General Discussion

...better served by reading something useful.

My contempt for the Kennedy family, based on my admiration for Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, originates with my contempt for the family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, an antisemite who had a certain alleged admiration for Hitler, who was ambassador to Britain during the blitz advised the Government to not aid Britain. (Roosevelt sent Kennedy to Britain to get him out of the country for his third term run, fearful he would endorse Wendell Wilkie and thus cause problems with his the Irish vote. He opened indirect channels to Churchill via Harry Hopkins.)

The big lie that's been flying around among conspiracy theorists is that JFK was assassinated because he was a liberal. He may have paid lip service to that label, but he was, again, a cold warrior of the worst sort. At the time the country may have wanted a cold warrior but nonetheless it was a very dangerous and stupid game.

I note that the man JFK put in the role of Attorney General, his less than qualified brother Bobby, father of the brain worm infected loon killing people with paranoid antiscience rhetoric, served as council to witch hunter Joesph McCarthy during those outrageous hearings. He served with Roy Cohn in that role, Cohn having been a mentor to the orange Pedophile now destroying our country. The only Democratic Senator to not vote to censure McCarthy, a close family friend of the Kennedys, was JFK, who doged the vote by getting himself admitted to a hospital for back pain. McCarthy was godfather to one of Bobby Kennedy's daughters and in fact dated one of Bobby Kennedy's sisters.

JFK was no liberal, just as his father claimed. He is vastly overrated and was actually not qualified to shine LBJs shoes. LBJ was a flawed man, no doubt, but he, not Kennedy, was truly liberal in many ways, at considerable political risk, coming from the South, but unfortunately he was stuck with the Kennedy team as President.

Had he come to office by a better route, with a better team, he would have done a better job.