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Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« on: March 02, 2017, 06:06:21 pm »
 By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 2, 2017

Former President Barack Obama was named Thursday as the winner of the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said Mr. Obama is being honored “for his enduring commitment to democratic ideals and elevating the standard of political courage in a new century.”

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present Mr. Obama with the award on May 7 in Boston.

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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2017, 06:09:11 pm »
Nice bookends. 1st The Nobel Piss Prize in General Stupidity, Corruption and Bad Judgment and now this.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2017, 06:20:14 pm »
It's somewhat fitting, if only because JFK's book Profiles In Courage was ghostwritten just as was Obama's Dreams From My Father.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2017, 06:38:49 pm »
Maybe, but JFK was so far to the right of Obama, he could have been Goldwater.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2017, 06:40:47 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 02, 2017, 06:38:49 pm
Maybe, but JFK was so far to the right of Obama, he could have been Goldwater.

JFK is a big reason our immigration system is as f'd up as it is today.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2017, 06:48:06 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on March 02, 2017, 06:40:47 pm
JFK is a big reason our immigration system is as f'd up as it is today.
Yep. Eisenhower had handled things with "Operation Wetback". That's just one of a host of things that can be laid at his feet, from Cuba to Vietnam. LBJ made most of that worse, when he could. I'm not saying JFK was anywhere close to the POTUS I think Goldwater would have been, but JFK was at least somewhat pro USA compared to Obama.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2017, 06:51:47 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on March 02, 2017, 06:40:47 pm
JFK is a big reason our immigration system is as f'd up as it is today.
I would assign considerably more blame to JFK's little brother Ted, who heavily promoted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (the Hart–Celler Act), which was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson.  During debate on the Senate floor, Senator Kennedy, speaking of the effects of the act, said, "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset".

I guess he figured that we'll drive off that bridge when we come to it.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2017, 06:58:33 pm »
Probably the most obnoxious liberal award ever. Doing liberals things is "courage"... as if society and the media doesn't already have your back.
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Re: Obama to receive JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2017, 07:03:00 pm »

Courage, indeed.
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