Comments on: Nixon and Obama: Soul Brothers?

By: Bob R. Bennett

Bob R. Bennett — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:36:17 +0000

I admire Mr. Buchanan and support his ideals of non-interventionism and protecting the American market for American companies.

But with President Nixon, Mr. Buchanan has a blind spot. Does he not remember that President Nixon left office because of looming impeachment?

President Nixon broke the laws — a lot of them. You can read the articles of impeachment against him here — http://watergate.info/impeachment/impeachment-articles.shtml.

By: MainStreet

MainStreet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:10:48 +0000

Nixon was a very complex individual with many faults, but he accomplished quite a bit during his time in office.

Obama has done nada and we still know nothing of the man’s moral compass. From what we have seen, there is more to worry about than I had hoped. The verdict is still out, but our freedom’s are at stake. It is time for the MSM to find out who we really have at the helm and why, in everything he has tried to do, he brings us deeper in debt and our country closer to economic ruin.

By: ThatOneGuy

ThatOneGuy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:45:00 +0000

Russel, on October 24th, 2009 at 12:29 am Said:
If all Obama has done is have a beer summit and win a Nobel prize, why is the Right mounting the barricades?

I think part of the reason he has accomplished so little of what he wants to do is BECAUSE the right has mounted such a counteroffensive. That’s not to say every person on the right is against fixing the healthcare system, but that they disagree with the ways Obama and Congress want to go about fixing it. Ridiculous spending (since Clinton, and obviously including Bush) have put us down a terrible path, and it seems that the Democrats’ answer is to spend further.

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:34:12 +0000

what have we come to when nixon is preferable to obama?

We must compare only what we KNEW about Nixon then, because it is only the public Obama we know now. The true morality of Obama is unknown.

“I wonder what the Americans would do if they ever had a REAL presidential scandal???”
Adam: Go to youtube and search for “JFKll: The Bush Connection” It is a multipart series that lays out the scandal that never was. The real scandal is the mainstream media.

By: MattSwartz

MattSwartz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:19 +0000

I’d guess that a lot of Nixon’s outrageous comments (“list of Jews”, etc.) were not really statements about what he thought so much as strategic attempts to control the direction of conversations by keeping people off guard. As such, I think they have more in common with LBJ’s making the Cabinet follow him into the bathroom than with real racism.

Nixon was crazy, but he was crazy like a fox. Some of what he did was evil, but that hardly makes him unique among American presidents.

By: ¡™£¢∞§

¡™£¢∞§ — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:26:08 +0000

my lord,

what have we come to when nixon is preferable to obama?

By: Thomas O. Meehan

Thomas O. Meehan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:26:11 +0000

Re Nixon, Richard Posner wrote, “I haven’t heard of any other president who asked for a list of Jews to fire….”

Henry Kissinger, Herb Stein, Myron Magnet and others apparently didn’t seem Jewish to Nixon. Hmmmm, Nixon made anti-semitic comments and had grievances regarding American Jews, but if he was an anti-Semite, he was a rather inconsistent one. Of course you did not formally accuse him of antisemitism. But that does seem to be implicit in your sentence.

Regarding the murder of Black “Activists,” The Black Panthers were engaging in an armed insurrection against the government and for that matter, the white population of our country. They played rough and they got what was coming to them.

Like most actual conservatives, I recognize the many faults of President Nixon. He was a deeply flawed and these flaws were reflected in his bad choices as a leader. But was he a “monster?”

By: Richard Posner

Richard Posner — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:57:17 +0000

Every president has enemies, but most have not codified them into a list for specific actions against them by the I.R.S. and extra-legal operatives. Many presidents have come into office in troubled times, but not all of them allowed federal police offcials to authorise the out-right murder of activists scary (that is to say, black) enough that most of America would go along with them. All presidents seek to expand their power and try to spend as they will, but most have not mmade, as a matter of policy, the claim that he or she has the right to avoid spending moneys they desire not to do, regardless of the will of Congress.

I haven’t heard of any other president who asked for a list of Jews to fire….

Many presidents have had drug problems—usually alcohol, but J.F.K. appears to have gone differently as well; I don’t know how many spent a good chunk of the time popping illegally-obtained tranquilisers and washed them down with hard liquor. My guess is that they dampened-down the man’s great self-hatred and feelings of inferiority, whilst leaving alone his abiding hatred for a good chunk of everyone else.

Face it, Pat, you worked for a monster.

I just wish that Obama were as Left on health-care as was Nixon.

By: Russel

Russel — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:29:17 +0000

If all Obama has done is have a beer summit and win a Nobel prize, why is the Right mounting the barricades?

By: Adam Rurik

Adam Rurik — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:21:42 +0000

You know, I was only ten years old when I saw, on the black-and-white TV that my father refused to replace, John Dean describing a “cancer on the Presidency.” The message coming out of the CBC and CTV was that the President was a “bad man,” “dangerous,” “a criminal.”

Then, as a teenager, I learned the actual DETAILS of the Watergate affair, and, I swear to God, my very first thought was, “I wonder what the Americans would do if they ever had a REAL presidential scandal???”