JFK

"Bob Fry" wrote:
JFK simply didn't get much done. But he was studly and that's what
counts in the world.

Exactly.

Presidents are elected on TV appeal, and JFK was prettier than Nixon. He
was a dangerous playboy with a penchant for international mischief, but
he had sex appeal that America couldn't resist - still can't. Reagan
was the quintessential TV president, revered now because he had the luck
to be sitting in the big chair when Soviet communism finally rotted to
pieces, even though his presidency was marked by colossal deficits, the
S&L debacle and sleazy dealings with scum in Iran and Central America.
But boy, he sure could say "God bless America" on TV like no one else!
We loved it!

Clinton and Bush? Same thing: they won because they were cuter on the
tube than their opponents.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Bob Fry wrote:

JFK simply didn't get much done. But he was studly and that's what
counts in the world.

He was instrumental in preventing World War III. He started the
Vietnam War. He started the space program. If this doesn't count as
"getting much done", then I don't know what does.

Jim Rosinski
N3825Q

"Michael 182" wrote in message
news:FK8tb.146868$mZ5.1002812@attbi_s54...
What does infidelity have to do with his legacy? Do you disdain Franklin
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower as well?

Yeah, the first two.

In fact, if you run
down the founding fathers John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and
Alexander Hamilton have all been accused of being adulterers. Who cares?

Different context in those days when life expectancy of a woman was often in
her 20's.

"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote:

I've never understood the reverence for JFK, his infidelity made Clinton
look like a abstinent monk.

Yeah, but he never committed perjury about it, which is what got Clinton
impeached.

George Patterson
If you're not part of the solution, you can make a lot of money prolonging
the problem.

He was never called on to commit perjury about it.

mike regish

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...


"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote:

I've never understood the reverence for JFK, his infidelity made Clinton
look like a abstinent monk.

Yeah, but he never committed perjury about it, which is what got Clinton
impeached.

George Patterson
If you're not part of the solution, you can make a lot of money
prolonging
the problem.

"Tony Cox" wrote in message .net...

I've harbored a simmering resentment of the Kennedy clan ever
since, and now vote against them and their Democrat friends
whenever I get the chance. Revenge is sweet.

Watch out or we'll send the Daleks after you.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message om...
"Tony Cox" wrote in message .net...

I've harbored a simmering resentment of the Kennedy clan ever
since, and now vote against them and their Democrat friends
whenever I get the chance. Revenge is sweet.

Watch out or we'll send the Daleks after you.


exterminate!! ... exterminate!!


:-)

g_a

40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at
20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150
out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on
frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas
and was dead.

May he rest in peace.

Big John

And the sad historical footnote is that we still don't know who really did
it.

"Big John" wrote in message
...

40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at
20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150
out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on
frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas
and was dead.

May he rest in peace.


Today is November 14, 2003. JFK was shot and killed on November 22, 1963.

Today is November 14, 2003. JFK was shot and killed on November 22, 1963.

Uh-oh; you blew his cover. Big John was actually flying one of those
experimental warp-drive F-89Js -- the kind with hyper-drive. He hit a worm
hole, and messed up his space/time reference. For HIM it happened on the
14th.

Prolly why they never continued the testing program beyond the prototype...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"