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Hillary has become who she once despised. I think she was 27 then, a young lawyer, briefly brought on as a staffer for a House committee tasked to write up articles of impeachment. Like many young progressives of her generation, the demon before her was Richard Nixon. He was the first hated president of the modern era, and he deserved it. Brilliant in his way, he was also imperious, superior and arrogant. So convinced of his own infallibility that he believed the rules didn’t apply to him. He became secretive, and in time made keeping the public and the press...

He’s compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, (belatedly) praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard M. Nixon. My father, Lou Cannon, covered the White House with distinction for the Washington Post for many years, beginning in the Nixon administration. He employed an easy rule of thumb when fielding phone calls from anonymous tipsters: If the caller said, “I have...

As we close in on the first 100 days of the Obama presidency, something remarkable is taking place. Americans appear to be growing up. The adolescent addiction to instant gratification seems to be not only rolling back, it is being replaced by a mature outlook that is profoundly new for a fast-food culture. As we look at the polls, certain things are rising through the bristles of public ignorance. We now seem to be returning to a realistic vision of how long it takes to fix a sizable set of economic problems that took at least three full presidential terms...

I just recived this via freepmail. Evidently the webmaster's made a mistake and needs to correct this. Milhous Opus / R.I.P. From Milhous2 | 09/26/2006 2:46:53 PM CDT new Greetings FRiends. Milhous here under a different name. Allow me to begin my opus by thanking everybody for the things you taught me about critical thinking, politics, and human nature during the past couple of years. Last Sunday without warning FR abruptly banned me with "reason: troll". A ban possibly caused by my deletion of a few of my older posts in an attempt to improve my own Signal-to-Noise Ratio on...