Kennedy.Other than carter,he is the only president since then who wasnt an evil corrupted man and unlike the others,had the interests of the people ahead of him instead of the government.He did more for the country in his short one thousand days of office than any president except for Washington.thats why he got killed by the government because unlike the other presidents,he cared about the people.
Originally posted by Mr Parker
Kennedy.Other than carter,he is the only president since then who wasnt an evil corrupted man and unlike the others,had the interests of the people ahead of him instead of the government.He did more for the country in his short one thousand days of office than any president except for Washington.thats why he got killed by the government because unlike the other presidents,he cared about the people.
Whoah! Where did that come from, the Oliver Stone school of history? Kennedy is one of the most flawed individuals to ever sit in the White House. You wanna talk corrupt? How about Sam Giancano and the mob? How about pulling a train with Marilyn Monroe? Before you say, "who can blame him?" Understand that he was essentially sharing her with his brother, Robert. (It's possible he may have had something to do with Monroe's death.)
His book "Profiles in Courage" was ghost authored by another individual to whom he never gave credit. His father was a bootlegger and a gangster, which meant that most of his family's rise to power is tied to dirty money.
He was drug addict, a chronic womanizer, and a generally vacuous human being who preferred gambling in Vegas and using his brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, as a Hollywood pimp to concerning himself with affairs of state.
Kennedy is certainly not the worst of 20th century presidents, but let's not kid ourselves about his moral character or relative strength as a president. Based on his performance in office, I'd grant him a grade of fair, but not great. Of course, the irony, is that by today's standards, he would probably be considered a Republican. An avid cold warrior, hater of communism, and generally open to lowering taxes to stimulate economic growth...these were the good things about the man...not all that Camelot bullshit.
Carter may have been well-intentioned, but he is unquestionably the most ineffectual president of the 20th century. He should have never left the peanut farm.
Originally posted by Dr. Zaius
Whoah! Where did that come from, the Oliver Stone school of history? Kennedy is one of the most flawed individuals to ever sit in the White House. You wanna talk corrupt? How about Sam Giancano and the mob? How about pulling a train with Marilyn Monroe? Before you say, "who can blame him?" Understand that he was essentially sharing her with his brother, Robert. (It's possible he may have had something to do with Monroe's death.)His book "Profiles in Courage" was ghost authored by another individual to whom he never gave credit. His father was a bootlegger and a gangster, which meant that most of his family's rise to power is tied to dirty money.
He was drug addict, a chronic womanizer, and a generally vacuous human being who preferred gambling in Vegas and using his brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, as a Hollywood pimp to concerning himself with affairs of state.
Kennedy is certainly not the worst of 20th century presidents, but let's not kid ourselves about his moral character or relative strength as a president. Based on his performance in office, I'd grant him a grade of fair, but not great. Of course, the irony, is that by today's standards, he would probably be considered a Republican. An avid cold warrior, hater of communism, and generally open to lowering taxes to stimulate economic growth...these were the good things about the man...not all that Camelot bullshit.
Carter may have been well-intentioned, but he is unquestionably the most ineffectual president of the 20th century. He should have never left the peanut farm.
Sure he is flawed but unlike George Bush,he was an apple that fell pretty far from the tree.He wasnt like his dad at all.It was his dad Joe Kennedy that was mob friendly with Sam Giancana and the mafia.JFK was only romansing Giancana's mistress.Matter of fact,JFK'S own dad hated him because after getting elected as president,he went after the mob which got him elected thanks to Joe Kennedys ties to the mob.Since Joe kennedy had so many friends in the mob like Giancana,Giancana and others naturally thought JFK would be like his father.Like father like son and would as president, turn a blind eye to the mobs activites but he double crossed the mob and went after them tooth and nail.The mob hated RFK even more so because RFK who ran the justice department,was the real kennedy coming down hard cracking down on the mobs activities.Theres no real proof that the kennedys had any involvement in Marilyns death.From the actions of them while they were in office,I have to tend to believe what others say, that the goverment tried to make it look like the kennedys had something to do with her murder.
What he did as president is what counts and like i said,he did more for the country as a presidnet in his short one thousand days of office than any other president except for honest abe and washington.Sure he was a womanizer,a gambler and chronic drug addict.But hey! That wouldnt stop me from being friends with somebody.No question that he wasnt the great family man with no flaws that the media painted him out to be with no flaws like the public thought he was but as president,he cared about the people and wasnt corrupted like every single president we have had since then which again carter is the exception.
See thats why carter was ineffectual as president because every president after carter have been extremely corrupted so the elite-who control this country said-we have had so many scandals and corruption with every president since kennedy lets make carter a president.He has decent morals and vaules.That was the only reason carter got elected.Presidents dont rule this country.They are just puppets.If they dont go along with what the elite wants,then they wind up like kennedy and Carter knew that so he allowed them to make him look ineffectual as president.Thats just another example of a good president who didnt stay in office very long.Carter like kennedy, towards the end of his administration also had a lot of reform ideas to get rid of the CIA as well.But like I said,he didnt start to implement those ideas until towards the end of his administration so he never had enough time to try and get them started.Lets not forget carter was the president who did a very good deed by pardoning vietnam deserters who fled for canada for oppossing that stupid war as well.Carter unlike the other presidents we have had since kennedy, was at least a humane man.This may sound like I am a democrat but there could be nothing further from the truth because till the current president we have now came along,I considered Clinton tied with Nixon as the most evil and corrupted president we have ever had.