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2011-05-16 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 ITALY is repor giving Uncle Muammar untl the EOM MAY 2011 to agree to a [face-saving] exit = truce deal wid the Coalition.

[Infamous "...Or Else" here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-16 01:14|| 2011-05-16 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Anybody remember a guy named Spiro Agnew? And Nixon, wasnt there a guy named Nixon who had to get on a helicopter eventually, or something?

I loved the movie of it too. Subtle drum roll music and Alexander Haig carrying a briefcase walks through an empty White House with nuthin' but cigarette butts on the floor, a resignation paper in his folio, down halls ( drums echoing his heels as he paces the dim empty corridors of power)...up the stairs. A pause before the door...ominous , the drums fall silent and then Haig opens the door( whatever happened to Haig anyway, I mean AFTER he ran the concentration Camps in VietNam and the Tiger Pits for Grandma and the kids?).

Haig opens the door and Nixon is on his hands and knees crawling on the floor under his desk looking for his spilled prescription of Valium and playing Victory at Sea at the top of the sound scale. Unshaven and his eyes unfocused. Sign here. Leads Nixon away by the hand.

Oh, I remember they rewarded Haig for doing "anything" in Vietnam by making him White House Chief of Staff. Even Reagan had a use for a man who would do "anything".

Not that Kadaffy or Haig or Nixon...or even a man of such credentials as Spiro Agnew should be spoken of in the same breath.... but you ask yourself questions like why do men who get to the top of the political scale always seem to be men who will do "anything"? And there is no doubt anywhere that Kadaffy is a man who literally will do ANYTHING to stay in power. He isnt going to "step down" , kiddies.....he's going to have to be knocked off. It isnt going to be "negotiated".

Betcha',.... but we dont want to talk about all that nasty stuff about shooting heads of state tap tap. More Tea?

Posted by de Medici3489 2011-05-16 05:44|| 2011-05-16 05:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn, I hate it when people talk about Nixon that way. You like Obama better?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-16 12:28|| 2011-05-16 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Nixon, Obama; what's the difference?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 12:54|| 2011-05-16 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't believe it was Nixon's intention to lead us into socialism.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-16 13:44|| 2011-05-16 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 And that's just for starters.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-16 13:45|| 2011-05-16 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't believe it was Nixon's intention to lead us into socialism.

I don't know what his intentions were. I only know the effect of the policies implemented by his administration. And they had the effect of leading us into socialism and doing substantial harm to our method of governing ourselves.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 15:21|| 2011-05-16 15:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Nixon made the mistake of allowing his underlings to spy on a political rival to find out what the content of said rival's speeches would be ahead of time. BFD.

Posted by Chris W. 2011-05-16 16:04|| 2011-05-16 16:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Nixon also made the mistakes of abandoning the Bretton Woods Gold Exchange Standard, imposing wage and price controls, recognizing Red China, federal revenue sharing to states, indexation of Social Security, creation of Supplemental Security Income, creating the EPA, the Clean Air Act, OSHA, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, school busing for racial integration, affirmative action, prevented India from fully defeating Pakistan, sponsored detente, diddled over the shape of a conference table while thousands of conscripts died in vain, brought us the first oil crisis, the 55 mph speed limit, gas lines like we've never seen since, almost became the second president impeached and instead became the first to resign, appointed Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun,and Gerald Ford, paving the way for James Earl Carter to win the presidency.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 16:32|| 2011-05-16 16:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Nixon also...

Yeah, but what about the aqueduct?

(no, not a Nixion fan. Just suffering from poor impulse control)

Posted by SteveS 2011-05-16 17:20|| 2011-05-16 17:20|| Front Page Top

#11 SALT

Detente.

Ended the war in Vietnam. It took him a while but he ended it. It was the donks in Congress who later refused to arm South Vietnam.

Ended the draft. These things take time.

In 1973 when the Israelis got into trouble it was Richard Nixon who flew C-130s full of materiel into the war zone to rearm them. Would Obama do that? We just don't know, do we?

May have embellished affirmative action but that was really LBJ's baby. If you wanna talk about flawed characters, warmongers and crooks let's talk about LBJ and his predecessor JFK.

EPA may be a weapon against business in the hands of Obama but at the time I think we needed it. Call me a tree hugger if you want. But the air at that time in southern California was literally sickening. It's better now. These days I enjoy watching the pelicans fly over the waves. In the early 1970s there weren't many of them left.

As for China, recognizing the fact that they exist is one thing. Allowing them to dump their plastic crap in our country is a whole other thing and that came later as did borrowing trillions of dollars from them.

There's no getting around the fact that Nixon was a flawed character. But as bad as things were back then I felt safer with him in the White House than I do now.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-16 19:05|| 2011-05-16 19:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, and I liked Gerald Ford too.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-16 19:13|| 2011-05-16 19:13|| Front Page Top

#13 But the point is, what does de Medici3489 know about it? I remember all kinds of rabid Nixon haters back in those days. They'd spout all kinds of bullshit when the didn't have the vaguest clue what the hell they were talking about. I didn't like that war but I didn't much care for the likes of Jane Fonda either.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-16 19:17|| 2011-05-16 19:17|| Front Page Top

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