Posted on 05/19/2013 5:19:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama didnt 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 Obamas second term as a colossal management failure.
Obama didnt protest Im not Nixon, which would have echoed the former president who once famously said in response to a question, Im 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. Its fine to take a pounding for a couple of news cycles to figure out what youre 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....
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The laws don’t apply to them. They are in our face about it.
Your reply prompted a bit of research, which led to an already abyssmal opinion of the ridiculous cow sinking even further.
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It explains the old bag from Brooklyn’s blue blood pretense.
Nixon tried to get back to business too...
With or without scandal, any agenda beyond consolidation of power is a figment of Ellie’s imagination.
What tough week? He sits at 53% approval rating. The scandals don’t mean a thing.
If this admin were ever legitimately investigated, a lot more than 40 folks would go to jail. And it’d be great watching it.
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