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Should President John Kennedy be retroactively condemned for the embargo against Cuba

Should President Kennedy be condemned for the embargos against Cuba

  • Yes, people should know the Embargos were by Democrat Prez. Kennedy

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • No, this could damage Democrat JFK as heroic and perfect

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, no politician should ever be held to public scrutiny

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, Tea Party Republicans did it

    Votes: 4 57.1%
  • Total voters
    7
Re: Should President John Kennedy be retroactively condemned for the embargo against

Considering Kennedy would be over 97, I think the only thing he'd be condemning is the food at the old folks' home or the quality of the soil around his grave.
 
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joko104 said:
It's not about President Kennedy's feelings. It is about people knowing true history including partisan history.

Should it be agreed to never mention Watergate, who the President was or his party affiliation because Nixon is dead? People post about Reagan often. He's dead. All the "founding fathers" are dead. Does history end as each person of it dies?

This is a valid issue. JFK is a past Democratic President oft held out to be one the Democratic Party's best of all times. Yet most Americans and those on the forum think is policy on Cuba was stupid, evil and worse than pointless. As people discuss this, shouldn't it be mentioned who put it in place? NOT ONCE I have seen or read anything saying this was started by President Kennedy or why. Just the assertion it was a failed horrible policy as if t just magically happened some unknown way - even some blaming in the CIA - which is false. It was Democratic President John F. Kennedy, not the CIA.
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LOL Equating a USSR dominated Cuba during the cold war with the situation in this millennium is comical. Castro chose Russia after he was rebuffed by the Americans for help in overthrowing Batista. We had no choice then, we lost Cuba and an embargo was all we could do to save face. Things have been very different for a long, long time though. The world has changed in 50 years in case you haven't noticed. No country has endured a US embargo as long as little Cuba. It's time for it to come home. It's leaders are very old and they will pass the torch to us if we play our cards right.
 
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Re: Should President John Kennedy be retroactively condemned for the embargo against

Μολὼν λαβέ;1064112872 said:
What about the embargo on Russia? Russia hasn't been hostile to the US, have they?

Isn't that hurting innocent Russians? Their economy is in the tank.

Doesn't President Obama have any, *wink, wink,* flexibility left he spoke about to the Russian president?
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A US President should try to protect all free nations from belligerent neighbors. Putin knows what he has to do if he wants those sanctions lifted..mind his own business. Putin is hurting his own people by his actions and they should know it.
 
Re: Should President John Kennedy be retroactively condemned for the embargo against

Cephus said:
What's the point? Why bother condemning someone who is dead and wouldn't care?
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JFK wouldn't care much what the members of this forum had to say if they were alive either... :p
 
Re: Should President John Kennedy be retroactively condemned for the embargo against

What President Kennedy should be condemned for is his support of public sector unions.
 
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