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CNN Poll: JFK tops presidential rankings for last 50 years
CNN ^ | 11/22/2103

Posted on 11/22/2013 11:39:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A CNN/ORC International survey released Friday indicates that 90% of all Americans approve of how Kennedy handled his job as President. No other President of the last half century even comes close.

Second place belongs to Ronald Reagan, with a 78% retrospective approval rating, followed by Bill Clinton with 74%. Richard Nixon, Kennedy's 1960 rival and the only president ever forced to resign, is at the bottom with only 31% approving of his track record from 1969 to 1974. Only George W. Bush, with a 42% retrospective approval rating, is also under 50%.

"History has generally been kind to ex-presidents, but none more so than Kennedy. His approval rating in November of 1963 was 58%. In the 1990s, that number rose to 78% and rose even further in later years," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jfk; kennedy
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To: The Sons of Liberty

He did a pretty good job muffing up our relationship with Vietnam, as well, and got an ally assassinated in the process.


61 posted on 11/22/2013 1:02:11 PM PST by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

The Kennedy myth!


62 posted on 11/22/2013 1:11:06 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: SeekAndFind

All this undulating genuflecting at the memory of JFK almost matches the unparalleled worship given to MLK at his praise and worship ceremony. The American people could hardly have picked two more reprobate men to set up as idols.


63 posted on 11/22/2013 1:39:56 PM PST by 426cuda
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To: Viennacon

He retired in 1993.


64 posted on 11/22/2013 1:46:57 PM PST by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: Clump

90 % probably never heard of him.. well maybe fifty percent


65 posted on 11/22/2013 2:03:03 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: slumber1; okie01; null and void; SunkenCiv
Recently opened White House taped conversations and other documents reveal a president who recognized the inherent dangers of military intervention in Vietnam and who had devised an exit strategy

Hmmmm....not that Bush and Obama did/didnt/wtf/owtfwc have exit strategies...maybe both of them only wanted to do as much damage to this country as possible and exit...stage left...only history will tell...because the people living/lived through it can't

66 posted on 11/22/2013 2:26:02 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: SeekAndFind

We don’t call CNN the “Communist News Network” for nothing.
I am proud to say that JFK did not win my home state of Tennessee. I was a 16 year old campaign worker for the Republican party.


67 posted on 11/22/2013 2:39:01 PM PST by AlexW
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To: SeekAndFind

PURE MYTH AND FICTION


68 posted on 11/22/2013 2:53:17 PM PST by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Hojczyk

I don’t think 50% of lawyers could tell you who Kennedy put on the SCOTUS.


69 posted on 11/22/2013 3:10:06 PM PST by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: JaguarXKE
When will he be canonized a saint?

Say what?? He achieved sainthood on Nov. 22, 1963.

Jackie's sainthood was expunged, though, after she married Ari.

And Teddy's sainthood was somewhat smeared after Mary Jo Kophechne drowned.

70 posted on 11/22/2013 4:34:15 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: JaguarXKE
"When will he be canonized a saint?"

bump

71 posted on 11/22/2013 4:50:16 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: The Sons of Liberty; napscoordinator
"I don't know anyone could rate him anywhere near the top. His bungling of the Bay of Pigs almost started WWIII with the Cuban Crisis. He did a pretty good job with that, but otherwise, nada."

Naps just likes playing devil's advocate on the forum.

72 posted on 11/22/2013 4:54:33 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: SeekAndFind

If they take another such poll starting Saturday, Kennedy can’t even be included.


73 posted on 11/22/2013 5:01:35 PM PST by stevem
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To: SeekAndFind
He had his good points. I have tremendous respect for his positive outlook
in his short time as President.


74 posted on 11/22/2013 5:01:52 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: bigheadfred

Off-the-record loose talk by a Dead Kennedy doesn’t mean much. I think JFK would have done a better job (at first), but he planned to escalate in Vietnam, despite having spent his Senate years bitching about the Eisenhower administration’s pretty minor involvement in “Indo-China”, particular in “Lay OS” (that’s how the Hyannisport Hustler pronounced it).

Kennedy campaigned on “missile gap” and the need for “brushfire wars”, but once in office crippling the Bay of Pigs and (as quoted in “Conversations with Kennedy”) said ‘watch the generals’ because they don’t necessarily know what they’re doing (IOW, his mistake, owning it in public, desclaiming it in private); then taking the US closer to the brink than the brinkmanship years of Truman and Eisenhower during the Missile Crisis. Oh yeah, great president.

Jake Javits referred to JFK as “a lousy president”, and I can’t but agree. Despite his massive blundering into Vietnam and escalating beyond comprehension, while micromanaging it from DC, LBJ got a lot more done and dealt with problems far more effectively. And he only had two more years in office than JFK.

JFK and his brother picked a fight with the Mob and both were assassinated in retribution. That’s pretty much diagnostic of “not too bright”. They were smart, but arrogant beyond belief (IOW, quintessential Demwits), and despite being wildly popular and charistmatic to the great unwashed, the brothers and their Ivy League genius brigade alienated everyone else.

Joe Sr’s plan was for Joe Jr to run for President. At a large private gathering, Joe Sr toasted his eldest son as “a future president of the United States.” Jr blew up trying to fly a planeload of high explosive (bailing out at the last minute) into the French coastal cliffs where the London Guns were being constructed. When he heard the news, JFK reportedly told his shipmate, “I can feel Pappy’s eyes on me now.”

JFK was to have eight years, followed by Bobby in 1968 (and he did indeed run on schedule, but, uh, didn’t finish the race), and then by Fatso Teddy in 1976. Ted had a press conference declining to run, and not expecting to ever run again. But Carter effed things up so badly in Fatso’s opinion that he ran against him in 1980. When Carter heard he’d announced his challenge, he said, “I’ll whip his ass.” And he did.

Kennedy’s campaign included no specifics on Israel, instead redirecting questions about it to inquiries about what Carter’s actual position was. (we know now, don’t we? Carter had his various family proxies taking different positions on US-Israel relations, one of these was a call for “undivided Jerusalem”). He also wanted to push for universal health care, and said “I’d let the Blues do it.”


75 posted on 11/22/2013 5:40:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv; null and void
but he planned to escalate in Vietnam

let me review this and that and get back to you on 'tall

and any further commentary on your comments will be held in said abeyance

SHUT UP OBIWAN! (oops did i say that out loud)

76 posted on 11/22/2013 6:09:23 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: The Sons of Liberty; CatherineofAragon

I was not born for another 7 years. Catherine was right.....Reagan than JFK....lol. Come on.


77 posted on 11/22/2013 7:25:36 PM PST by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama/Hillary-Benghazi=4 dead.

JFK-Bay of Pigs=1400 killed or captured to spend the rest of their lives in one of Castro's prisons.

Same Shit Different Democrat!

78 posted on 11/22/2013 7:27:23 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: onyx

The man was not a bad President but he was not assured reelection. Like obama... he stole the election with help from evil doers. His murder was unconscionable and evil but you are correct... Camelot was a fantasy. That entire family is cursed with sadness and failure. ted kennedy tried to sell us out to the Soviets and the KGB released the proof a decade ago.


79 posted on 11/23/2013 4:45:47 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: depenzz

Camelot was more like the Sopranos than Camelot.


80 posted on 11/23/2013 4:46:38 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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