Not a Crook—Yet: The Obama administration seems more Nixonian by the day.

City Journal ^ | 14 May 2013 | Harry Stein

[Windcatcher]

It won’t be the race card—it will be the race *deck*. He’ll try to get all of our cities burning.

Not that I’ll shed a tear over it.

[TexGrill]

After Obama throws his his staffers under the bus, they can get jobs working for the Chinese media. One former Democratic Party operative has his own talk radio show in Beijing where he defends Obama and trashes Republicans daily, but don’t worry he has no more than 3 listeners. Check this guy out: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2011/07/20/2361s649528.htm

[etcb]

Neither the press nor the democrats went after President Nixon because of the Watergate break-in. Watergate and his so called dirty tricks was just politics as had been practiced for years by both parties. McGovern was not well liked by the old line democrat leadership but when Nixon defeated him by such a large majority, they were embarrassed and humiliated. Taking Nixon out was more to unite their party and save their power than to restore good government. Watergate was just a handy excuse used by a hostile press and a few powerful and ruthless committee chairmen to take down a popular president. I am still convinced that had he adopted the same scorched earth defense as President Clinton, he could have survived. In the end, he cared more for his country than for himself.

[uncitizen]

Obama and Nixon...hmmm. Ones a Muslim, the other was a Quaker...couldn’t be any more different

[Paladin2]

H0lder is this guy's evil twin"

[neverdem]

LOL!

[Gritty]

I lived through the Nixon years.

Nixon wasn't tanywhere this bad. In fact, he was a pretty decent man and a reasonably good President. He was a political partisan, but he was an American first. I never had any doubt he was doing the best he could for this country.

The media and the Left never forgave him because he successfully went after that Communist spy in the State Department, Alger Hiss, and got him convicted. They were supporters of Hiss even after it was proven he was a Soviet spy and guilty of treason.

[uncommonsense]

Just off the top of my head - some of the MAJOR ObaMao corruptions - leaving out his eligibility or his insanely controversial nominations. Behind each item is a plethora – a book’s worth of infractions:

• Massive campaign finance and voter fraud (promised would accept public funding, then reneged and illegally took international donations)
• ObamaCare lies , slam dunk procedural circus, having never read the bill
• White House director requesting “Fishy” emails against ObamaCare
• New Black Panther Voter intimidation dismissal
• Selective amnesty
• Fast and Furious – forced gun dealers to sell to straw buyers, didn’t confer with Mexico, didn’t track, allowed anti-aircraft and RPG’s - many dead on both sides
• EPA targeting of energy service companies
• Giant favors and positions to campaign bundlers / supporters (Solindra, illegally bailing out auto union pensions and sticking taxpayer with the bill, etc.)
• ”Recess appointments”of political operatives / czars when the Senate isn’t in recess, or skirting the approval process by changing the title, but not the legal position
• NSA mining social media for policy dissidents – big-brother crawler
• Home Land Security targeting ex-military and conservatives
• IRS targeting conservative organizations
• DOJ targeting reporters
• Abetting terrorist attacks or missing obvious intel:
  • Droning US citizens vs capturing and obtaining intel
  • Fort Hood shooter was a White House guest
  • Underwear Bomber being cleared to travel by State Department after being detained in the UK
  • Terrorist attack at OK military recruiting center
  • Afghanistan militant strike - killing our Seal Team 6 after ObaMao “outed” them - shooting down a helicopter packed with Special Ops
  • Benghazi debacle , or, intentional hit on our ambassador
  • Boston bombers – after being warned twice by Russia and independently by Saudi Arabia

I’m sure I’m missing other MAJOR seditious events by ObaMao. Feel free to fill in the major issues (but adding the medium and low levels problems would fill a library)

[Paladin2]

The STASI have come across the pond.

[Paladin2]

Nixon promised that he had a secret plan to fix Vietnam.

The reality was a total failure and Nixon was lying to get elected.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Watergate was just a handy excuse used by a hostile press and a few powerful and ruthless committee chairmen to take down a popular president. I am still convinced that had he adopted the same scorched earth defense as President Clinton, he could have survived. In the end, he cared more for his country than for himself."

Excellent points and I would like to add, I am still convinced that had he contested the 1960 election as many urged he could have won. But the cost was too great for the country. In the end, he cared more for his country than for himself.

[morphing libertarian]

we need a simllar list for shillary for 2016. Starting with her college thesis going through the watergate committee and on and on

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL

[uncommonsense]

"Nixon wasn't tanywhere this bad. In fact, he was a pretty decent man and a reasonably good President. He was a political partisan, but he was an American first. I never had any doubt he was doing the best he could for this country."

While "not as bad" (how can it be worse than a bunch of ACORN/CPUSA flunkies?) - the Nixon I knew was a typical statist and atypical tyrant. Price, wage, and market controls (Phase I, II, III), EPA, OSHA, expanding Vietnam while dictating Rules of Engagement that lost the war... and so on.

[castlebrew]

LOL! That needs a Like button!

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[etcb]

In the end, he cared more for his country than for himself.

I am glad to find someone else who has a good word for President Nixon. I find it sad that his memory is so often brought forth to exemplify evil or corruption. I don't remember him that way. I will never forget his impromptu speech as he was leaving the White House after resigning. The following quotation from that speech has stayed with me these many years.

"Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."

With that sentence, he summed up his downfall. For the remainder of his life, he worked to rehabilitate his reputation but never complained about unfair treatment.

[boop]

The problem with Nixon is he had a conscience.

Obama doesn't.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: Nixon was lying to get elected.

"Nixon's plan [to get North Vietnamese Communists back to negotiate an end to the war] worked and in early January 1973, the Americans and North Vietnamese ironed out the last details of the settlement." Here

Yes I remember election November 1972 and those charges.. those charges likewise were election rhetoric. Didn't work. Nixon won 49 of the 50 states IIRC.

Neither did the peace settlement work except to pull our troops out; meanwhile

"The American commitment to defend South Vietnam, described as unequivocal by Nixon and Kissinger, had been vitiated by the Watergate scandal and Nixon's subsequent resignation. By that time, the Paris Accords seemed memorable only as the vehicle on which the United States rode out of Southeast Asia."

So Watergate became a Communist super weapon it appears to me.

All those military assistance (except for troops) commitments we made to South Viet Nam that were associated with the peace agreement -- in the event that the Communists broke the agreement -- became null and void not only by Watergate but by the Congress; and I am not 100 percent sure how the public would have reacted if we started supplying South VN with war materiel but no troops.

[DoughtyOne]

Maybe even a Quaker... :^)