50 years ago today

[SNOOPY]

I wasn't born yet

But I don't like all the hype about him. Personally I think he sucked as a president.

I'm probably in the minority, but I find this JFK adoration amazing.


He should have never been president, the mob rigged the voting. Then he double crossed them after he was in office.


He was a drug addict.


He whored around the White House and outside it too.


He made the Cuban Missle Crisis even more of a crisis, it is believed he delayed his agreement with Russia just to puff himself up.


So, kind of like today, more or less.


(that was a quote I agree with)


:FlameSuitOn:

 

[spyder3]

I don't think this was about him as a President or his politics(he made clinton look like an alter boy:roflblack. It was about a life changing event that is VERY rare in this country, and thankfully so.

 

[Bob Denman]

I wasn't born yet

But I don't like all the hype about him. Personally I think he sucked as a president.
I'm probably in the minority, but I find this JFK adoration amazing.
He should have never been president, the mob rigged the voting. Then he double crossed them after he was in office.
He was a drug addict.
He whored around the White House and outside it too.
He made the Cuban Missle Crisis even more of a crisis, it is believed he delayed his agreement with Russia just to puff himself up.
So, kind of like today, more or less.
(that was a quote I agree with)

But :shocked:... What do you REALLY think???

Regardles of his Politics; it was a pretty lousy thing to do to the guy...

 

[StanProff]

Wood working shop in JR high school. Seems like time stood still that day. Very clear memory of that day.

 

[cuznjohn]

snoopy

I wasn't born yet

But I don't like all the hype about him. Personally I think he sucked as a president.

I'm probably in the minority, but I find this JFK adoration amazing.


He should have never been president, the mob rigged the voting. Then he double crossed them after he was in office.


He was a drug addict.


He whored around the White House and outside it too.


He made the Cuban Missle Crisis even more of a crisis, it is believed he delayed his agreement with Russia just to puff himself up.


So, kind of like today, more or less.


(that was a quote I agree with)


:FlameSuitOn:

really snoop you should never hold feeling back. let the out pal, some day all that pent up frustration is going to catch up with you. speak what you feel lol

 

[Bob Denman]

Did you notice the first line of his post...
"I wasn't born yet "

It kind of makes me wonder where his opinion came from? :dontknow:

 

[ARtraveler]

really snoop you should never hold feeling back. let the out pal, some day all that pent up frustration is going to catch up with you. speak what you feel lol

I was not going to jump in with my claws here--but I like what you are saying John. :thumbup:

 

[SNOOPY]

Did you notice the first line of his post...
"I wasn't born yet "

It kind of makes me wonder where his opinion came from? :dontknow:

I was was good at history. :roflblack:

 

[Bob Denman]

:thumbup: Just curious... :thumbup:

Although I would have SWORE, that you've spent too much time talking with MY Dad!

I'll admit this; but you have to take it from the perspective of a DEVOUT Conservative Republican...
My Dad's birthday is November 22nd also. He said that this event was the best present that he ever received... :shocked: nojoke

 

[SNOOPY]

:thumbup: Just curious... :thumbup:

Although I would have SWORE, that you've spent too much time talking with MY Dad!

I'll admit this; but you have to take it from the perspective of a DEVOUT Conservative Republican...
My Dad's birthday is November 22nd also. He said that this event was the best present that he ever received... :shocked: nojoke

Mine is today, a year and a day after the event.

 

[Bob Denman]

:congrats:

 

[bruiser]

You're just a pup. Happy Birthday.

 

[SNOOPY]

Lol

thanks, I think. Lol

 

[ARtraveler]

Lol

thanks, I think. Lol

The Happy Birthdays are sincere. Including mine. :yes:

 

[Tanshanomi]

As I said, I was 5 months old when Kennedy was shot. Thus, I grew up during the post-assassination adulation, when it seemed as though every other new public school was named after him, and not even the 400-year-old name of Cape Canaveral was safe from the "camelot-ization" of his memory. Growing up in a Catholic family, I remember a picture of him always hanging in our family room. I was astronaut-crazy, and all my heroes worked at Kennedy Space Center. In second grade, My parents gave me the children's book Meet John F. Kennedy. It was a wholly favorable profile of him ("fawning" would probably be a better term). I read it over and over.



I was sincerely disheartened later in life when I learned the truth about his philandering and other less idyllic qualities, personally and a statesman. I realized the cute story the book told about JFK walking so fast his Secret Service detail would lose him on the street really described him deliberately ditching his SS detail in order engage in provocative pursuits he'd rather keep secret. I felt a little duped and cheated by the society I grew up in. It made me wonder why there was such a great pendulum swing -- first to fervently honoring him, then to gleefully discrediting him -- and why criticizing him was so verboten for so long, if there were so many in the country who genuinely despised him.

I suppose it would have felt ghoulish or insensitive, or even seditious. I am no fan of our current president, but that's purely a political dislike. If he was (God forbid) assassinated and society as a whole started lionizing him, I would have a hard time speaking up, because I wouldn't want anybody to think I was pleased by or even condoned such a horrible act.

 

[Bob Denman]

There's an old saying: "Love the sinner; hate the sin."
I've had several friends over the years, whose "antics" kept it fresh in my mind.

 

[SNOOPY]

I'm not looking for assassination, impeachment is fine to me. :thumbup:





:shocked: