Posted on 10/21/2009 8:08:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Senator urges Obama: Don't start enemies list 25 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Republican invoked the memory of the scandal-marred Nixon administration on Wednesday to urge U.S. President Barack Obama to "back up" and not "start an enemies list."
Senator Lamar Alexander told Reuters he has begun to see the Obama White House adopting an attitude similar to that of the Richard Nixon White House four decades ago, that "everybody is against us and we are going to get them."
Alexander cited as examples the Obama administration's suggestion that it may support stripping the insurance industry of its exemption of federal anti-trust laws, its clash with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the president saying he will call out people who oppose him and boycott Fox News network.
Alexander, a member of the congressional Republican leadership, said he is "suggesting that the president back up" and "don't start an enemies list."
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Too late...the “enemies” list was started during the campaign.
My oh my..........such “tough talk” from the Coward Party.
Like “Tell dog not to bark...” ???
Yeah, too late. Obama, Rahm, and their endless communist czars are total evil pr*cks, whose very reason for living is to HATE.
Alexander is sadly mistaken. The O admin has a wide berth to form an enemies list. They have infinitely more unwavering support than Nixon could have ever comprehended. That support comes from all corners of a very vibrant MSM.
Big difference though—Nixon didn’t have the media bending over for him.
Coming from a Republican, this sounds a little like:
Please don’t hit us anymore! We’ll be good.
Yeah, Rahm is such an evil bastard the “enemies list” is hard-wired into his brain. It is way beyond the starting stage.
So he compared Obama to Nixon, eh?
On the good side, that could be a warning that Obama could end up like Nixon.
On the negative side, I would suggest he pick somebody way worse than Nixon to compare Obama with (and keep the comparisons out of the Republican Party, since there are so many comparisons he could make far over on the radical left).
Obama already has an active and growing “enemies” list.
Unfortunately, Obama’s list is made up of patriots, not the terrorists that seek to destroy us all.
read Saul Alinsky, he urges you to make your life an enemies list
It would be a long one. And I should be on it somewhere
Following him are all the perverted trash that fill up the White House.
The list goes on through a majority of members of both houses of Congress as well as their burgeoning staffs.
Hollyweird is well represented as are governors and state legislators.
The media had absolutely no problem with the Clintons having an enemies list. FBI files? What FBI files? Vince Foster ... yeah it was an apparent suicide. Ron Brown, nah, unluckly plane crash. etc. etc. etc. BUT, a vast right-wing conspiracy, SURE, that’s REAL!
Start? He’s already had to start indexing.
“Progressive Lite party cries at name calling from meanies on the left. “They won’t even play with us”... “
That is about the size of it.
I have a different take on this. I see it as a positive sign that the media is promulgating (even on a small level) the whole Obama/Nixonian meme.
Even people on the left are noting the similarities, people like Helen Thomas. Helen actually said that Obama was worse than Nixon.
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