Posted on 05/19/2013 5:19:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama didn’t take the bait when a reporter asked how he felt about the comparison some of his critics were making about the scandals in his administration with those that happened when Richard Nixon was in the White House. The question capped a weeklong orgy of rhetoric with Republicans assailing abuses of power at the IRS and Justice Department, and the media all but writing off Obama’s second term as a colossal management failure.
Obama didn’t protest “I’m not Nixon,” which would have echoed the former president who once famously said in response to a question, “I’m not a crook.” He replied in the measured way that is his trademark, “You can go ahead and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions.” For the record, Nixon headed what can fairly be called a criminal conspiracy; some 40 people in his administration went to jail and did hard time.
The fact that a trio of scandals hitting roughly at the same time took on the aura of Watergate says more about the way our media work today than about any corrosive lapses in the White House or personality flaws in the president. “It’s fine to take a pounding for a couple of news cycles to figure out what you’re going to do,” says Chris Lehane, an alumnus of the Clinton White House, who says the president with his remarks Thursday afternoon in the Rose Garden is “out of the bunker” and has made “the pivot” to where it will be harder for the Republicans to use the scandals to thwart his agenda....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Tough week?
He hasn’t seen anything yet!
Whistling past the graveyard? Who said it was only going last a week Eleanor? I don’t think a time limit was set? You commies aren’t going to wiggle off the hook that easy. Crimes have been committed.
One big difference between 0’ and Nixon is that Tricky Dick was NOT of the Don’t-let-crisis-go-to-waste crowd. So, where Nixon resigned at the height of the scandal, 0’ is acting like a pig wallowing in its sty... if I can go further with metaphors, 0’ is happy as a clam, and is savoring all the things that might be possible with severe constitutional crisis...
Obama got the IRS and other agencies to rig the election for him by shutting down tea party groups.
He replied in the measured way that is his trademark, “You can go ahead and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions.”
Yeah, He’s a lying crook.
Elanor, he’s going down, and if you don’t smell
the blood in the water, you’ll get eaten too.
Let them try, the House Republicans should rightfully focus all of the chamber’s efforts on committees investigating the corruption in the White House.
Dear Eleanor: governing the country is not a crosstown high school rivalry. Poor decisions on the football field may result in some unpleasant memories, but poor decisions in foreign policy GET PEOPLE KILLED. If you can’t understand the difference, then I suggest you check yourself into a mental institution for you have lost your mind. Love and kisses,
blueunicorn6
America is dead but Obumblers aMeriKa is a slimy and grow cancer.
SEALs to America’s rescue! (I can dream, can’t I?)
“Obama got the IRS and other agencies to rig the election for him by shutting down tea party groups.”
Couple that with a generous helping of vote fraud,and voila you have a stolen election. And I thought that his vote fraud did it all, silly me!
“Elanor, he’s going down, and if you don’t smell
the blood in the water, you’ll get eaten too.”
Oh please, no one would eat Eleanor!
Though we understand that it's a Pavlovian response for your ilk, public fellatio at your age is really rather unbecoming nonetheless.
I wish, GWG. I wish.
Eleanor has at least that much in common with her late brother in law.
America is wounded badly...but not dead, and.....never will be!!! You cannot kill the burning desire for freedom in all human beings. Caesar failed, Nero failed, Caligua failed, Hitler failed, Mussolini failed, Stalin failed, Chavez failed, Mao failed, Castro failed, etc,, and Obama, a tyrant criminal like the tyrants named here, will fail also. His coming “Waterloo”......November, 2014!!! Please.....do not give up the fight to keep America, the free alive and growing!!!
Clift once said on John McLaughlin’s show:
“[Remaining in Communist] Cuba is a lifestyle choice.”
Never forget this
“I’m not Nixon”...
“I’m not not a crook”...
Nixon didn’t have an ambassador raped and murdered by terrorists.
“At least Monica had a reason for what she did. What does Eleanor get out of this relationship?”
She’s 72 years young; the possibilities are many.
More like getting back to golf and vacations.
Enjoy it now asshole, your days are numbered.
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