Richard Nixon: I need to add Woodward and Bernstein to my enemies list! I need to add Facebook and Twitter to my enemies list! 40 years ago... If Watergate were happening now...
I love the way the Republicans on this list defend Bush by claiming Obama is worse. Bush/Cheney sank a growing economy, got us into two wars that not only did not make us safer but also massively increased our debt AND increased Al Queda recruiting, set up secret meetings to decide oil policy with Ken Lay of Enron and Saudi oil barons…wow, the list goes on and on. Obama on his worst day can’t compare.Nixon, as I see him, is a man with a tragic flaw. He had enormous ability and potential, but his paranoia and unfriendliness undermined it. He accomplished an astonishing number of things, and messed up a number more.
“LORD Bush Ears W”, and the really nasty, “Doctor Evil Dick” Cheney, make NIxon look positively BRILLIANT, HONEST, and CARING. Nixon and Henry kept the Viet Nam war going for longer than LBJ, and made MORE profit for corporate interests during that extension of the war. “W” and Cheney started TWO wars on the wrong people, killing hundreds of thousands, and made those wars more contractor friendly than any administration in history. THAT includes the French, who used the foreign legion mercenaries, who were pikers when in came to making profit off death.
Cheney was in Congress at the time and voted against impeachment of Nixon on the grounds that the president was above the law — that if the president did it, it was not illegal.
Trent Lott, who led the Senate prosecution of Clinton was also in Congress at the time and also voted against impeaching Nixon.
walruscarver2000 almost 12 years ago
Mention of Nixon sort of remiinds me of the wart in the Freeze Away commercial: “You’ll miss me.”
Motivemagus almost 12 years ago
I love the way the Republicans on this list defend Bush by claiming Obama is worse. Bush/Cheney sank a growing economy, got us into two wars that not only did not make us safer but also massively increased our debt AND increased Al Queda recruiting, set up secret meetings to decide oil policy with Ken Lay of Enron and Saudi oil barons…wow, the list goes on and on. Obama on his worst day can’t compare.Nixon, as I see him, is a man with a tragic flaw. He had enormous ability and potential, but his paranoia and unfriendliness undermined it. He accomplished an astonishing number of things, and messed up a number more.
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
“LORD Bush Ears W”, and the really nasty, “Doctor Evil Dick” Cheney, make NIxon look positively BRILLIANT, HONEST, and CARING. Nixon and Henry kept the Viet Nam war going for longer than LBJ, and made MORE profit for corporate interests during that extension of the war. “W” and Cheney started TWO wars on the wrong people, killing hundreds of thousands, and made those wars more contractor friendly than any administration in history. THAT includes the French, who used the foreign legion mercenaries, who were pikers when in came to making profit off death.
braindead Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Cheney was in Congress at the time and voted against impeachment of Nixon on the grounds that the president was above the law — that if the president did it, it was not illegal.
Trent Lott, who led the Senate prosecution of Clinton was also in Congress at the time and also voted against impeaching Nixon.