JFK

[ozzy72]

Well 45 years ago today JFK was sworn in as the youngest US president ever (and I believe the only Roman Catholic one?).

[Felix/FFDS]

Obviously, he was placed in power by Opus Dei, and eliminated by the Illuminati!

[WebbPA]

Kennedy was the youngest elected.  T. Roosevelt was the youngest to serve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

[bbstackerf]

In answer to part of your question, yes, he was and is still the only Roman Catholic ever elected President of the United States.


keni

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

Yeargh! Me and the Freemasons had something to say about that!

We introduced him to Mr. B. Ullet...!!!

Hahahahahah!!

"I'm not through with a woman until I've had her three ways"  - not very Catholic and we're through with you!! Hahahahahahhaa...



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[beefhole]

Yeah, many Americans still, to this day, have a very, very deep rooted resentment and dislike of Catholicism-not to mention the somehwat irrational fear that a Catholic president will be like the Pope controlling the US

[Felix/FFDS]

Yeah, many Americans still, to this day, have a very, very deep rooted resentment and dislike of Catholicism-not to mention the somehwat irrational fear that a Catholic president will be like the Pope controlling the US

That's the same argument used against JFK (er.. the assasinated one, not the recently defeated one), and he turned out to be one of the most cherished Presidents of recent (post WW2).  I think that while there may be some concern, for all practical purposes politicans follow their own con$cience$ and idea$.

Of course, the advantage of an RC candidate for President is that he can raise the dead to vote for him (Chicago 1960)  heeeheee.

[H]

Of course, the advantage of an RC candidate for President is that he can raise the dead to vote for him (Chicago 1960)  heeeheee.

Are you suggesting that's, in itself, the reason such a presidency is doomed to be short-lived?

[ozzy72]

Better to use voodoo and raise the dead than do a Mayor Daley

[Felix/FFDS]

Are you suggesting that's, in itself, the reason such a presidency is doomed to be short-lived?

Won't know until it's tried again, eh?

[RichieB16]

Yeah, many Americans still, to this day, have a very, very deep rooted resentment and dislike of Catholicism-not to mention the somehwat irrational fear that a Catholic president will be like the Pope controlling the US

I have never understood where that fear came from but it deffinately does exist.  Not only was JFK the only Roman Catholic President ever elected, he is one of only 3 to ever even have a major party nomination.

The only Roman Catholics to ever get a major party Presidential nomination were:

Al Smith (Democrat) - 1928: lost to Herbert Hoover
John F. Kennedy (Democrat) - 1960: won Presidency
John Kerry (Democrat) - 2004: lost to George W. Bush

Robert F. Kennedy would have certainly won the 1968 Democratic nomination had he not been assinated (and had a good chance to win the Presidency), but as it stands only 3 Catholics ever nominated by a major party.

[H]

I have never understood where that fear came from but it deffinately does exist.  Not only was JFK the only Roman Catholic President ever elected, he is one of only 3 to ever even have a major party nomination.

The only Roman Catholics to ever get a major party Presidential nomination were:

Al Smith (Democrat) - 1928: lost to Herbert Hoover
John F. Kennedy (Democrat) - 1960: won Presidency
John Kerry (Democrat) - 2004: lost to George W. Bush

Robert F. Kennedy would have certainly won the 1968 Democratic nomination had he not been assinated (and had a good chance to win the Presidency), but as it stands only 3 Catholics ever nominated by a major party.

Just to inform since I have no intent to begin a viability argument here, having been acquainted with both realms. It's undoubtedly due to some of the old protestant (many of whom were victims of the great Inquistion) counterclaim that Rome, the seat of the Catholic Church, is the condemned apocryphal Babylon headed by the AntiChrist.

[ozzy72]

the condemned apocryphal Babylon headed by the AntiChrist

Okay who let H into the Admin Forum?

[H]

Okay who let H into the Admin Forum?

Ooew, if you knew the PM I just sent... or my association with the noncorporeal realm and the information thereof.

[beefhole]

I have never understood where that fear came from but it deffinately does exist.

I can think fo two reasons of the top of my head-the original settlers in America who came to escape Catholic persecution (yeah, it actually is cited as a reason) and the severe resentment of the influx of Irish Catholics and other foreigners during the nineteenth cenutry.