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Bernstein: Ford's Nixon Pardon 'Right Thing To Do'
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 03/09/2011 5:20:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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Surprising? Bernstein says Ford right to pardon Nixon. Ping to Today show list.
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posted on
03/09/2011 5:22:27 AM PST
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governsleastgovernsbest
(FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Bernstein is no reporter. He’s a PR agent for the democrat party.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Many of the talking heads say that Ford’s pardon of Nixon cost him the re-election. But look at the electoral map of 1976. The South deserted the GOP for what it thought was one of their own..Jimmy Carter. We lived to regret that decision and voted overwhelmingly to defeat him four years later.
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posted on
03/09/2011 5:31:11 AM PST
by
tiger
To: governsleastgovernsbest
latent guilt?
Carl's old....he wants a clear conscience
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posted on
03/09/2011 5:32:24 AM PST
by
Guenevere
(....)
To: tiger
Ford’s pardon of Nixon was a loser with the traditional/Rockefeller wing that wanted Nixon lower than he was in 1962 after the gubernatorial defeat in CA. Your comment on losing the South is absolutely on target. Together, it was a one-two punch combination. Wiping the slate clean and going with Reagan would have been the smart move but it seems the 70s were just made to be the Lost Decade for the US.
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posted on
03/09/2011 5:54:49 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It was the right thing to do because it kept our former President from having a trial and possible jail time. Never in America do we want a President in jail.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hey, someone dredged up Carl to talk about Watergate again. Who is going to satisfy the burning public interst in Watergate once this old dinosaur dies?
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:14:10 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:14:49 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: governsleastgovernsbest
That guy looks like a cross between Jimmy and Billy Carter.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:17:04 AM PST
by
krb
(Obama is a miserable failure.)
To: napscoordinator
Never in America do we want a President in jail. Speak for yourself.
I would like to see Obama serve time, or at least made to answer, for the fraud he perpetrated upon this country along with those who aided and abetted the fraud.
ML/NJ
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:18:05 AM PST
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
Just curious: why don’t you find Bernstein’s comment surprising?
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:24:50 AM PST
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ford was correct in pardoning Nixon.
Bernstein can stick it.
To: tiger
The South deserted the GOP for what it thought was one of their own..Jimmy Carter. Very good point.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Revisionist History (put out there as further Dem justification for letting Slick Willie wriggle off of the impeachment hook)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Liberal media getting us prepared for President Biden’s pardon of The Anointed One in the not too distant future.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:45:15 AM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: napscoordinator
It was the right thing to do because it kept our former President from having a trial and possible jail time. Never in America do we want a President in jail.No, never in America does NAPSCOORDINATOR want a President in jail.
Cuz Lazamataz sure does.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:55:49 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(IMPRISON JOE PRO BONO!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It might have been the right thing to do, but his timing was godawful. The September 1974 pardon ensured that the GOP lost record numbers of congressional seats and quite possibly ensured the deaths of millions of Indo-Chinese at the hands of the communists.
There was no reason it couldn't have waited until November 15 of that year.
As much as I despise LBJ to this day and think Ford was an honorable and good man with good intentions, I have to agree with LBJ's assessment of him: He played football too many times without a helmet.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:59:43 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: SoFloFreeper
SoFlo: Bernstein agreed with you—he also said pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.
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posted on
03/09/2011 7:10:20 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
why dont you find Bernsteins comment surprising? Who said it was surprising? My point was that it was wrong. I believe that a President must be made to answer for his illegal actions; and Ford's pardon established a precedent that they do not.
ML/NJ
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posted on
03/09/2011 7:12:54 AM PST
by
ml/nj
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