PubliusInfinitum
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why is jfk never on this list......
but worst i lived through....carter......
biggest bonehead manuver.....nixion and clinton getting caught......
We only get 10 choices and I didn't think anyone would pick Kennedy as the worst in the last 100.
If one puts Reagan there and not Kennedy it shows an inherent bias by the orginal poster of the thread.
Granted, Kennedy had somewhat minimal actual legislative impact vs a two termer, but people so often forget that his polling numbers were in decline just prior to his death - he was not nearly so admired as people wish to believe. His death secured his place in America because of the tragedy of that event, and the marked downturn in American society in general - the remainder of the 60's were quite tumultous.
That being said, Kennedy was a military Hawk, and reduced taxes which set up the economic growth of the mid to late 1960s, so he showed potential.
Lastly, the Democrat Party of Kennedy is not the Democrat Party of today. I am convinced Kennedy would be quite shocked at the remnants of his party. By today's Democrat standards, Kennedy would be a conservative Democrat or a moderate Republican - certainly nothing like Obama's apparent agenda...
The closest Democrat politician alive today comparable to Jack Kennedy is Zell Miller... Kennedy was a rabid anti-Communist and would have absolutely no ideological kinship with the socialists running the Democrat Party today.