It's clear to me that the first African-American POTUS is a catalytic president.

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I didn't get into responsibility over Diem's death. I said it was the destabilizing event. The idea Kennedy would have withdrawn completely in the face of the complete destabilization of 1964 is just ludicrous. Kennedy wanted to pull out soldiers because we were winning. That was not the case after Diem's death. Plans change in response to the change in events. This argument is akin to arguing that Truman's failure to enact the Morgenthau Plan was a secret move to help out the military-industrial complex by inventing the Cold War. You might as well argue that Lincoln had a secret plan to start a civil war by his failure not to react after the attack on Fort Sumter. Get real.

You misstate the operation of the ACA and you ignore what I said. You don't "get the chance" to buy insurance, you're required to do it. If you make over 46K a year as a single, you pay full price. Now, sure, most people do get their health insurance through their employers. Of course, that's been steadily decreasing over time. Also, given the sheer volume of job losses over the last few years and the fact that most new jobs are low paid and without benefits, expect my questions to apply to an ever increasing share of the population. How precisely should one manage both the burden of student loans along with this new tax which mandates barely tolerable insurance coverage? At what point will someone in this position be able to save money for the purpose of retirement, a house, vacations, etc? The ACA seems ok if you're poor or wealthy, but not so much if you're between the two. What incentive does this give a person in this position to support this program?

Going back to the OP, your blanket condemnation of Obama critics was way off-base. There are legitimate and illegitmate reasons to criticize him. When you lump the two types of reasons together, you kill your own credibility. You've essentially said that people who want to see people like Jamie Dimon prosecuted for violations of Sarbanes-Oxley are the same as birthers. That's neither smart nor true.