[BillyBoy]

>> Because if Bill Clinton can be called America's first black president, some say, then George W. Bush could well be the nation's first Catholic president. JFK wasn't president in the early 1960s? I seem to have heard something about an assassination . . . <<

JFK was indeed President, he just wasn't Catholic. He may have been baptized "Catholic", but he didn't practice it and opposed church doctrine, not to mention he could care less what the Pope thought (and ironically the Catholic bashers claimed that, if elected, JFK would be a puppet of the Pope)

Since JFK never observed Catholic beliefs, that would make George W. Bush the closest thing we've ever had to a "Catholic" President.

[ArrogantBustard]

and ironically the Catholic bashers claimed that, if elected, JFK would be a puppet of the Pope)

Yes, very ironic. Kennedy "proved them wrong" by becoming their puppet.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

JFK was indeed President, he just wasn't Catholic. He may have been baptized "Catholic", but he didn't practice it and opposed church doctrine, not to mention he could care less what the Pope thought (and ironically the Catholic bashers claimed that, if elected, JFK would be a puppet of the Pope)

Since JFK never observed Catholic beliefs, that would make George W. Bush the closest thing we've ever had to a "Catholic" President.

This is some seriously self-serving reasoning, and quite a stretch just to make a silly rhetorical point, don't you think? Whatever you may think of his beliefs and his failings as a Catholic, JFK was, nonetheless, a Catholic, and the first (and only) Catholic ever elected President of the United States.