LOL when the racist SOB Nixon receives more praise from some than Barack Obama...

[Drunken Irishman]

I really couldn't fucking make this shit up.

[Scootaloo]

1. From whom?

[Mojorabbit]

2. It is the latest meme from a certain group here. nt

[Scootaloo]

5. Is it? From whom?

[99th_Monkey]

19. "a certain group"?

huh?

That could not be any more vague.

[AgingAmerican]

36. It comes from the Obama

'Nixon was more liberal,' Obama says

[RobertEarl]

3. The 'what got done' comparisons are valid

Besides, Obama did express some admiration for Raygun.

Still, Obama is our responsibility, and it is a good thing some of us can still look at politics objectively.

[LawDeeDah]

8. It was NOT admiration. Inform yourself

please.
and don't drag Hillary Clinton's misinformation from the primaries on this.

good gawd. has everyone gone completely daft.

[bravenak]

15. Yes. Everyone has gone daft.nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Oh,...sorry, I thought that was "draft"...

Nevermind.

[onenote]

38. Not really.

Most of what Obama has gotten done, Nixon wouldn't have tried.

Expansion of protections of wilderness areas and adoption of fuel standards.
Appointment of more women and minorities to the federal judiciary (not hard to top Nixon who didn't appoint a single woman to the Judiciary and only 7 or 8 African Americans).
Expansion of rights for gay Americans working for Federal government.
Expanded funding for Violence Against Women Act.
Lily Ledbetter fair pay act.
Kagan and Sotomayor on the Supreme Court (Nixon: no women out of four appointees, one of whom was William Rehnquist).

The list could go on for a long time.

[bravenak]

4. You shoulda seen it.

It was marvelous. Left out all of his bad points and nearly invented some good points for him. It was an Alternative History Novel.

[Ykcutnek]

12. Like something David Barton would write. nt

[bravenak]

14. Exactly. Very sad show that was.nt

[Cha]

6. What's new? "Obama should resign.. right fucking now" On the election losses.. "Obama wanted

this to happen.." and lots of recs too.. two of the most stupid conspiracies I've seen on DU.

It shows they don't know shite from shinola.

[sheshe2]

10. I don't think I want to know!

No clue what you are referring to, however I don't give a damn to the hair on fire conspiracies theories that are being spouted today.

Fuck them all Cha! The Black Presidents Sucks! There is nothing that man can do or say that will ever be right and I am appalled at the lack of support for him on a Democratic Board.

Honey I am so damn tired!

[Cha]

11. Omz.. sheshe.. "Shinola" is

an old Shoe Polish brand back in the day.. that just popped into me 'ead! Oh, and it was a quite well known expression.. must not have made it back East.

Get a good rest tonight, sweetie!

[mopinko]

30. one of my dad's fave expressions.

i still use it, tho i doubt anyone knows what i am talking about.

[Cha]

40. LOL.. I thought everyone knew..

dated myself?! I used "icebox" for "fridge" for like forever, 'cause.. my Mom.

I had to look it up because I don't remember where the heck I got it from ..



snip//

Shinola was immortalized in colloquial English by the phrase "You don't know shit from Shinola" which first became widely popular during World War II.[29]

In the 1979 film comedy The Jerk, the character Navin R. Johnson (played by Steve Martin) is tested by "Daddy" (Richard Ward) on whether he knows the difference between shit and Shinola before leaving home.

Ween released a 2005 compilation album titled, Shinola, Vol. 1 that plays on the colloquial phrase mentioned above.

Dolly Parton wrote the song "Shinola" - which also uses a lyric that plays on the colloqial phrase - for her 2008 Backwoods Barbie album.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinola

Mo

[madokie]

45. Up to about the first grade in school

we had an ice box then REC came to the neighborhood with a power line and we upgraded to a single light in each room and and soon after a refrigerator in the kitchen.
I wish we still had the old ice box.

