Was John F Kennedy one of our finest Presidents? -

[JoeForrester1975]

His speech brought me to tears. He was a supreme gentleman of the highest order.

inb4 bay of pigs

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Anyone is a fine president compared to James Buchanan.

 

[AnOminous]

He got shot. He was real pretty.

The busts of him are definitely among the best busts of Presidents we have. Because he was our best twink President.

He also got us into Vietnam.

 

[IV 445]

Mixed, as you can tell. Hindsight is 20/20. I’d hate to say his presidency was a failure, it being only 2 years long, but if his only accomplishments were tax cuts and sleeping with Marilyn Monroe idk what else to call his administration.

 

[AnOminous]

LBJ was better because he could actually get shit done after JFK got whacked.

 

[sikotik]

He also got us into Vietnam.

We were probably going to get sucked into that mess eventually no matter who was president at the time.

plus there was this:

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

Camelot was a myth and the Kennedy myth has overshadowed the man himself. SJWs today would find him problematic. Same with LBJ.

 

[HY 140]

both real life and clone high JFK are cool to me

 

[cypocraphy]

He could have started a nuclear war, but didn't. That was pretty kind of him.

 

[Another Fellow]

According to Chris, he was our best. He overcame staggering drawbacks, like being a war hero from a wealthy family, to become President. I mean, how inspiring is that?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

 

[Dirt McGirt]

I'm more of an Andrew Jackson kinda guy. While JFK is symbolically a good president, he was always a bit too much style over substance for me.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

I keep a large framed photograph of the man above my desk so that should clue you in on my opinions.

 

[AnOminous]

He was really pretty.

Admit it, you'd fuck him.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

He was really pretty.

Admit it, you'd fuck him.

I don't have a lot of time so I couldn't find any funny images to reply to this with, but I just wanted you to know I can now say I once googled "president kennedy yaoi" at work and it's because of you.

 

[skiddlez]

I'd be interested in a poll asking whether the majority of us believe he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald or the CIA. I think last time I read into it, the majority of Americans believe the CIA whacked him. I wonder how we stand.

He pissed off the bureaucratic swamp cause he was against the Fed, which is great. Also his quote "ask not what your country can do for you" symbolizes a much different time in the Democratic party when they weren't trying to make literally everyone reliant on the state.

LBJ was better because he could actually get shit done after JFK got whacked.

"I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."

 

[Joan Nyan]

He set the unconstitutional and unconscionable Civil Rights Act into motion that stripped states and individuals of their God-given right to choose whomst to allow in their institutions. But, he also supported tax cuts, so it evens out.

Also his quote "ask not what your country can do for you" symbolizes a much different time in the Democratic party when they weren't trying to make literally everyone reliant on the state.

Two sides of the same Statist coin tbh.

In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, ''Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country." It is a striking sign of the temper of our times that the controversy about this passage centered on its origin and not on its content. Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic "what your country can do for you" implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man's belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, "what you can do for your country" implies that government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary. To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served. He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.

 

[Adamska]

I honestly think he's overrated. Mainly because I think Lyndon Baines Johnson was the guy who did most of what Kennedy is credited with. Well, barring getting whacked and causing mass conspiracies about it.

 

[flock of doves]

although perhaps not the best president in our history, what he did and spoke about in his brilliant speeches were truly inspiring. it was a real shame he died, considering what he could have done if oswald didn't kill him. that "we choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy, because they are hard" line has inspired me in a lot of ways.

 

[Slightly Observant]

Camelot was a myth and the Kennedy myth has overshadowed the man himself. SJWs today would find him problematic. Same with LBJ.

Each evening from December to December
Before you drift to sleep upon your cot
Think back on all the tales that you remember
Of Camelot

Ask every person if he has heard the story
And tell it strong and clear if he has not
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot

Camelot
Camelot
I know it gives a person pause
But in Camelot
Camelot
Those were the legal laws

Where once it never rained til after sundown
By 8 a.m. the morning fog had flown
Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment
That was known as Camelot