JFK sent troops to enforce civil rights laws

[Doctor_J]

He also federalized National Guard troops to help. Why do the president and his AG allow voter suppression to go unchecked - pretend they don't even know it's happening? WTF is wrong with them?

[Wilms]

1. JFK did lots of stuff like that.

And look where it got him.

:(

[SharonAnn]

14. Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to enforce Civil Rights Laws, too.

I think it may have been the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Not sure about that, though. But I do remember the pictures in the newspaper in 1957, I think.

[david13]

16. Eisenhower was one of the first who wanted the military integrated.

And worked toward it. And they fought it tooth and nail.
I do also remember him sending the troops into Little Rock, 1957.
dc

[pscot]

2. Is this a generic observation

or do you have something specific in mind? Just asking.

[Doctor_J]

3. I guess generic

Although this is a specific federal crime that is being allowed to be committed in many jurisdictions

[johnaries]

4. It's not up to them, it's up to us. We are the ones who need to fight

election fraud.

[Doctor_J]

7. By doing what?

If the AG won't enforce the law, what do you think we can do?

[BuelahWitch]

17. And be ignored by the MSM?

Who do the bidding of their rich Republican masters? Oh, we might get a bone, Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow might cover it, but that's more or less singing to the choir.

[Never Stop Dancin]

5. Does anyone else here think

that JFK is way overrated kind of like Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin -- (people who are only glorified because they died young)

[H2O Man]

6. gross

[eilen]

9. He did some good stuff

Established the Peace Corps, NASA, the first nuclear test ban treaty and started Civil Rights legislation. That and facing down the Russians in Cuban Missile Crisis. But unimpressive in execution of Bay of Pigs. Relative to other presidents, good but not necessarily outstanding. He made the country feel optimistic, that a better world was possible I guess. He had great potential but was killed before the balance of his abilities were truly realized. He would never have survived in today's political climate but would have likely lived.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. No on JFK. I think he gets pretty much the realistic recognition he deserves.

Cobain, hell yeah. Joplin doesn't get half the recognition she deserves.

[L0oniX]

15. +1

[alp227]

8. so did Eisenhower for that high school in Arkansas n/t

[defendandprotect]

10. Corporate money, I would guess ... but "Silence is also an Answer" ....

and we certainly know they aren't blind --

trained in law --

[saras]

12. Funny how the OP's question got lost...

Back to this: "Why do the president and his AG allow voter suppression to go unchecked - pretend they don't even know it's happening? WTF is wrong with them?"

[Doctor_J]

13. The "President can't do anything" brigade lives deep in De Nile

where thy spend a lot of time wringing their hands and waiting for the repukes to suddenly behave like humans.