rudeguy
Lifer
OK...lets look at JFK:
He never worked a real job in his life. The only job he had that could be considered real was in the Navy and his Daddy had to pull strings to get him that. Otherwise he would not have even been let in.
Bay of Pigs: There was already a decent plan in place to overthrow Castro. Kennedy went ahead with the plan but got scared at the last moment. This cause the invasion to fail, killed over 300 soldiers and forced us to "buy" the remaining soldiers back from Castro.
Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cube that was illegal under international law. Rather than follow the law, he simply called it a "quarantine" and pretended everything was fine. He failed so dramatically at negotiations that the world was hours away from total destruction. He was ready to end the whole word rather than fix the problem. Luckily a washed up spy worked a back room deal where we agreed to pull our missiles out of Turkey and USSR pulled theirs out of Cuba. This was not thanks to JFK, it was in spite of JFK.
Domestic policy: He sicked 3000 federal soldiers on citizens in a law enforcement roll.
Space program: He lied to the American people about the purpose and reason for the moon program. Hint: it wasn't because it would be neat to put a man on the moon
Personal life: he not only cheated on his wife, he flaunted it. He did not care what it did to her or his children.
JFK should not even be considered a good president let alone a great one.
