Posted on 05/15/2013 9:58:55 AM PDT by Justaham
Although the Obama administration has been hit by three scandals in a matter of days new revelations about Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department seizing Associated Press phone records the White House scoffed at comparing President Barack Obama with President Richard Nixon.
At Tuesdays White House press briefing a reporter asked, President Obama has been compared to President Nixon. How does he feel about that?
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said he did not have a reaction from the president to relay on that matter, but also dismissed the premise of the question.
I can tell you, people who make those kinds of comparisons need to check their history, Carney said. Because what we have here with one issue, Benghazi, clearly were learning more and more is a political sideshow, a deliberate effort to politicize a tragedy. The president feels very strongly about that. You heard him address that yesterday.
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Nixon had a brain that was ill-used.
This lop eared fake hasn’t a functioning brain.
Definitely no comparison. Obama is many times worse in so many ways. I don’t think anyone could imagine Nixon, in effect, abandoning his duty post as Commander-in-Chief as Obama did during the hours Benghazi and around forty Americans were under attack.
No comparison at all.
“The fox says no chickens are missing” LOL
Obama is much worse!
Nixon had the dignity to resign.
Nixon was a native born American patriot and a anti-communist. He was a veteran, a heterosexual, and a Christian. There is no comparison.
If the White House has to put out a statement denying a comparison between Obama and Nixon then they are already in deep trouble.
They both pursued radically progressive domestic policies.
That’s correct. The scope of what Obama’s drones have done far surpasses anything Nixon’s men ever thought of doing.
Plus, Nixon was intelligent. He didn’t need a teleprompter. He was talented. Yup. No comparison.
Benghazi contains elements of every one of the scandals I can think of over the last 40 years. I am sure that some of my FRiends will add to my list:
1. Watergate - Lying and cover ups
2. Iran-Contra - Gun Running (to syria?)
3. Sandy Berger - Destruction of evidence
4. Valerie Plame - Intelligence revealed
Let me clarify, I am personally not certain that a couple of those rise to “scandals,” however the press certainly did at the time.
Nixon never murdered anyone... obama and clinton have.
LLS
No there isn’t a comparison.
Obama is attempting to bring down the Republic.
And succeeding.
Nixon was a piker compared to the tyranny Obama is attempting to impose.
Chavez could have taken lessons from Obama.
Watergate was about John Dean
trying to recover photos of his prostitute wife
from the Democrat headquarters.
I agree with the White Hut on this one. Nixon was considerably more honest.
Here was my reply at CNSNEWS.COM:
“NO COMPARAISON, MR. PRESIDENT? Well that would be correct. Watergate was a bungled burglary of documents from the Democrats’ headquarters (which the democrats were ALSO doing, I might add, but were not caught). You have Fast & Furious (illegal) gun running; Benghazi catastrophe-which also involved gun running, but also included the deaths of state department employees; IRS extortion and harassment of conservative and Jewish organizations; the AP files being illegally seized; ObamaCare rammed through in an illegal manner, then you PUBLICLY strong-armed the Chief Justice with threats against his family, Chicago style, if he didn’t give you a favorable result...which he apparently took notice of and put the burden on we citizens, etc.
You, Mr. Obama (Sotero, or whatever) are in a category all by yourself. You thought that you could use your race to get by with anything and everything. It has been played over and again. WE are NOT the racist people you keep insisting we are. It is YOU! Power has corrupted you and your family and cohorts to the extent that you believe you and your actions are ABOVE THE LAW, that you answer ONLY to YOURSELF, not the people. The US Constitution says otherwise. It is WAY PAST time that you were brought to face your unconstitutional deeds, your lawlessness, and your own shortcomings. Every action we make, for good or bad, has consequences, likewise. Sooner or later, the consequences weigh in. While your DOJ might try it’s very best to keep you from seeing justice, there is One who rules on high who sees everything and He is a God of Justice.”
This is a triple bypass without any anesthetic.
What did the President know, and when did he know it?
Nobody died at Watergate.
Dead bodies pile up around 0bama, and nobody is accountable.
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