In its day, JFK's New Frontier plan was more radical than anything Obama proposed, or Clinton, or Hillary Clinton.
Maybe more than Bill Clinton, but not even close to what Obama has proposed. Not even in the ballpark. And with Hillary - well - none of us knows since she's never been elected and she lies all the time (so there is no way to say what she will really do).
It is what it is Carb. No sense in trying to pretend that JFK was further left of Obama. You party has become seriously radicalized. Either embrace it/own it or, if you are embarrassed by that reality, leave it and start a new one.
Pay attention. JFK's agenda was a much more leftward shift from the status quo than is anything Obama has ever proposed.
Pay attention. In 1961, there was no Medicare, there was no Medicaid. There was no Civil Rights Act. There was no Voting Rights Act. There was no War on Poverty.
That was the agenda of JFK; it was carried out by LBJ after JFK's assassination. Nothing Obama has tried to do or proposed doing comes anywhere close to the magnitude of the JFK/LBJ liberal agenda.
More proof? The modern American conservative is STILL bitching about the JFK agenda.
The modern sane person will be "bitching" about the Obama agenda (from which we will
never recover) for hundreds of years.
Everything you just said about JFK is nonsense. FDR's "Raw Deal" policies were a thousand times more "radical". He implemented Social Security, Welfare, etc. You
want JFK to look radical so that your party doesn't look as radicalized now as it actually is.
By the way - conservatives (as usual) were proven 100% right on Medicare and Medicaid. They said it was unsustainable and it is. Even Obama himself and his cronies went around screaming that the government couldn't afford Medicare and Medicaid and hence the reason why Obamacare was needed (and 15 years from now, libtards will tell us we can't afford Obamacare and that government-controlled healthcare is needed - it's a vicious cycle of stupidity with that side of the aisle).