With Pres Skittles gone, that would leave Biden. I'm no sure that's the lesser of 2 evils.
Just give Biden a binky and a blanket and he'll be completely occupied. Biden is not so much the ideologue that Oblowme is, nor is he as ruthless. Now I'm not saying he's not an ideologue nor is he ruthless, just many degrees less than our 'smartest man in the room' precedent. Biden could be much more easily controlled by Congress than our brash and narcissistic President Hissy Fit.
Do you recall what happened when John Kennedy the mediocre President had half his head blown away in front of a crowd and cameras?
He became Saint John the Martyr President. Instead of dying the expected quick death, his proposal to go to the moon became a national goal. Instead of running for and possibly losing reelection his death and martyrdom put LBJ the incompetent control freak in the Oval Office.
Okay, to take your points one at a time.
Yes, I do remember Kennedy's death and the adulation his martyrdom engendered. Shyt happens. What Kennedy did in the war was, while not all good and saintly (but who's asking for that?; he was in combat in the front lines of the Pacific Theater), but damn, still a hell of a story of survival. I'd take Kennedy today in a heartbeat over King Putz. Kennedy was elected through the corruption of his father and Chicago unions. But while the elder Kennedy was corrupt as hell, John didn't seem so beholden to them nor strongly endorse their work as some sort of societal godly aspiration as does our President No Right To Work. Kennedy got taken by the shorthairs by Krushchev in their first encounter (I want to say in Vienna, don't know why). He was a weak foreign policy president. But he was anti-commie, pro-business, pro-lower taxes and anti-union corruption. Now you've made me cry, just thinking about it.
As for the space race, I'm not sure why the hostility to Kennedy's national challenge. Sputnik ws already established before his presidency. The Cold War was in effect, with the Soviets looking for any propaganda victory over the evil West. While Kennedy's challenge could have been a throwaway line (not saying it was), but whatever it was, it was most certainly not a throwaway line like we need to nationalize health care. The Space Program was one of the few things America did well and for which we earned genuine worldwide respect. Any country that can put a man on the moon and bring him back alive can put an explosive right down someone's throat here on earth. So not only was the Space Program political with the Soviets, it was political with the rest of the petty tyrants and tin pot dictators of the world, too. On top of that, the 'stuff' we now have thanks to that race to the moon is astounding and far too numerous to mention, so I'll just say
velcro. I see nothing wrong with Kennedy's challenge, even not given the Cold War context. It was a great national challenge, a positive national challenge, a hopeful national challenge. That is certainly better than funemployment, food stamps and welfare being trumpeted as great lifestyle choices. I'm not a Kennedy fan because he was a weak president but, like him or hate him, he was a man. He was just the sort of man the schools now actively seek to strangle in the crib (so to speak) and assimilate into the PC feel good world of by rote group think.
But you can be damn sure that after Kennedy was killed, Krushchev never beat him in negotiations again.
Yes, LBJ ascended to the Presidency upon JFK's death. I don't think JFK endorsed that decision. However, that being said, the American people re-elected LBJ, reelected The Great Society, just as we have reelected Hope and Che-nge. I can't blame the way Johnson and Nixon handled Vietnam on Kennedy. Besides, it was Ike who got us involved in Vietnam. Kennedy decided to go along with the anti-communist program that was Vietnam. Compare that to Owebama, cutting and running from every war except the one he's waging against America and her people. Boy howdy is he a hawk when it comes to that war.
Imagine if you will what the radical insane left would do with Zero to hold up as a martyred saint in their drive to seize control of the rest of the government and destroy not just the Tea Party but conservatives in general. You think they are bad now?
Waiting for the train to pull into the station, are we? Things are bad now, and they are only going to get worse -- with Zero alive
or dead. I'd prefer dead, thankyouverymuch.
You and warpmine might be willing to risk it. Not me.
It only takes one side to wage war (see: The 1400 year history of the muslim Jihadi War; sometime we fight that war, right now we're not). The other side either buries their heads in the sand and end up dying or they fight back and possibly end up dead, but also possibly victorious. One way, you die on your knees, slaves of the government, the 'it can't happen here' mindset. The other way you die a free man fighting for victory of the individual over the state, the very principle upon which this Country was founded. I know which option gets my vote.
