Political Perspective: 39 years ago today

[Cigar]

Richard Nixon Announces Resignation - August 8, 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lzXL7C0JQDM

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[jillian]

Richard Nixon Announces Resignation - August 8, 1974


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lzXL7C0JQDM

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my husband was a kid who happened to be with his family in DC that week. he got to see them walk across the lawn as they went to be flown out. very vivid memory for him.

[Mainecoons]

Amazing isn't it? Nixon was tossed for far less corruption than the current administration. Congratulations on co-opting the very vigilant press that would make this happen if it still existed.

Nixon was a paranoid nut who destroyed his own administration rather than simply out and throw his bunch of equally nutty advisors under the bus. Obama is sane and just simply corrupt and dishonest. I suppose you could count that as an improvement.

BTW, I was right there in D.C. and witnessed the entire thing. It was much better than TV.

[jillian]

Amazing isn't it? Nixon was tossed for far less corruption than the current administration. Congratulations on co-opting the very vigilant press that would make this happen if it still existed.

no. he wasn't. he committed a crime.

don't you ever take a break from trolling and stay on topic?

obama derangement syndrome at it's finest.

[Cigar]

Amazing isn't it? Nixon was tossed for far less corruption than the current administration. Congratulations on co-opting the very vigilant press that would make this happen if it still existed.

Nixon was a paranoid nut who destroyed his own administration rather than simply out and throw his bunch of equally nutty advisors under the bus. Obama is sane and just simply corrupt and dishonest. I suppose you could count that as an improvement.

BTW, I was right there in D.C. and witnessed the entire thing. It was much better than TV.

The Evil Black Man Won ... Again.

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[Cigar]

my husband was a kid who happened to be with his family in DC that week. he got to see them walk across the lawn as they went to be flown out. very vivid memory for him.

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall06/Weiner/IMGS/nixonpeace.jpg

[Mainecoons]

Talking to yourself again? Really busy at "work" I see, posting every several minutes.

:grin:

[Mainecoons]

no. he wasn't. he committed a crime.

don't you ever take a break from trolling and stay on topic?

obama derangement syndrome at it's finest.

Another personal attack!

[patrickt]

no. he wasn't. he committed a crime.

don't you ever take a break from trolling and stay on topic?

obama derangement syndrome at it's finest.

He did. As did President Clinton when he committed perjury. Oh, wait, he's a liberal Democrat, never mind. As I recall, Nixon's crime was a cover up. A cover up? IRS, Benghazi, NSA. Cover up is the primary operating mode for the most transparent administration ever. Pitiful, isn't it.

The night before the speech I told a friend that President Nixon would burn the tapes and claim national security. For all his flaws, President Nixon cared about the U.S. and had some respect for the Constitution and due process. He didn't burn the tapes and claim national security interests.

Now, we have a President who hates the Constitution, the country, and most of the people in it and the ideologically pure on the left cheer him on.

[Cigar]

Talking to yourself again? Really busy at "work" I see, posting every several minutes.

:grin:

I got it like that ... :wink:

... and if you work hard and save your money ... maybe someday you can too pay the Cost to be the Boss. :grin:

[Cigar]

He did. As did President Clinton when he committed perjury. Oh, wait, he's a liberal Democrat, never mind. As I recall, Nixon's crime was a cover up. A cover up? IRS, Benghazi, NSA. Cover up is the primary operating mode for the most transparent administration ever. Pitiful, isn't it.

The night before the speech I told a friend that President Nixon would burn the tapes and claim national security. For all his flaws, President Nixon cared about the U.S. and had some respect for the Constitution and due process. He didn't burn the tapes and claim national security interests.

Now, we have a President who hates the Constitution, the country, and most of the people in it and the ideologically pure on the left cheer him on.

Yea ... what Guy has ever Lied about getting a Blow Job ... then cleaning off on the White House Drapes :grin:

I'm sure President Kennedy bent Marilyn Monroe over a few fine antique White House furniture's :laugh:

... and bet Bo the Obama's Dog has lifted his leg on some also.

[BB-35]

It was my birthday,I had just turned 14,people started running outside saying 'Nixon quit!'

[Venus]

He did. As did President Clinton when he committed perjury. Oh, wait, he's a liberal Democrat, never mind. As I recall, Nixon's crime was a cover up. A cover up? IRS, Benghazi, NSA. Cover up is the primary operating mode for the most transparent administration ever. Pitiful, isn't it.

The night before the speech I told a friend that President Nixon would burn the tapes and claim national security. For all his flaws, President Nixon cared about the U.S. and had some respect for the Constitution and due process. He didn't burn the tapes and claim national security interests.

Now, we have a President who hates the Constitution, the country, and most of the people in it and the ideologically pure on the left cheer him on.


I thought this was an interesting read about Obama and the IRS.

http://netrightdaily.com/2013/08/will-obama-invoke-executive-privilege-on-the-irs-documents/?utm_source=WhatCounts+Publicaster+Edition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Will+Obama+invoke+executive+privilege +on+the+IRS+documents%3f&utm_content=Will+Obama+invoke+executive+privilege+ on+the+IRS+documents%3f


Will Obama invoke executive privilege on the IRS documents?



Things are getting very, very interesting in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal targeting tea party and other 501(c)(4) organizations, with the House Committee on Oversight leading the investigation issuing a wide-reaching subpoena for executive branch documents.

Included in the request made by committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Ind.) to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/8.2.13-Issa-to-Lew.pdf) are all of the communications of IRS officials at the center of the scandal, Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, from 2009 to present.

[nic34]

Unortunately it came too late for George McGovern.

[Venus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/obama-like-nixon-but-wors_b_3539525.html

Obama: Like Nixon, But Worse





Is Barack Obama like Richard Nixon?

Until recently that pairing seemed odd. Obama and Nixon are leaders from different generations, leading different parties with distinctly different styles.

Yet both used excessive force to crack down on whistleblowers and journalists. And while their tactics have differed, the goal was the same: to silence and criminalize those who expose government wrongdoing.

Obama, however, may have learned from his predecessor's mistakes. While Nixon broke the law to attack dissenting voices, Obama has distorted it to the same effect.