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They assassinated JFK, and he was a dumbass. The Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, billions of dollars wasted on lunar missions...

The Moon Mission wasn't about the pursuit of scientific knowledge. It was about waving the American dick in the world's face. The Vietnam War and the Bay of Pigs were absolute failures. At best, you can argue that the reasoning behind his three greatest failures can be attributed to the stupidity of his era (just as you can argue that Bush's policies of economic deregulation and wasteful wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were the product of his times), but Kennedy was monumentally incompetent in running the country, leading to huge wastes in money, manpower and life. He's down there with Dub as far as the two dumbest and crappiest presidents of all time.

Aaaaah, so because he's popular he was a good president? You know, in Russia, Stalin is very popular nowadays, and the history books used in Russian colleges and high schools all say that he was a great leader, second only to Putin. Basically, the Cold War produced many incompetent leaders that, in the spirit of nationalism, are remembered fondly for all the wrong reasons. Kennedy, like Stalin, made people feel good about their respective countries despite the horrible death and damage they inflicted upon the world.

Kennedy was a political idealogue, saying, "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty," of course defining "liberty" as "do shit the American way, or we'll drop chemical weapons all over your country." Five million people died in the Vietnam War. That's genocide.

He began the genocide leading to the death of 5 to 10 million people. Compared to most American presidents, he was one of the worst. Basically, he's about twice as genocidal as George W. Bush.