JFK question?....I keep hearing about Obama being the next JFK?

Question

What exactly did JFK do for this country?

Answer 1

You should get 10,000 points cause your right he did nothing!

Answer 2

At the time he was elected he gave the Country a new sense of hope.....a sense of something new and different.

He didn't serve long enough to put his plan into effect.......sadly.

Answer 3

A lot more than who he's sadly being compared to!

Answer 4

I think the next Malcolm X is what you mean.

Answer 5

Yes, and McCain is sort of like Nixon circa 1960.

Answer 6

it's just people's way of predicting that he'll be assassinated.

Answer 7

He rallied us into the space program silly....

Answer 8

got us in space and worked towards the civil rights act.

oh yeah and that blunder the bay of pigs.....that was kinda stupid.....but overall he was pretty good

he didnt get to sign the act of course tho.......

and its an ignorant way of saying obama will get assasinated

Answer 9

The Bay of Pigs.

Answer 10

There is a wealth of information on the internet. If you honestly don't know about JFK, look it up. You will get a plethora of information.

Answer 11

All the Kennedys supported civil rights and equality. Obama and JFK don't belong in the same sentence. Kennedy was an American, Obama is a sham.

Answer 12

Well, he avoided nuclear war with the Soviet Union, for one.  You know, total planetary annihilation.

Answer 13

JFK was the youngest president elected and if Obama is elected he will be the youngest.  Other than that I don't see any other correlation.

Answer 14

Well, although he was womanizing, rich, elitist, he did face down the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis. But that was probably due to his World War Two mentality and his experience as a combat skipper of a PT boat. You see, people from his generation understood that there is no such thing as 'second place' in a war.

While he got us terribly entangled in Vietnam, if he had not been assassinated, we might have won in Vietnam (both politically as well as militarily) instead of surrendering to public opinion (because we never lost on the battlefield).

Now, he did blow the "bay of Pigs', but nobody gets it all right.

With that said, Obama wouldn't equal a pimple on JFK's back side. While Senator Obama is a fantastic speaker, and probably a good man, John Kennedy he is not.

Answer 15

Nothing.

Answer 16

Avoided World War 3 with his handling of the Cuban missile crisis.  We now know that the Soviet Union had set orders to initiate a first strike against the USA if we invaded Cuba during the crisis.  Which is exactly what most of the cabinet was advising him to do.  Kennedy instead took the initiative and instead ordered a blockade of Cuba.