JFK

[The Godfather]

Why do people like JFK so much? I don't get it!

 

[mundane]

The whole American Royalty / last gunslinger allure? I don't really get it either, after reading up on some of the Kennedy family escapades.

 

[ElFenix]

he was the first neocon

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Why do people like JFK so much? I don't get it!

because he was killed?

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Why do people like JFK so much? I don't get it!

...he was the last real democrat. All the others since.. are socialist wack jobs.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: DocHolliday

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Why do people like JFK so much? I don't get it!

because he was killed?

Because he was the President of the United States Of America.

And he was not wimpy.

How can you not like a Man that had a Beautiful movie star sing
Happy Birthday Mr President. {Marilyn Monroe}

He had a lot of great ideas,and was killed before some of them really
got started;some of them President Lyndon Johnson followed thru with.


http://www.screenlegends.com/History.htm
http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/happybday.htm

 

[The Godfather]

Still, he did nothing positive, even if he had those ideas, they never came true, so I don't give him any credit for any of it. He was ugly and hunchbacked too.

 

[captains]

because he was young
because he didnt want the war in vietnam

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Why do people like JFK so much? I don't get it!

The Cold War space race & Marilyn Monroe!

 

[dug777]

He was the man in the solomons in the war

I've visted the island he was stuck on.

 

[ThePresence]

Because he was young, good looking and charismatic. Of course he was nothing else without daddy Joe there to pull the strings.

 

[leftyman]

He represented something like a "youth movement" to people, he was young, handsome and had a pretty wife and attractive family. I think he represented hope to blacks and other minorities and he presented himself as an invigorating leader.
One of the reasons he is remembered so positivly now was his unfulfilled legacy, when people think of him they think of what his triumphs would have been rather than his failures.

 

[Baked]

Peeeee N Nnnnnnn

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Baked
Peeeee N Nnnnnnn

OK, this is getting absurd.

"Why do people like George Washington so much?"
"Peeeee N Nnnnnnn!!11!1!!ONE!1!!1ONE11!!"

 

[TallBill]

Because he is cute.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Still, he did nothing positive, even if he had those ideas, they never came true, so I don't give him any credit for any of it. He was ugly and hunchbacked too.

He was "hunchbacked" due to an injury he suffered while serving his country in WWII. :|

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Still, he did nothing positive, even if he had those ideas, they never came true, so I don't give him any credit for any of it. He was ugly and hunchbacked too.

He was "hunchbacked" due to an injury he suffered while serving his country in WWII. :|

read my post above

 

[meltdown75]

because people get crazy popular when they're assassinated / die.

doubly so if that person happens to be the leader of the free world.

people all of a sudden love him more, because he is dead and gone and they can never have him back.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Still, he did nothing positive, even if he had those ideas, they never came true, so I don't give him any credit for any of it. He was ugly and hunchbacked too.

LBJ worked to get important civil rights legislation passed in large part because it was what JFK would have done if he was not assassinated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

 

[zoiks]

Best thing to come out of TX. Maybe the only best thing.

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
Why do people like JFK so much? I don't get it!

His vision on direction of the country should go:
for example setting the goal of going to the moon

His compassion or sense of doing the right thing:
for example his championing the Civil Rights movement and the creation of the Peace Core.

His sense of humor.

His sense and knowlegde of history.

His handling of the Cuban missle crisis. I think his contemporaries, for example Nixon, would have push the USSR into a nuclear exchange.

The health of the economy at the time.

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: zoiks
Best thing to come out of TX. Maybe the only best thing.

QFT!

 

[ondarkness]

the only best thing.

 

[Ausm]

He was a lot like Clinton


Ausm