JFK served in the House of Representatives for three terms (six years), and was elected to the Senate twice (1952 and 1958). Obambi never served in the House of Representatives, and is still in his first term in the Senate. If JFK was chided as being inexperienced, then Obambi is woefully inexperienced.
The presidency is not the place for OJT (on-the-job-training).
"Ich bin ein Moonbat"
-- Barack Obama 2008
Lest we forget, it's beetle barnes' weakly standard that has been carrying water for mcqueeg lo these many months. the beltway boys have been directed away from conservatism.
they'll let us know when its safe to vote for the gop again, right now its O'Barnum all the way.
Yes, he was and brother RFK was even more of a terror to the enemies.. domestic political and ideological "enemies" that is. As for the world's bad guys.. well..
James Reston "was the first to interview Kennedy after the fateful Vienna summit in June 1961 and found him angry and shaken. Khrushchev had bullied and threatened the new president, presenting him with a deadline for signing a peace treaty giving Communist East Germany control over access to Berlin. Collecting himself [after Krushchev had continued the humiliation at a special end-of-conference one-on-one meeting Kennedy asked for], Kennedy spelled out the actions he planned to take to demonstrate American resolve [i.e., Kennedy's "I'll show him!"]. On his return to Washington, he gave orders to send more than 15,000 American advisers to Vietnam. Reston asked in astonishment 'why Vietnam?' It was an action that in Reston's eyes signaled the slide toward eventual defeat. He insists that the connection between the Vienna summit and Vietnam accounted for the president's fateful choice." [my comments]
Joseph W. Alsop set aside his judgment "that [Kennedy] was an indifferent legislator more interested in 'pretty girls' than lawmaking" and worked "diligently to see that 'his man' captured the White House" in 1960. On the way back to Washington from Vienna JFK met with his good buddy Alsop in London. "Kennedy's first words were that he was not going to give in to Khrushchev no matter what the dangers."
The Vienna and Viet Nam connection? Yes, and there's also the Bay of Pigs and Vienna connection. As I recall there was much Russian taunting and ridicule heaped on the hapless president because he had chickened out.
Berlin? Not enough courage to confront Krushchev directly a third time -- so JFK would prove that he's a man via Viet Nam. The missile crisis? Wouldn't have happened if the Soviets had failed to mop the floor with "one of America's 'greatest' presidents," IMO.
All we need is another JFK. Lord help us.
BTW, Reston was no ordinary journalist reporting from afar. He was a close friend of JFK and he was the man Kennedy confided in in Vienna and the very first man JFK talked to at length after his second humiliation by Khruschev.