[Cha]

48. Sweet memories, Mo!

[madokie]

49. Yes for sure

[LadyHawkAZ]

37. And then "Why didn't our candidates get behind Obama???"

It's surreal.

[Cha]

58. It's only the..

LadyHawkAZ

[Andy823]

54. It's been going on since last Tuesday

This weekend was one "bash Obama" thread after another, pure BS from the same old crowd, plus a whole lot to new "bashers" that seem to be moving in. It's like they are so giddy that we lost because now they can blame that on Obama also! Most be hard being so damned negative all the time, but then again they seem to love the "doom and gloom".

[Cha]

55. HI HO HI HO HI HO.. it's off to

bash the President! think they smell blood in the water a-gain.



"It's like they are so giddy that we lost because now they can blame that on Obama also!"

Andy

[lovemydog]

57. They sure seem eager to throw him under the proverbial bus.

Many are quick to condemn President Obama. I'm not one of them. When I voted for him both times I said I'd have his back. I do. The willingness of others who claim to have voted for him to throw him under the bus is a reflection of their spines. Not of mine.

I am to the left of President Obama. I don't believe anyone else who could have gotten elected could be doing better than the job he has been doing. If it were me as President I'd have been characterized as a raving lunatic by now, lol.

[Half-Century Man]

7. LOL?

More like VID (vomit in disgust).

[LawDeeDah]

9. We have entered Disgustingest zone.

nutters.

[Ykcutnek]

13. I think those assholes were channeling their inner David Barton.

In fact, some of his cleverly-binded toilet paper is probably on their night stand.

[Hekate]

17. We have entered.... The Twilight Zone

no other explanation

[Cha]

20. The question is, Hekate, how the hell do we

get out?!

[Hekate]

43. I wish I knew, Cha. I wish I knew. nt

[Cha]

47. We'll find a way.. just looks impossible right now.

[BlueMTexpat]

18. Not sure what this is about

because I haven't spent too much time here lately.

But ANYONE on DU who praises Nixon over Obama is no Dem I know ... or ever want to.

I was there when Nixon was Veep, when he ran against Kennedy (and lost!!!!), against Humphrey and against McGovern (where he won ), leaving Democratic devastation in his wake and laying the groundwork for the dysfunctional USA of today. I once had an opportunity to meet him in person ... and refused to do so.

He was one of the biggest obstacles to US recognition of so-called "Red" China for decades. It is a travesty that he was actually the one under whom relations between our two countries improved.

It was also on his watch that the Chicago School "tested" its cockamamie theories in South America - check out Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine for one. There are so many other reasons why I still loathe and detest Nixon that if I continued, this could become a magnum opus.

[Cha]

23. Here's what it's about, BMTexpat..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5800217

And, another one..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5794918

Here it is and I did comment on it..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5794065

[Doctor_J]

32. I clicked on all of those and didn't see any praise for Nixon, let alone calling him "better than

Obama". Is this some sort of derangement syndrome?

[Vattel]

51. It sure is. ODS often leads to paranoid delusions of this sort.

[BlueMTexpat]

63. Thanks, Cha, for catching me up.

As to the last one, while I agree that there were some progressive achievements that took place while Nixon was President, a LOT of the credit for those has to do with the fact that Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Presidents_and_control_of_Congress

Most of those Democrats were VERY progressive and popular Democrats who were not afraid to champion progressive causes. They also had a base who supported them through thick and thin for the most part.

[Cha]

64. Sounds divine!

"Most of those Democrats were VERY progressive and popular Democrats who were not afraid to champion progressive causes. They also had a base who supported them through thick and thin for the most part"

BlueMTexpat

[BlueMTexpat]

65. Right back atcha! :)

[joshcryer]

21. Link?

Not that I would find it particularly surprising.

[Cha]

22. I saw it last night or the night before, Josh.. I didn't comment on it.. but, here's another one

that counteracts the Praise of Nixon.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5800217

And, another one..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5794918

Here it is and I did comment on it..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5794065

[joshcryer]

24. Thanks, that last link seems to be it.

Silly delusional postings. Reminds me of the pro-Goldwater posters here...

