Barack Obama: The Anti-JFK

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-23-10 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

November 22 was the 47th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I remember the day Kennedy died. I remember the next few days during which all TV was dedicated only to Kennedy's death and funeral. I remember the funeral cortege. I remember the lighting of the Eternal Flame. It was all in black and white, which seemed darkly appropriate.

And today I think about how different Barack Obama is from JFK and how far Democrats have fallen- how much they have deteriorated since then.

JFK and BO have some things in common. Both suffered early foreign policy setbacks. Kennedy presided over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and Obama is viewed as a failure in the Middle East.

Two years later, he has managed to forge surprising unanimity on at least one topic: Barack Obama. A visit here finds both Israelis and Palestinians blame him for the current stalemate — just as they blame one another.

Instead of becoming a heady triumph of his diplomatic skill and special insight, Obama’s peace process is viewed almost universally in Israel as a mistake-riddled fantasy. And far from becoming the transcendent figure in a centuries-old drama, Obama has become just another frustrated player on a hardened Mideast landscape.

There the similarities end.

Kennedy thought tax cuts were beneficial to get an economy moving.

"In today's economy, fiscal prudence and responsibility call for tax reduction even if it temporarily enlarges the federal deficit – why reducing taxes is the best way open to us to increase revenues."

– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: "The Economic Report Of The President"

Obama believes in Saul Alinsky.

Kennedy grew some gonads and stared Khruschev down over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Obama bows to Muslim Kings and doesn't believe in American Exceptionalism.

[hosepipe]

[ Barack Obama: The Anti-JFK ]

NOPE.... they were/are both morons..

[napscoordinator]

Obama is not even 1/2 the President that JFK was. He was incredible and would be a Republican today if he still lived. He was much more conservative than Obama. I am surprised that you don’t think that.

[uncommonsense]

I’m no fan of JFK, but at least JFK served his country in the theater of war. Barry is just plain theater, and all lies, all the time.

[jessduntno]

“I’m no fan of JFK, but at least JFK served his country in the theater of war.”

He was also a tax cutter and a defense hawk. But there is no way he was conservative or that he “would be a Republican today” or any of that nonsense. He was a big Government liberal who would have had a huge bloated Federal Gubmint takeover had he lived. Anyone who thinks this isn’t so is nuts.

[Jim Scott]

John F. Kennedy had his flaws, and I don't mean just the serial, almost obsessive adultery he is often best remembered for. The Bay of Pigs disaster was wholly preventable and JFK was ultimately responsible for it. However, he was a WWII vet and made some good decisions based on common sense (tax reduction, the Cuban missile crisis come to mind). I believe that JFK loved his country - and he died for it, assassinated in cold blood 47 long years ago. Not a great president but not a terrible one, either. Of course, as with all historical figures, one must observe them in the context of the time in which they lived and the early 1960's are far different than today. As the article points out, the Democrat party of 2010 is as far removed from the Democrat party of JFK's time as east is from west. There simply is no real comparison.

Barack Hussein Obama is as different from John F. Kennedy as the article states. Obama has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't like America or most Americans, unless they happen to agree with him or can be viewed as 'victims of capitalist oppression'. I see President Barack Hussein Obama as simply incompatible with American values. That America elected this man as our president, with all the power that office contains, is frightening. However, I'm confident that we'll survive Obama. Well, pretty confident, anyway.

[hinckley buzzard]

I remember the day Kennedy died. I remember the next few days during which all TV was dedicated only to Kennedy's death and funeral. I remember the funeral cortege. I remember the lighting of the Eternal Flame

Bah. I remember the day a naive and inexperienced Kennedy was humiliated in Vienna by Khrushchev. I remember the day he dithered, betrayed, and abandoned the Cuban freedom fighters by reneging on air support at the last minute. I remember how he guaranteed Castro's reign forever in a meek concession to get the USSR to remove missiles from Cuba.

I remember how he allowed the government workforce to unionize, thus creating many of the crippling failures of government today. I remember how he browbeat the steel companies into accepting union terms, thus signing the death warrant of the steel industry in America.

I remember how he pressured Sammy Davis Jr to put off his marriage to a white woman until after the election so he wouldn't be questioned by all his racist redneck supporters. Frank Sinatra was so pissed at JFK for this he became a republican.

Actually, JFK was a pretty good precursor to the obama regime.

[hinckley buzzard]

I don't mean just the serial, almost obsessive adultery he is often best remembered for

Actually no one remembers him for this, because it was mostly unknown during his life. It only began to leak out some time later after Jackie deserted Camelot, went Greek and married Ari Onassis.

[mirkwood]

[hosepipe]

[ He was incredible and would be a Republican today if he still lived. He was much more conservative than Obama. I am surprised that you don’t think that. ]

Everybody was more conservative then.. even most democrats..
But even then many knew the democrat party was on the way to becoming ultra leftist.. it was no surprise..

No Democracy has ever been democratic.. Democracy is a lie..
Democracy was, is and will be Mob Rule.. by mobsters..

Democrats are for a Democracy..
Republicans are for a Republic..
Thats WHY?. America is a republic and NOT a democracy..
There are two words seen NOWhere in the american constitution.. democracy and democratic..
It was ON PURPOSE.. democracy sucks has always sucked.. It results in socialism...
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Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx

[Reagan Man]

All this revisionism about JFK is downright silly. I seriously doubt had JFK lived that he would have been much different then his brothers.

Back in his day, JFK was considered a Scoop Jackson Democrat, someone tough on national security matters. The problem was, on domestic spending and social issues JFK was a liberal Democrat.

JFK was a strong supporter of FDR's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal and used both to advance his New Frontier agenda. JFK was responsible for reintroducing food stamps, expanding anti-poverty programs, housing for the poor, increased Social Security and unemployment benefits, higher minimum wage and the biggest federal farm bill in 25 years.

JFK knew that cutting taxes would increase revenue and that would help to pay for his New Frontier agenda and expanded welfare state policies. LBJ actually passed the Kennedy tax cuts after the assassination and that helped advanced his Great Society programs like Medicare.

If JFK was around today, he'd be giving kudos to Obama, just like Fat TeddyK did before he died.

[Democrats hate too much]

"Barack Obama: The Anti-JFK"

Another difference is that when the failed Bay of Pigs happened right after JFK took office, JFK took full responsibility. Everyone knew this was something that was planned way before he took office BUT JFK took full responsibility. This action lead to a lot of people liking him... Obama on the other hand missed out. He decided to blame Bush for everything the moment he was in office. It would have been smart for Obama to do what JFK did and just take responsibility for everything right away (people would have realized he had only been there for a couple weeks and it can't be his fault). At that point people would not have blamed him and would have liked to see the guy take responsibility. But no, he just blamed Bush. I thought about JFK a lot throughout the first couple months of Obama's presidency.

[wolfcreek]

Kennedy took on the Fed and that might of cost him his life.

Obama just gives head to the Fed.