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To: uncbob
Let's see kennedy can be summed up in four events, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missle crises, Bang your dead.

Now what was so great about that, other than the drugged out idiot didn't get us all killed.

20 posted on 04/08/2002 8:57:55 AM PDT by dts32041
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To: dts32041
" Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missle crises, Bang your dead."

Okay. One at a time, summing up:

Bay of Pigs = sellout of the Cuban patriots

Berlin Wall = self-serving posturing (don't recall HIM telling Krushchev, "Mr. Kruschev, tear down this wall!" Let's see, what did he say again -- "Ich bin eine grandstander?")

Cuban Missile Crisis = "No choice -- we've been outmaneuvered and we're nailed, either way. We have to call their bluff, and pray that they blink." Lucky choice.

Bang, you're dead. Despite all the Camelot crap during and since the Kennedy administration, he was not during his lifetime an effective or popular president. The mindless fawned over Jackie's preoccupation with fashion and being the American queen, and even we conservatives thought the Kennedy kids were cute, but it was Johnson who rammed through all the horrendously expensive legislation Kennedy tried to get enacted, (education, Great Society, Viet Nam War) but could not. Arguably, had he not been assassinated, we'd be less far down the road of socialism than we are now.

46 posted on 04/08/2002 12:03:25 PM PDT by MI_too
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To: dts32041
Now what was so great about [Kennedy's "accomplishments"]

You forgot that he made it mandatory for federal employees to join a union, inspired Bill Clinton, got us more involved in Vietnam.

In his defense, and the his real legacy (which p!sses off his daughter) is his tax cuts. The downside of all that
revenue pouring in to the Treasury was the "Great Society".

Still, all these Kennedy worshippers fail to realize that he was not in office long enough to really do anything to
receive the adoration that he does.

47 posted on 04/08/2002 12:05:01 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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