Obama is No JFK from Planck's Constant

I am no fan of JFK, but will we ever again have a Democrat who can say this: "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."

When Obama was running for President, the blogosphere was aglow with eulogies comparing him to JFK ¹.

So lately we see how Obama supports our friends, how he opposes our foes. By treating Israel like a pariah, he has encouraged the enemies of Israel to acts of provocation as we recently witnessed with Turkey sticking a finger in Israel's eye.

By treating Iran with respect and honor, we have encouraged the madman running that country to expand his nuclear program even more ².

In a 1962 speech given at Rice University in Houston, Texas, President John F. Kennedy promised that the US would pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship in its commitment to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Last January, our feeble-minded idiot President decided we should end funding for voyages to the moon and Mars, essentially declaring:

We choose not to go to the moon or Mars in this decade or any other, because it's not easy, because it's too hard, because that challenge is one that we are unwilling to accept, one we are willing to postpone, and one which we intend to lose as well as others, too.

Barack Hussein Obama - you are no JFK. Not even effin close.

Related: I do not like Sen. Robert Menendez. I despise his liberal policies.

However...

Contrary to most Liberals who are anti-Israel, he does get it right in this YouTube video acknowledging Israel's History:

Notes

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Slate Magazine, How Obama is like JFK
But another clue may lie in the presidential bid of a figure Obama's devotees love to invoke: John F. Kennedy.
When answering the charge that the Illinois senator lacks the record of achievement befitting a White House aspirant, Obama's backers often stack him next to JFK. Obama is 44, they note, older than JFK was when he ran. Skeptics derided JFK, as they now do Obama, as callow and ill-versed in substantive issues. And yet Obama, similar to JFK, manages to inspire people with sex appeal, cerebral cool, and a message of generational change. Like all historical analogies, this one has limits: JFK had logged 14 years in Congress when he became president, compared with the four Obama will have by 2008. For all these surface similarities, however, the most important aspect of Kennedy's campaign mirrored in Obama's may be the way that JFK handled his Catholicism. In the 1960 campaign, Kennedy turned his religion from a liability into an asset. Obama seems to be doing the same thing with his race.

Times Online, Obama, like JFK, has the wind behind him
Obama is the Kennedy of a new generation. I have strong personal memories of the Kennedy election in 1960 that took a Roman Catholic to the White House for the first time. As early as January and February of this year, starting before Super Tuesday on February 5, I was discussing the comparison between the Obama and Kennedy campaigns.

Associated Content, Is Barack Obama the Second Coming of John F. Kennedy?
The Democrats have been yearning for the return of Camelot, which is to say that mystical, half remembered epic that was the thousand days of the John F. Kennedy Presidency since they put the slain martyr into the ground at Arlington.
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So it shouldn't be surprising when Caroline Kennedy opined the following:

"Over the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama."

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Washington Post, 30 Nov 2009, Ahmadinejad vows dramatic expansion of Iran's nuclear program
The plan to build 10 new enrichment sites was announced Sunday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The move, which was broadly condemned in Europe, would constitute a dramatic expansion of Iran's nuclear program and would inevitably fuel fears that Iran is attempting to produce a nuclear weapon.

A tip tip of the turban Hat Tip to Real Americans Defend Israel for the Menedez video.