...If only I hadn't started making that comparison three years ago and many times since (first set of links below). In short, Obama's the most Nixonian president since ol' Tricky Dick himself. I knew that early on in his presidency, in 2009, when Obama's White House encouraged American citizens to rat out any fellow citizen having something "fishy" to say about the proposed Obamacare monstrosity -- not to mention talk of "enemies" and "enemies lists" and various other statements and activities since then that have been only too reminiscent of the disgraced 37th President of the United States (see links).
If anything, Obama's highly questionable assertion of executive privilege yesterday to protect disgraceful Attorney General Eric Holder (second set of links below) is one of the weaker, more pedestrian comparisons that one might make between Obama and Nixon -- although, it does make for a great comparison between Obama and his equally hapless and destructive predecessor, George W. Bush, who (like Nixon and other presidents) also politically seized upon the privilege to try to hide things from the American people.
So I'm sorry, but a day late and a dollar short with the Nixon comparisons, you deranged right-wing gop-er freaks. And for Sagan's sake, get your own damn material!
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2010/10/president-nixon-rears-his-ugly-head-yet.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-threatens-dem-congressman-dont.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009/08/theres-really-no-need-to-put-me-on.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2011/03/obamas-minions-at-media-matters-go.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2010/10/karl-rove-accuses-obama-administration.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-am-not-ideologue-crows-obama-today.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2011/10/number-nine-number-nine-number-nine.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/40-years-resurgence-presidential-powers/story?id=16598194#.T-KHAhee5rg
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-evokes-memories-of-watergate-by-invoking-executive-privilege
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/us/obama-claims-executive-privilege-in-gun-case.html?_r=1
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Postscript: Please let me know thoughts, but I'm kind of liking my recent balance between the political crap and the more-entertaining shit. I've been trying to make it, if not 50/50, then at least approaching 60/40 (with the political sleaze getting the 40% short-change, and deservedly so).
ReplyDeleteI like all your stuff Rager! I'm not as likely to comment on the political stuff, because, I'm not as well spoken as you. I don't want to embarrass myself =)
ReplyDeleteYou could never embarrass yourself nearly as much as the partisan hacks on both sides do on a daily basis with the crazy things they say.
ReplyDeleteOh, sure I could! You underestimate my embarrassing qualities, Sir =)
ReplyDeleteWell I've never known you to be prone to calling anyone who disagrees with you the new Hitler, the new Stalin, a rabid racist, some hobophobic slur, and/or any other vile thing that some subhuman slime might spout to someone he/she's never even met. That's the world of the partisan Zombie, the loony leftist 20 percenter, and the deranged right-winger. They're embarrassing to the human race. You could never even approach those skunks in that regard -- you don't have it in ya.
ReplyDeleteYou're right....I'm a pleaser at heart, I just want everyone to be happy. Annoying to most people, but I'm okay with that =)
ReplyDeleteI just wish there was a way for BOTH the gopers and democrat party to lose in any given election. That'd make them sad, me happy.
ReplyDeleteThat would make 2 happy people, you and me!
ReplyDeleteWell, it would help if we ever had any viable third party or third party candidates. But alas, the two-party system is SO entrenched in our political culture. Even the Brits, from whom we took that model, have had a viable third party in recent years! I think our rotten system is beyond change or reform. Which only leaves rebelling against it. Which I promise to do until the day they stick my sorry ass 9 feet under. (The normal 6 ain't gonna work for me).
ReplyDeleteOooh, zombie-town! They're gonna have to bury you deep! Just don't go dyin' on me for at least another 50-ish years, okay??
ReplyDeleteAs the old-timers often say, when your time's up, that's it. No one knows when. But I CAN promise that I will never turn into one of these zombies who've been cropping up so much in the news lately -- trying to eat people after getting high on bath salts. Those stories have been so disgusting, even I won't touch them.
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