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Larry Elder
JFK: Democrats' Role Model?
Larry Elder 9/4/2008
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The John F. Kennedy legacy came up repeatedly during the Democratic National Convention. But today, would JFK even be a Democrat?

Kennedy supported, in today's lexicon, a George W. Bush-like "belligerent" approach to fighting the Cold War, and told CBS' Walter Cronkite it would be "a great mistake" to withdraw the American presence from Vietnam. In his 1961 inaugural speech, Kennedy said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

How would such a man feel about fighting today's global peril — Islamofascism?

Barack Obama likes to point to the 1961 Kennedy-Khrushchev summit to support his desire for meetings "without preconditions" with enemies such as Iran and North Korea.

But Kennedy's secretary of State, Dean Rusk, urged against such a non-conditions-based summit. And later, Kennedy called the summit meeting the "roughest thing in my life. (Khrushchev) just beat the hell out of me. I've got a terrible problem if he thinks I'm inexperienced and have
no guts." Indeed, Khrushchev thought Kennedy a weak amateur. Following the summit, Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and placed missiles in Cuba, an action that led the world to the brink of nuclear conflict.

Kennedy believed in cutting taxes — deeply and dramatically. Before Kennedy's tax cuts, the top marginal tax rate stood at over 90 percent, and Kennedy — albeit after his assassination — got it reduced to 70 percent, a much greater percentage reduction than did Bush. Kennedy, in a 1962 speech before the Economic Club of New York said, "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. The experience of a number of European countries and Japan have borne this out. This country's own experience with tax reduction in 1954 has borne this out. And the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget, and tax reduction can pave the way to that employment. The purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy, which can bring a budget surplus."

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Posted By: John Handforth  on Friday, September 05, 2008

Excellent column, Larry...

Harry Truman wouldn't have liked Obama, either.


Posted By: jack sprat  on Saturday, September 06, 2008

Larry

Neither would the Robamabots like the "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country", the pale image of the "bots" is now a tarnished "what's in it for me", sadly they now even tout the "color over character", what a topsy-turvey world we have where the perverse and profane are made the image of the "prefered."


Posted By: norm kolody  on Sunday, September 07, 2008

Jfk would be a democrat he would not use the use The Constitution like toilet paper.Social programs would be fully funded and we would have health care not 45 million uninsured.Financial fraud wouldnt happen JFK knew rich ppl are greedy.Our nation would be better off not being run by a losing contestant from Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.


Posted By: jack sprat  on Sunday, September 07, 2008

Larry, you are spot on and have pegged the accurate misinterpretation of the singular most successful democratic president, by today’s socialist party, out side Roosevelt's sad exercise in socialism. He would have gone after the Islamic fascists as he did the Communists that he confronted from Germany’s Berlin Wall to Viet Nam, to Cuba’s missile crisis. JFK was and would be against the killing of the unborn, had the FBI's "pretty man in the tight blue dress" wire tap MLK, and believed that the ability of citizen's of America to look out for them selves best.

He was against quotas and artificial success for any group, race, religion, or national origin. Kennedy was not a "big government" Democrat, and there was no "universal health care" under his short and tragic administrations.

Funded the invasion of Cuba, by "free" Cubanos, and sent “military advisors into Viet Nam. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.


Posted By: John Handforth  on Tuesday, September 09, 2008

I served under Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.

I can't say much about Eisenhower because I was young and had no rank insignia on my sleeve or on my collar at the time.  The only thing that I can say for sure is that Eisenhower sent the first fifty military advisors into Viet Nam.

It was Kennedy who increased the force many times over and authorized their participation in combat.  We were no longer advisors.

When Johnson took over, all hell broke loose.  He opened the floodgfates and solved the unemployment and slow economy problems at home.  With so many men going into the military, there were less people unemployed.  When you factor in the jobs created to make war supplies, it was gravy train time.

I would like to know what would've happened to this Country if Kennedy had not been assassinated. Would we have gone whole hog in Southeast Asia?  Would we have had the "Great Society?"

One thing I do know... We may have no society if we elect Obama this November.


Posted By: LARRY E LUDEMAN  on Thursday, September 18, 2008

lARRY SEND YOUR COLUMN TO OBAMA EVERY DAY EMAIL.No NO DONT DO THAT HE COULD GET SMART AND WIN.lARRY YOU SAY IT THE WAY IT IS.GREAT JOB.

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