out during Kennedy’s presidency which told just a fraction of what was later to become known but in the aftermath of the assassination, his book was pulled from bookstores due to the tidal wave of JFK martyr worship.
I am one who was reassessed JFK in the last few months through some interesting books I have read on the era, especially in the area of Foreign Policy.
Kennedy was taken out by the Deep State as it existed at the time.
I suggest you read Col. Fletcher Prouty’s two books on the subject and you might come to different conclusion on things and JFK in particular.
By the way if JFK was running I would vote for him over some of the choices we have had.
I enjoy reading Tyrell. He looks as serious as he looks constipated.
I’m looking forward to Trump picking up from where Grant left off.
So voting for FDR during the war was a bad idea. Having read some excellent books on FDR as CIC during the war and I don’t think we could have had any better person directing the war effort along with his Chief of Staff Admiral Leahy.
I have and I read it in the times it was in, not interpreted by today’s revisionism.
By the way his record was worse than Woodrow Wilson’s??????
If it’s his rhetoric we are judging - I agree that JFK was orders of magnitude better than his fellow Democrats.
Both put into office with a stolen election. Both illegitimate.
I have long maintained it was the stolen election of JFK that began the downfall of America. Ironically JFKs presidency produced the landing on the moon which was the pinnacle of American greatness and the beginning of the end of America all at the same time.
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