JFK Still Most Highly-Regarded Former President

CBS News ^ | December 6, 2010

[ConservativeStatement]

Former president John F. Kennedy, Jr. remains the most popular of recent past American presidents, according to a recent Gallup poll, while former President Richard Nixon continues to rank as the least popular.

According to the poll, Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, enjoys an 85 percent approval rating - up one point from 2006 figures. He bests by 11 points former President Ronald Reagan, who clocked in at second place with a 74 percent rating.

[ConservativeStatement]

“By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well,” Bill Clinton. Well, he did lift Monica.

[RexBeach]

What about Millard Fillmore?

[Turbo Pig]

JFK Still Most Highly-Regarded Former President by liberals and Democrats

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Former president John F. Kennedy, Jr."

Um... John-John was never elected President (and neither was his daddy, for that matter).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Had he lived to the end of his term he wouldn't be.

[Michael.SF.]

Polls like this are a continued declaration of the total inadequacy of the American Educational system.

[N. Theknow]

Who the Hell did Gallup poll for this crap?

The CBS newsroom?

Don't liberals have anybody else to swoon over other than the Camelot BS?

[ConservativeStatement]

I was in a store yesterday. A sign on a shelf read “3 for $10.00.” A smaller sticker read “That's like $3.34 each.” "Like"? Oh my. And was a second sign really needed?

[GeronL]

Why?/ Maybe it was because his term was so short?

[fireman15]

During Reagan’s presidency and for years afterwards, liberals alternatively described him as a senile dunce or the most evil man in history. At his funeral a strange transformation seemed to take place... suddenly many liberals seemed to try to claim him as one of their own. It was very strange.

[GeronL]

lol.

Sometimes stores will have a sale that says 3 for $10 and a second notice will say but if you buy 1 its regular price.

[brytlea]

It would have been a more interesting poll if they had made the respondents list one thing he did that they admired.

[ken21]

fashionable elitist incompetence.

[US Navy Vet]

The day that the last descendant of Joe and Rose Kennedy dies will not come too soon. I HATE DYNASTIES(Bush, Kennedy, Clinton etc)

[Reagan Man]

Ain’t it great to be a historic martyr. The ultimate victim.

And the illusion continues.

[Kimmers]

I work at a private school and one of the 8th grade boys said to me that he wanted to be like one of the Kennedy's. I told him that he is better than that and said they cheated on their wives and he should not strive to be like that.

The next day he told me that his father said I must be a Republican for saying something like that....I said it does not matter what I am but those are the facts......

[Mobties]

I must be having a “senior moment”. Someone please remind me, apart from lowering the tax rates and a few memorable speeches, what accomplishments in foreign or domestic policy is one to associate with the Kennedy administration?

[bgill]

Only because he wasn’t in office long enough to really mess things up.

[broken_arrow1]

...in 1958 when an aide to New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. suggested that city workers could be a large enough voting bloc to ensure his reelection. Wager signed an executive order authorizing city workers, notably those of the transit system, to unionize and bargain collectively. As the percentage of Americans working for the government grew, other politicians began to see support for public employee unions as a way to get votes. State politicians around the country allowed public employees to unionize shortly after Wagner’s executive order. President John F. Kennedy allowed federal government workers to unionize starting in 1962.

[Happy Rain]

I would prefer JFK right now over both Obama AND McCain.

He was a supply-sider who hated socialism and he would have won the Vietnam War.

His death gave us LBJ and THEN America went to heck.