I'm actually curious what you think, and since everyone else can spam up the fucking Red Room with useless shit, I can too. Anyways, you were saying....
JFK really was the man. Love him or hate him he was very effective (and a large part of that effectiveness was LBJ since LBJ was the guy who got it all passed in congress where the rubber meets the road) but JFK set the course and did it while plowing half of the hot chicks in America at the same time. Now that's a man's man.
Obama has basically flipped JFK "Ask not" quote in practice. Sad. Had JFK never uttered that quote and a GOPer said it today, it, along with wanting a man on the moon would be called right wing craziness by most media outlets.
You're just pissed 'cause you haven't gotten your "free stuff." No Republican living today would ever say it. Next.
I collected unemployment once for 4 months in 1993, so I guess I did get "free stuff". It was a big help at the time. Or do you mean something else? Had it never been said by JFK, I agree probably no one would have ever said it. I don't get what you mean by "next".
Are you kidding? Say "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask rather what you can do for your country" today, and a dozen shrieking right-wing pundits will accuse you of socialist indoctrination.
Which is very ironic, as the quote would be accurately reflect a nationalistic fascist society than a socialist one.
Kennedy is as much of a novelty President as Obama is accused of being. The guy got in on good looks, and his biggest claim to fame was the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Depending on which history books you look at, he wasn't even a supporter of civil rights--Johnson took care of that when he took office.
I'll grant that JFK certainly had some sense of vision. The Apollo program demonstrates that. But the progressivism of TR and Wilson, and FDR's liberalism and Second Bill of Rights had already infiltrated and rotted the Democratic Party.
I wasn't kidding. I see that quote as the opposite of socialism. I will have to agree to disagree. Thanks for your feedback.
No, but he was a Progressive and that mindset settled into the Dems largely through FDR and LBJ. We've been paying for it ever ince.
Your methods of making things better are, from what you support, communistic. You're sort of a walking stereotype for the left.
That depends entirely on the nature of the "better things" you're talking about ("better" is a very subjective opinion after all), and on the means employed in doing it. Fascists, conservatives, liberals, socialists, communists, libertarians, religious dictators, and just about everyone else who ever weilded political power are all "making things better," at least according to their own ideas of what that means. So "making things better" can be "totally communistic." It can also be totally something else.
You really have no idea what I support. Asyncritus is quite correct. Read his post and try real hard to understand it.