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Grandmama Mia! (Dowd on Clinton)
NYTimes ^ | 4/11/15 | M.Dowd

Posted on 04/12/2015 9:01:28 AM PDT by VinL

WHEN my brother Michael was a Senate page, he delivered mail to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who had offices across the hall from each other.

He recalled that Kennedy never looked up or acknowledged his presence, but Nixon would greet him with a huge smile. “Hi, Mike,” he’d say. “How are you doing? How’s the family?”

It seemed a bit counterintuitive, especially since my dad, a D.C. police inspector in charge of Senate security, was a huge Kennedy booster. (The two prominent pictures in our house were of the Mona Lisa and J.F.K.) But after puzzling over it, I finally decided that J.F.K. had the sort of magnetism that could ensorcell big crowds, so he did not need to squander it on mail boys. Nixon, on the other hand, lacked large-scale magnetism, so he needed to work hard to charm people one by one, even mail boys. Hillary Clinton has always tried to be more like the Democratic president she lived with in the White House, to figure out how he spins the magic. “I never realized how good Bill was at this until I tried to do it,” she once told her adviser, Harold Ickes. But she ends up being compared with the Republican president she investigated as a young lawyer for the House Judiciary’s Watergate investigation.

Her paranoia, secrecy, scandals and disappearing act with emails from her time as secretary of state have inspired a cascade of comparisons with Nixon.

Pat Buchanan, a former Nixon adviser, bluntly told Jason Zengerle recently in New York magazine: “She reminds me of Nixon,” another pol who’s more comfortable behind the scenes than grinding it out in the arena.

As Hillary (snip)

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To: cdcdawg
It’s possible that Kennedy was just a horse’s ass at the personal level, and Nixon wasn’t.

Certainly the case.

21 posted on 04/12/2015 9:19:37 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: cdcdawg
It’s possible that Kennedy was just a horse’s ass at the personal level, and Nixon wasn’t. I don’t think she considered that.

EXACTLY

22 posted on 04/12/2015 9:19:59 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: cdcdawg
It’s possible that Kennedy was just a horse’s ass at the personal level, and Nixon wasn’t. I don’t think she considered that.

Dowd basically said that, she just couched it in overly polite terminology.

23 posted on 04/12/2015 9:21:02 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: cdcdawg
The problem is that to make the shooting legally justifiable you have to demonstrate *danger* at the instant the gun was fired. Not one minute or three minutes earlier.

The Kennedy men tend to save their affection for the female of the species.They're known to shower them with praise and,as we know,more than one has drowned in those showers.

24 posted on 04/12/2015 9:24:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: eCSMaster

LOL

I had to look it up and thought the exact same thing.


25 posted on 04/12/2015 9:26:01 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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To: VinL

puff piece..


26 posted on 04/12/2015 9:27:45 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: VinL

Hillary Milhouse Nixon..... I like it.


27 posted on 04/12/2015 9:28:09 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: VinL
M.Dowd...


28 posted on 04/12/2015 9:34:04 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: cdcdawg

That was my first thought.


29 posted on 04/12/2015 9:36:55 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God bless the United States of America.)
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To: cdcdawg

Yep, for the Kennedys, the little people were crap to be used for their gain. I’m sure he was taught to not engage the hired help, unless they looked good in a skirt. NIXON on the other hand was genuine, so he engaged on the personal level, but didn’t like politics.


30 posted on 04/12/2015 9:37:43 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

And, Zeifman wrote a book about it - and it’s scathing. It’s called “Hillary’s Pursuit of Power”.

Zeifman also said that Hillary was “ethically unfit to be President”.

This is a THIN book that you can read in one evening. It’s very enlightening and shows exactly what Hillary did to try to prevent Nixon from having a lawyer, as well as other sneaky things she did to thwart Zeifman’s authority.


31 posted on 04/12/2015 9:39:57 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: dowcaet

That’s the root of Nixon’s inferiority complex that eventually became paranoia. He was smarter, worked harder, and actually cared more for the citizenry than any of the Ivy League snobs who always put him down. I really feel sorry for Nixon. He wasn’t the monster the likes of Oliver Stone would like us to believe.


32 posted on 04/12/2015 9:42:33 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: eCSMaster

She;s trying to be William F. Buckley!


33 posted on 04/12/2015 9:45:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

You ever watch his documenat her boss boy talk about being b****h Hillary was


34 posted on 04/12/2015 9:45:49 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: VinL

If all the Republican candidates and leaders get on the same page and echo Romney and Rand Pauls comments of today, Hillary will be toast before she gets out of the gate.

Their points - bridge to the past, not trustworthy, Washington elite insider for 18 years, plays by her own rules.

Hammer those points home at every opportunity.


35 posted on 04/12/2015 9:45:53 AM PDT by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: VinL
Words that can't be used in describing Ms. Clinton...

"Ambitious."
"polarizing"
"disingenuous"
"insincere"
"inevitable."
"Entitled."
"Overconfident"
"Secretive,
"Will do anything to win.”
"Represents the past."
"out of touch."

Has no one addressed "what is good for America and Americans" that factor? Hillary certainly doesn't fit that description any more that Obama and his communist/socialist handlers do in fact Ms. Clinton is more than likely more Socialist/Communist than the Community Organizer...she has embraced Saul Alinsky and his rules with zeal....from racist to sexist who needs more of that?

NO TO HILLARY!!!

36 posted on 04/12/2015 9:46:18 AM PDT by yoe
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To: VinL

Hillary is a “C” “U” Next Tuesday.


37 posted on 04/12/2015 9:49:56 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: VinL
Prezzy Dearest?


38 posted on 04/12/2015 9:51:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: VinL
That depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is.


39 posted on 04/12/2015 9:52:25 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it ! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: eCSMaster

Fantasy writers.


40 posted on 04/12/2015 9:55:29 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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