Right place, right time, right man

When the Western world has been in crisis, we always seem to find the right figure to lead us to victory or out of danger. Wellington, Churchill, and Roosevelt come to mind.

With this thought in mind, a couple of things stick out:

1. I've noticed a strong tendency by the right to denigrate JFK, suggesting that he was a foreign policy disaster, and that Khruschev had him by the short and curlies. And the reason they're doing it is because of Barack Osama. But nothing could be further from the truth. Kennedy was masterful with the Berlin crisis, given that there was nothing short of war he could do to resolve the problem, and his handling of the Cuban Missile crisis saved us from thermonuclear war. Don't think that people like Curtis LeMay didn't want to go and bomb the crap out of the Soviets. They did, and badly. Kennedy finally managed to get control and reign in the CIA and other organizations dedicated to their own twisted version of patriotism. His assassination led directly to the escalation of the Vietnam conflict.
2. We have a looming crisis in this country, financially, morally, etc... Barack might be the only person capable of fixing what's broken, and restoring America's place in the world.