If someone held JFK's political views today

[DougMD]

Would they not be called a right wing conservative?

[Arthur P]

Not unless you're calling Obama a right wing conservative.

Obama's income tax rate for the top 5% is about 39%. Under Kennedy the top tax rate was 90%, which is what it was under Eisenhower. It had come down to 70% under Nixon. So, I guess that makes Eisenhower and Nixon tax and spend liberals and Obama a right wing conservative.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213

I would say LBJ and bama are simular. Bama wants to make his own Great Society I guess.

[CalHunter]

Many of JFK's other political viewpoints were conservative though.

[DougMD]

If it were Obama, Cuba would have kept the nukes. Not to say he wouldn't have asked Russia nicely to take them out of there though!

[younggun308]

I do not believe that JFK was a conservative, his economic beliefs aren't conservative,but his sense of duty to country isvery much a McCain view, IMO, but besides thatone of the only things I find redemptive about his Presidency is that he was the last President to receive the respect previous Presidents had, and was the President who helped end the segregation, with others doing their part as well.

[BigTiny]

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[rifle_man]

ORIGINAL: Arthur P

Not unless you're calling Obama a right wing conservative.

Obama's income tax rate for the top 5% is about 39%. Under Kennedy the top tax rate was 90%, which is what it was under Eisenhower. It had come down to 70% under Nixon. So, I guess that makes Eisenhower and Nixon tax and spend liberals and Obama a right wing conservative.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213

Know Obama is 100% left wing Liberal. There is not one part of him that someone could call conservative. There were parts of JFK that could be called Conservative now day"™s.
Obama is more left wing than even Teddy K and JFK put together.