[redgreenandblue]

25. Except that no one on DU praised Nixon. nt

[Doctor_J]

33. Well, there's that

But those with Obama Defense Syndrome prefer rec's and outrage to facts. And actually the president himself did praise Nixon in a back-handed way - "Nixon was more liberal than I am"

[Capt. Obvious]

26. Stay out of the Richard Nixon group then

It's a protected group.

[spanone]

27. if you lived thru nixon, you know what a complete shit he was

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. The haters are in overdrive

They'll wear themselves out again soon enough.

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. You also missed the awesome "I hope Obama is successfully impeached" post from yesterday

That was pure gold.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014941480

[Hekate]

50. The one where the OP insisted Obama should resign in advance of his inevitable impeachment was...

....pretty awesome in itself. It's still there -- Nov. 4 by CK_John.

(Once again I have to apologize for the limitations of my iPad. It's just not a computer like I'm used to. Instead of a full link at the top of the page, all I have is "democraticunderground.com". So, no link for you!)

[alcibiades_mystery]

53. That was a doozy, but typical of the

fairly sad symptoms exhibited by that particular poster.

[Orsino]

31. ...you know the two parties have "evolved" nearly beyond recognition.

But I eagerly await a Democratic bill to restore a strong Welfare system.

[GeorgeGist]

34. That was Obama doing the praising.

"You know, the truth of the matter is, is that when you look at some of my policies, in a lot of ways, Richard Nixon was more — more liberal than I was," Obama.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

42. Straight from the horse's mouth.

It'll be ignored... or spun into oblivion.

[840high]

60. Some on DU will ignore this.

[NYC Liberal]

62. Nixon was a right-wing bigoted, authoritarian criminal piece of shit. Obama is wrong.

[mcar]

35. And they will cherry pick Obama and Nixon statements

to "prove" their point.

I've been here since 2002. Joined after 9/11 desperately seeking like minded people who saw what was happening to this country.

It's almost surreal here now.

[Hekate]

44. Surreal is right

But the "it never happened on DU" deniers are out in force, so I guess it's now a case of Consensus Surrealism.

[mcar]

52. Too true Hekate

I said it but you can't prove that I said it is de riguer here nowadays.

[alarimer]

39. Obama himself admitted it.

Ignorance is convenient.

[Cha]

41. He didn't "admit" anything.. he's pointing out what those Presidents have achieved and ODSers

weren't raging on them for being "socialists"..

"Ignorance is convenient"

[Rex]

46. He said he felt that way, so what. He can have his opinion

he said on some policies he was to the right of Richard Nixon. Personally I don't believe that for a second, but the POTUS is entitled to believe what he wants about him self. Just like everyone else. My personal opinion is that Obama is nothing like Tricky Dick.

George Bush probably thinks he is a great artist, doesn't mean that's true.

[SidDithers]

56. As I said in one of the 'Nixon is AWESOME!' threads...

DU has lost its fucking mind.

Or maybe a more accurate statement might be: DU has lost its way.

Sid

[WorseBeforeBetter]

59. But you are making shit up.

No one is offering up "more praise" of Nixon than Obama. But praise where it's due, whether Nixon (EPA) or Obama (The List^TM). And Obama himself praised Nixon for clean air and water. Are those bad things in BOG-land?

[840high]

61. Thank you for sanity.

[baldguy]

66. And the people promoting the "Obama is to the right of Nixon" lie

Are the same people cheerleading for the failure of the Democratic Party. These people are the heirs of Don Segretti and Lee Atwater.

[hobbit709]

67. So stating the FACT that Nixon was to the left of Obama on some things is praising Nixon?

Only an inhabitant of the morass would claim that.

Nixon was a crook, a liar and a traitor to the Constitution but politically he was to the left on some issues.