JFK Still Most Highly-Regarded Former President

CBS News ^ | December 6, 2010

[EyeGuy]

The Leftist Camelot mythology has much to do with this nonsense, but let’s be blunt:

The handsome JFK, still young and with not even the hint of a receding hair line, was tragically taken from his atttractive young family.

Sorry, but sometimes it is that simple.

[IMR 4350]

During JFK’s term I learned to sing “Duck, and cover, and kiss your ass goodbye” does that count?

[andy58-in-nh]

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

Yes, but only to her knees.

[EyeGuy]

Ignore.

Testing tagline reinsertion...

[Cincinatus]

So what?

Brilliant riposte.

Your response assumes an either/or choice. I reject that analysis. The Soviets were in no position to launch a nuclear war. Moreover, we knew that. JFK just wanted the crisis to go away and he cut a less than optimum deal.

I don't particularly fault him for that. I just contend that he didn't "roll" Khruschev.

[101voodoo]

Yeah, getting assassinated will do wonders for your posthumous approval rating.

Personally I’d rather give up a few points and stay in the game.

[Hattie]

Truth is, many people probably voted for him because they hadn’t even heard of some of the others.

[Dixie Yooper]

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

Had he live to the end of his term, Barry Goldwater would have been Elected President in 1964. Kennedy would have been regarded somewhere between James Earl Carter and Andrew Johnson.

[SnakeDoctor]

>> Brilliant riposte.

Sometimes a simple response will suffice.

>> Your response assumes an either/or choice. I reject that analysis. The Soviets were in no position to launch a nuclear war. Moreover, we knew that. JFK just wanted the crisis to go away and he cut a less than optimum deal.

The Soviets were in a perfect position to launch such a war — we would’ve have little time to respond before being obliterated. I think the American people just wanted the crisis to go away ... they didn’t care about Cuba, Castro or political prisoners when they were at risk of being vaporized by Soviet nukes. We came very close to the brink.

Like I said ... I fail to see how a better solution could’ve been reached. Turkey and Cuba were secondary concerns, and were treated as such.

SnakeDoc

[Da Coyote]

Ah, gotta love “symbolism over substance”.

Try reading “A Question of Character” sometimes to find out just how sleazy the Kennedy Kollection of Septic Tank Dwellers really were (and are).

[Dixie Yooper]

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

and started World War III in the process.

[Nosterrex]

How many people that voted for JFK were even alive when he was POTUS? I am old enough to remember him, and I certainly remember where I was when reports of his assignation were announced. JFK is far more popular today than when he was live. From what we have learned about his womanizing and his deceptions, it is disappointing to hear that he is listed at the top. Jimmy Carter should be on the bottom of the list. I lived through his term, and it was no fun. This only shows how corrupt and dishonest the MSM is and the miseducation of our youth.

[Cincinatus]

Like I said ... I fail to see how a better solution could’ve been reached

That's the one statement you've made that I agree with.

[oh8eleven]

JFK had he lived would not have been re-elected in 1964. His polling in 1963 was NOT good.
Which is why he was in Dallas ... a PR trip for southern votes.

[ansel12]

JFK was an incompetent boob that got us into Vietnam, and who wanted to give us the immigration that we live under now.

[US Navy Vet]

Humm Dallas in Texas...LBJ from Texas....JFK shot in Dallas, Texas.....HUMMMM...!

[handmade]

He really messed up so far as his private/family life was concerned. In those days the womanizing of our “leaders” was severely quashed.

And no he was not there long enough to do or not do much of anything so far as leading our country went. So Camelot lives on.

[Petruchio]

I guess the leftists polled think JFK was some sort of superdude or something. After all, he was able to stop a speeding bullet with his head.

Granted, he only did that once . . .

[Huebolt]

President John F. Kennedy's medical records reveal that he had suffered health problems since childhood, and used an arsenal of drugs, including painkillers and stimulants, to treat various medical conditions during his presidency. A historian who examined his medical records was stunned at the extent of the health problems that the seemingly vigorous president dealt with. "There was hardly a day that went by that he didn't suffer terribly," presidential historian Robert Dallek, a history professor at Boston University, told ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. The revelations about JFK's health are included in Dallek's forthcoming book, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, which is excerpted in the December issue of Atlantic Monthly. Dallek was granted exclusive access to Kennedy's private papers for the years 1955 to 1963, including his X-rays and prescription drug records. Kennedy suffered from colitis, prostatitis, and a disorder called Addison's disease, which affects the body's ability to regulate blood sugar and sodium. He also had osteoporosis of the lower back, causing pain so severe that he was unable to perform simple tasks such as reaching across his desk to pull papers forward, or pulling the shoe and sock onto his left foot, Dallek said. Taking Drugs During Crises To fight the pain, Kennedy took as many as 12 medications at once, taking more during times of stress. The medical records reveal that Kennedy variously took codeine, Demerol and methadone for pain; Ritalin, a stimulant; meprobamate and librium for anxiety; barbiturates for sleep; thyroid hormone; and injections of a blood derivative, gamma globulin, a medicine that combats infections. During the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Kennedy was taking steroids for his Addison's disease, painkillers for his back, anti-spasmodics for his colitis, antibiotics for urinary tract infections, antihistamines for his allergies, and on at least one occasion, an anti-psychotic drug to treat a severe mood change that Jackie Kennedy believed was brought on by the antihistamines

He did, indeed, LAND US ON THE MOON. Kudos for that, at least. obama KILLED NASA...

[oh8eleven]

2. Got the U.S. involved in Vietnam.
That was Eisenhower, not JFK.