Posted on 08/10/2014 8:07:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Forty years ago public outrage about the actions of President Richard Milhous Nixon, lead by his long time liberal critics, forced him to be the first U.S. chief executive to resign the presidency. Critics screamed about Nixon’s extra-legal and extra-constitutional conduct as protestors ringed the White House chanting “Jail to the Chief.”
Nixon’s men had spied on their fellow citizens, allegedly used the IRS to harass their political enemies, waged war without the consent of Congress and used the CIA in an effort to hide their crimes.
No man, Nixon’s critics assured us, was above the law. For his transgressions, Richard Nixon was forced from office, evading prosecution only because of a presidential pardon.
Nixon’s men illegally wiretapped his political opponents -- and they went to jail for it. When the FBI used warrantless surveillance to wiretap and intercept the mail of anti-war radicals, those who did so were charged, tried and convicted.
Obama has used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to guarantee any surveillance the government wants without probable cause. Nixon spied on a virtual hand-full. Barack Obama’ s NSA wire-taps the entire nation and monitors the e-mails of thousands.
Nixon talked about using the IRS to harass his opponents but there is no evidence that he successfully did so, yet illegal use of the IRS was among the Articles of Impeachment voted by the House of Representatives. Obama’s IRS has actually used the IRS to harass conservative groups. Can you imagine the liberal outcry if IRS officials under Nixon referred to liberals as “a—holes’ and “crazies”?
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Nixon wasn’t that bad. A bunch of people did stupid crap and he covered it up. That was his only wrong (besides starting the EPA and price controls).
Agreed. Nixon’s own prior negative experience with the media
should have informed him that he would never get away with the
same crap as his predessors LBJ and JFK, both Democrats.
“.....Nixon was bad but Obama is worse”.....
Nixon was a choir boy compared to odumbo. Where is the same treatment for odumbo that Nixon received? Crickets.....
Boy, howdy! Watch the MSM Obutt-boyz complain and joke about
him after he is out of office when they are carrying the water for
the next libtard savior.
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