regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| regicide wrote: |
Kennedy wasn�t prepared for the job either, but when the Missile Crisis came, he handled it better than could have been expected. |
He made a mockery of us at the Bay of Pigs.
And he brought us to the brink of a nuclear exchange with the Missile Crisis.
But comparisons of him to Obama are unfair. Obama has at least worked to get where he was, but Kennedy was supported by the mob. |
You are right about one thing- - that Kennedy was elected because of his father�s money and help from the mob. But the Bay of Pigs was handed to him by the previous administration of (General) Eisenhower. What was he going to do in that situation? Ike said it was a good idea and all his advisors; the so called �best and the brightest� did too.
And in the Missile Crisis he got us OUT of nuclear war. It was the Russians who brought us to the brink of war with their missiles. And if he would have listened to his advisors including the general staff in that situation, there WOULD have been a disaster because as I previously mentioned, it was later learned that the missiles on Cuba were FUNCTIONAL, and would have killed millions in a first strike by Russia, which would have happened had Kennedy ordered the invasion of Cuba, as his generals recommended.
Discussions about his civil rights �record� seem to be irrelevant to this discussion.
Obama is ten times the man JFK ever was and Kennedy steered us though some very dangerous times.
I believe Obama has the intelligence to make the right decisions in crisis situations.
We don�t need a hothead in the White House and clearly, a military man does not a good president make. |
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