I porbably would have ranked Kennedy lower had he lived longer... He fell for the old appease-the-right with his war in Vietnam... Seems the Dems are always falling for that same old bull... Maybe now that thr right has been reduced to Blowhard Cheney and Blowhard Limbaugh the Dems won't feel it necessary to crank up and new wars to entertain the right...

But Kennedy was headed right where LBJ ended up and that was an anguished, embattled and bitter washed up politican... Vietnam took a heavy toll on LBJ... That toll would have been Kennedy's to bare and would have eaten him up...

I do find it interesting that som many folks rank Ike so high... All he did was be at the right place at the right time... The 50's was a amgical decade of optimism and economig growth as a natural byproduct of WW II... And alot of us were paying little league in the 50's and have fond memories of those times... Ike doesn't get credit other than he didn't get in the way of a decade that purdy much fueled its ownself...

B~