Back to the Future: Vietnam, Watergate and Rove

WSJ.com Opinion Journal ^ | Friday, June 16, 2006 | Michael Barone

[Albion Wilde]

Left-wing nostalgia dies hard, but can it survive the events of this week?

It has been a tough 10 days for those who see current events through the prisms of Vietnam and Watergate...[snip]

Historians may regard it as a curious thing that the left and the press have been so determined to fit current events into templates based on events that occurred 30 to 40 years ago...[snip]

Journalists in the 1940s, '50s and early '60s tended to believe they had a duty to buttress Americans' faith in their leaders and their government. Journalists since Vietnam and Watergate have tended to believe that they have a duty to undermine such faith, especially when the wrong party is in office.

That belief has its perils for journalism, as the Fitzgerald investigation has shown...

[Albion Wilde]

Michael Barone up to his usual standard of incisive, matter-of-fact, logical Dem-flaying.

[ConservativeGreek]

Best political writer in America.

[Republican Red]

BTT

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Good big-picture summation of recent events ping.

[Lando Lincoln]

Excellent piece from Mr. Barone. I'm surprised there are not more FReeper comments.

Lando

[Albion Wilde]

Excellent piece from Mr. Barone. I'm surprised there are not more FReeper comments.

Thanks, Lando. I think I posted it too early in the morning (5 am eastern) for most people and it was swept off the front page. Live and learn!

[Lando Lincoln]

Let's bump it to "Extended" and see what happens!

Lando

[SideoutFred]

ping

[Nonstatist]

The pursuit of Karl Rove by the left and the press has been just the latest episode in the attempted criminalization of political differences. Is there any hope that it might turn out to be the last?

No hope, IMO

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET


The Democrats taking advantage of WATERGATE in the 1974 Congressional Elections =

The Democrats trying to take advantage of the Iraq War in the 2006 Congressional Elections


For...

...after their winning the 1974 Congressional Elections the Democrats cut off all U.S. military & humanitarian aid to a an abandoned Free South Vietnam fighting for its own Freedom on its own, and it fell in 2 1/2 years.

The Senator FRANK CHURCH (D) Investigating Committee also assaulted our U.S. Intelligence Community so badly that we are still paying heavy prices, after our being attacked here at home in a new century. A Senator whose parents were connected directly to the Communist Party of America.

If the 2006 Congressional Elections turn out the same as 32 years ago...

...WE HAVE all HAD IT...
...and so has our Freedom.

For the Enemy is now Within...
...and always has been.



Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles of the Vietnam War 1965-66

http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm


NEVER FORGET

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[Albion Wilde]

"...the latest episode in the attempted criminalization of political differences. Is there any hope that it might turn out to be the last?"

No hope, IMO

I have to say, in spite of Clinton's disgusting behavior with women, I think the Kenn Starr prosecution was a very, very bad thing for the nation. Surely there were other things he did besides lie about an extramarital sleazefest, which almost anyone would do. The wholesale search for things to prosecute in every administration is the result. It may never end. It's bad for the country.

[Albion Wilde]

For the Enemy is now Within...
...and always has been.

I totally agree with this point, and this is the scariest thing. Between the press, the Marxist universities and the media elites, we will be very lucky to avoid a melt-down. If not over this war, then there will be something else. The number of mindless socialists in this country now is appalling. People don't realize the price of freedom, and how fragile it is, when everyone is looking for a free lunch, and the corporations responsible for pricing consumer goods and providing employment security are behaving rapaciously.

[the final gentleman]

"I have to say, in spite of Clinton's disgusting behavior with women, I think the Kenn Starr prosecution was a very, very bad thing for the nation. Surely there were other things he did besides lie about an extramarital sleazefest, which almost anyone would do. The wholesale search for things to prosecute in every administration is the result. It may never end. It's bad for the country."
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I dunno, Albion, you make comparisons based on your presumptions, and you fail to make the distinctions that separate wrong from right.

Do you think it best left untold and best unaddressed if our President Bush banged a nineteen year old White House intern in the Oval Office and then, while looking directly into the eyes of the American people via television, he indignantly swore (under oath) that he didn't?

[Nonstatist]

I think the Kenn Starr prosecution was a very, very bad thing for the nation

To put it all in context, the Democraps started the criminalization of political differences with Nixon and later, Reagan. Payback is a bitch, but I think we can count on Democraps/Media/proffesoriate class to accelerate the race to the bottom. Thats what they do best.

[Albion Wilde]

Do you think it best left untold and best unaddressed if our President Bush banged a nineteen year old White House intern in the Oval Office and then, while looking directly into the eyes of the American people via television, he indignantly swore (under oath) that he didn't?

That's a "when did you stop beating your wife" question, because Bush would never do such a thing.

As for Slick Willie, of course his behavior was reprehensible. But the prosecution started out over substantive charges and ended up over a lie that was forced out of him when his pecadillo was made public. Sometimes extremes, even in the search for "justice", are a bad thing. Are you aware that, as a result of the huge publicity Kenn Starr's questioning of Clinton received, massive numbers of middle school children began practicing oral sex and contracting sexually-transmitted diseases orally, because all that information was printed in the daily newspapers and explained to the prosecutor by our then-President?

[Albion Wilde]

...the Democraps started the criminalization of political differences with Nixon and later, Reagan. Payback is a bitch, but I think we can count on Democraps/Media/proffesoriate class to accelerate the race to the bottom. Thats what they do best.

I agree with both your points. But I continue to decry the prosecution of Clinton over a lie over a private pecadillo, when there were probably many public and political acts he did which were much more deserving of scrutiny and huge cost to the taxpayer to prosecute. Everybody already knew he was a sexual slimeball.

[Albion Wilde]

And I don't think that the Republicans should have stooped to the same level as the Democraps.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET


For most... ...It's AMERICA First, ..always.


After leaving office...

...former President of the United States BILL CLINTON stated that:


"There may not even be an America around in 300 years"


After doing all that he could to make it so while in office.


While still President of the United States, BILL CLINTON went to Europe to declare that:


"There shouldn't be just one Superpower, like us, in the world ...rather that all countries including our enemies should be playing from the same level playing field"


While on his way to being an impeached President of the United States...

...President BILL CLINTON went to Nicaragua to apologize to the now Free People there for our having backed the wrong side .. Freedom-fighters.. fighting against CASTRO-backed communists that were trying to take over Center America during the early 1980's.

While a student at Oxford University in 1970 BILL CLINTON spent 40 days touring the Communist Soviet Union to pick up his Communist funding for the 3 Anti-U.S. Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations he was organizing to take place outside OUR American Embassy in London, England.
The Enemy is now Within.. ...and always has been, ...4-SURE.

NEVER FORGET

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[danamco]

Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

I have to say, in spite of Clinton's disgusting behavior with women, I think the Kenn Starr prosecution was a very, very bad thing for the nation. Surely there were other things he did besides lie about an extramarital sleazefest, which almost anyone would do. The wholesale search for things to prosecute in every administration is the result. It may never end. It's bad for the country.




So, you are saying that your resident getting a blow job in the Oval Office is something acceptable to you?
NOT TO ME AND MANY, MANY OTHERS!

besides lie about an extramarital sleazefest, which almost anyone would do.

Who are the "almost anyone would do"??
For your own morale's sake, I hope that the first line in your "about page" is something you really believe in!??!
Or, am I missing something???

[Albion Wilde]

Yes, you are definitely missing something.