JFK vs. BHO--Somewhat Similar, Mostly Different (Part Three)

JFK vs. BHO--Somewhat Similar, Mostly Different (Part Three)

Patrick Buchanan believes, had the assassination of John F. Kennedy not occurred fifty years ago, JFK would be remembered as a mediocre president who accomplished little aside from the passage of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and establishing the Peace Corps.  His other “achievements,” including ending the Cuban Missile Crisis, were all tainted in some way or left unfinished, such as cutting taxes which Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Congress in Kennedy’s name.

As Buchanan wrote on HumanEvents.com, “Had there been no Dallas, there would been no Camelot.  There would have been no John F. Kennedy as brilliant statesman cut off in his prime, had it not been for those riveting days from Dealey Plaza to Arlington and the lighting of the Eternal Flame.  Along with the unsleeping labors of an idolatrous press and the propagandists who control America’s popular culture, those four days created and sustained the Kennedy Myth.”

Pat Buchanan is probably correct even if the “idolatrous press and the propagandists” still profess JFK’s greatness, much like they still praise our current president despite his few real successes and his many abject failures. 

One such worshipful piece published in April 2012 on WashingtonMonthly.com titled, “Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments” listed “health care reform,” “passing the stimulus,” ”Wall Street reform,” “ending the war in Iraq,” and “began drawdown of war in Afghanistan” as the top five.

Given the retrospective of 17 months, if those five are Obama’s greatest accomplishments, he actually has none.

If and when the Washington Monthly ever lists his greatest bungles and wrecks, they should be at or near the head of the heap: Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster, the stimulus has stimulated nothing except malaise, Wall Street is as profitably corrupt as ever, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still raging fiercely though on a smaller scale.

However, unlike Kennedy, Obama was the recipient of the highly prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his trying to make the world a better place.
According to the Nobel Committee, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=34224.) 

JFK vs. BHO--Somewhat Similar, Mainly Different

JFK vs. BHO--Somewhat Similar, Mainly Different (Part One)

 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was murdered almost 50 years ago in Dallas’ Dealey Square by Lee Harvey Oswald, a malcontented Marxist.  By most  objective accounts, JFK was a mediocre president during his brief tenure as America’s commander in chief and tragically short life of 46 years, a tenure and a life that has been exponentially exaggerated since November 23rd, 1963. With many notable exceptions, Kennedy was much like our 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama. 
A handsome, charismatic man, blessed with an enchanting wife and two beguiling children, JFK accomplished precious little as president over the course of his scant 1,036 days in office, somewhat fewer accomplishments than Obama, yet Jack’s memory still enjoys a distinctive prominence in American political history that will elude Barack, unless one regards abject failure a cause for remembrance.
Not that the illicit romances of American presidents–and their number is almost incalculable–constitute valid reason for chiseling a president’s legacy in stone or face on Mount Rushmore, but they do serve to reflect the fundamental nature and character of those leaders.
Jack was the cat’s meow, the bees’ knees, antiquated expressions describing a cool, stylish guy who had “a way with the ladies,” so to speak.  In short, he was an unreconstructed rake.
Obama seems somewhat more selective in his choice of ”ladies” than Kennedy was, preferring the ladies of “The View” who idolized him as “eye candy, ” (his self-description), and Kennedy preferring to get it on with . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=34064.)