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Originally posted by MrVertigo
I know there can be a tendency to idealize JFK, but I think it's fair to say that a lot of things would have turned out different had he not been killed.
Originally posted by MrVertigo
The Fed, as has already been mentioned, and certainly Vietnam would have looked very, very different.
Originally posted by MrVertigo
I'm also quite fascinated by the reports that Kennedy approached Khrustjev with a suggestion for going to the moon together.
That might have ended the Cold War 20 years earlier and meant a totally different approach to the exploration of space.
Originally posted by MrVertigo
But maybe you would care to elaborate on why it was a good thing he got killed?
Why do you think he was such a bad president?
Originally posted by MrVertigo
Oh and in case you hadn't been keeping up, America is not all that rockin' right now. Mainly because too many people go around chanting "USA, USA" and "We Rock" instead of actually looking at the problems...
Originally posted by THX-1138
If JFK was a good thing then it turned out alright.
If JFK was a bad thing then it turned out alright.
I was born.
I'm here now.
I like the 4th of July.
I'm a winner!
Originally posted by THX-1138
Do you wish that America would simply lay down her arms and give in to your external desire?
So here you are insinuating that the Fed is somehow bad. I'll ask if not the Fed then who? If you don't like the Federal Reserve then what bank do you like? Or do you hate banking? Do you hate capitalism?
If JFK got rid of the Federal Reserve, then what would replace it? And what would this signal to Americans?