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As we begin to pay homage,

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 22:35:12 +0000

As we begin to pay homage, let's include a graven image of the craven bastard and his undead sidekick and maybe note, just in passing, that our country would have been out of Vietnam on the same terms years earlier and and less hundreds of thousands of deaths except for their actions.

Nixon wound down Vietnam

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:00:14 +0000

In reply to I was right, waste of time.

Nixon wound down Vietnam pretty damn fast, considering a peak of 500k+ troops when he took office, down to basically 0 by end of 1st term; much faster than our tepid departure from Iraq or Afghanistan. Probably the right wasn't happy with caving to hippies' demands, but I guess strangely he isn't remembered as much of a peacenik by the left either (just today a writer at Daily Beast notes that by voting Cleaver instead of Humphrey, "I know now that I abdicated and am personally responsible for the expansion of the Vietnam War". No good deed goes unpunished. And no good journalist knows how to read graphs, apparently.

I was right, waste of time.

NCD — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:16:15 +0000

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I was right, waste of time.

Whenever you get a Social Security cost of living increase, thank Nixon.

The right didn't get rid of him because he was a crook, liar or a prick, which he was, like many politicians.

They got rid of him because of his liberal policies. Only some of which are listed above.

And our wonderful right leaning corporate media cashed in on Watergate ratings, claiming 'democracy works and we and Congress are doing our job'.

Repubs GWB and Reagan had far more and bigger scandals than Nixon. And thanks to compliant Dems, and obedient corporate TV and press, got away with them.

He was a prick, but most of

NCD — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:21:47 +0000

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He was a prick, but most of them were, the point is he did a lot of liberal things and the right hated him, and the right got rid of him.

Reagan and GWB did far worse things and got away with it. The Dems were only allowed to get Nixon because the GOP Ok'd it and hung him out to dry. It didn't prove executive power is held to account, it proved the right detetmined who would be held to account.

Hillary is doing a pretty

Richard Day — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 02:47:02 +0000

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Hillary is doing a pretty good job of it so far.

Basically no one person can 'fix' this nation; Americans must work together.

He was a crook.

Flavius — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 02:27:40 +0000

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He was a crook.

More specfically as the tapes how he was a racist liar. Among the things that are irrelevant are

o the bills he passed .LBJ passed more , that didn't make him a good human being

o the human weaknesses of Woodward etc. They revealed things lllegal things Nixon had done. Those things were illegal . End of story

o That Noam thinks he was "liberal". What matters is that he was a crook. Being a "liberal" crook doesn't make that go away.

Kareem's on!

Richard Day — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:10:12 +0000

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Kareem's on!

He's tracing the 'modern' Freedom of Religion statutes that have nothing to do with Freedom at all.

Oh I found Bill Maher's take

Richard Day — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:55:58 +0000

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Oh I found Bill Maher's take on last night's convention.

Unless I have really missed the moment, these are the good old days. ha

I have had my own thoughts

Richard Day — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:43:41 +0000

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I have had my own thoughts about Nixon. Looking back, we could have done worse! ha

And your list is nohow falsified. That is for sure.

It is just that through the transcripts alone, tricky dicky was certainly a prick.

It is just that in this day and age, it seems clear that we did better under Nixon than we could ever do under Trump.

Digby had a good writeup

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:25:40 +0000

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Digby had a good writeup about Leon Panetta sucker punching Democrats, Republicans, whoever...

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/14/leon_panettas_self_righteous_fury_the_tr...

Only topped in self-serving betrayal by Daniel Moynihan. Will Hillary put Panetta on her team, or have they learned their lesson?