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Our Roost, Obama’s Chickens [Victor Davis Hanson]
National Review ^ | 7/8/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/08/2014 6:37:57 AM PDT by markomalley

Edited on 07/08/2014 6:52:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Often, crazy things seem normal for a time because logical catastrophes do not immediately follow.

A deeply suspicious Richard Nixon systematically and without pushback for years undermined and politicized almost every institution of the federal government, from the CIA and the FBI to the IRS and the attorney general

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 07/08/2014 6:37:57 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Nixon seemed to get away with it — until his second term. Once the public woke up, however, the eventual accounting proved devastating....

Yeah, well, if Woodward and Bernstein were still alive, Soetoro wouldn't be able to get away with this crap.

2 posted on 07/08/2014 6:40:39 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Second grin of the day.

Remember, Nixon was targeted for taking out known communist Alger Hiss.

No way W&B would do anything to the man (Obama) that has done more to advance communism than Stalin and Lenin combined.


3 posted on 07/08/2014 6:42:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: markomalley
Did the puritanical Carter ever understand what might be the consequences of his own self-righteousness in an imperfect world?

No he didn't. And even more sadly, he still hasn't.

4 posted on 07/08/2014 6:49:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: markomalley
I can sum up if you want to skip readimg: EVERYTHING HAS DONE HAS TURNED INTO A DISASTER! Whomever is elected in 2016 is going to face a strenuous uphill struggle.
5 posted on 07/08/2014 6:52:27 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: MrB

Nixon was also targeted because he insisted on prosecuting the Vietnam War; the same people who started it (the Kennedys, McNamara, the DC and NY media and intelligentsia) turned against it with vehemence when their idiot strategy went south and they found a handy target to blame in Nixon as being primarily responsible for the war (I’m not talking about McCarthy or McGovern, who at least were consistent). Its called projection of your own faults and failures on others and unfortunately, it worked.


6 posted on 07/08/2014 6:57:30 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Rummyfan
EVERYTHING OBAMA HAS DONE HAS TURNED INTO A DISASTER!
7 posted on 07/08/2014 6:57:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: laconic

How quickly the Libs have forgotten LBJ.


8 posted on 07/08/2014 7:05:38 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: markomalley

“Did Nixon ever grasp that such destruction was the natural wage of his own paranoia”

BS, Nixon had not one ounce of paranoia in his body.He was just stating the now known to obvious organized plot by the MSM to destroy him. The crimes that he committed pale in comparison to what just his immediate predecessors Kennedy and Johnson got away with.

It ain’t paranoia if it’s true.


9 posted on 07/08/2014 7:06:37 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Texas Eagle

Yes, not really a case of the public waking up but rather a concerted effort by a liberal media to launch their well timed and coordinated attack against a president and party they despise. Watergate was a mere drop in the bucket compared to Obama’s waterfall of scandals and malfeasance. An honest media would be vigorously pursuing these stories but evidently investigative reporting is reserved soley for use against conservatives.

The MSM doesn’t want the public to wake up.


10 posted on 07/08/2014 7:12:54 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Rummyfan

Yes, everywhere you look things are a mess. An absolute mess, and getting worse by the day.


11 posted on 07/08/2014 7:14:19 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: markomalley

I was watching Fox News, and they had a story about Obama going to Texas. VALERIE JARRETT sent a memo to Governor Perry about a meeting. What? Valerie Jarrett sent a memo about this? Is Obama incapacitated? We are governed by greedy, vengeful ten year old Democrats.


12 posted on 07/08/2014 7:27:06 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Texas Eagle

They are.


13 posted on 07/08/2014 7:52:39 AM PDT by White Bear ("Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem" - The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Valerie Jarrett is the defacto president.


14 posted on 07/08/2014 7:55:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: blueunicorn6

The last I heard was that Gov. Perry was invited to join a “roundtable” with Obama and some “faith” leaders. No doubt his usual photo-op set-up. Haven’t heard what Perry’s response was—I think he wanted a one-on-one meeting with Obama but I doubt he will get that.


15 posted on 07/08/2014 12:38:53 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Why Perry? Why not Abortion Barbie?
Is she avoiding Caliph Baraq on the campaign trail?


16 posted on 07/08/2014 12:40:27 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: White Bear
They are what? Alive?

I'm talking about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Not Joanne Woodward and Leonard Bernstein.

17 posted on 07/08/2014 6:27:56 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still alive.


18 posted on 07/15/2014 12:26:03 PM PDT by White Bear ("Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem" - The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety.)
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To: White Bear
They are???

They're as silent as dead people.

I wonder if Soetoro was a Republican if they'd pipe up.

19 posted on 07/15/2014 4:56:38 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

They were and still are part of the lame stream media. They would never be as critical of Obama’s actions and policies as they were of Nixon’s.


20 posted on 07/17/2014 8:02:12 AM PDT by White Bear ("Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem" - The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety.)
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