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Scruffy Rumbler

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13. Then Gerald Ford pardoned him.

Reply to ColesCountyDem (Reply #12)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 10:39 PM

Dec 2014

My father had me sit and watch the whole resignation and the pardoning events. He was so angry about Watergate. He said Gerald Ford's pardoning of Nixon would allow for greater misdeeds by the Republicans in the coming years.

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It's going to happen again [View all] neverforget Dec 2014 OP

What stopped them last time? JoePhilly Dec 2014 #1

Nixon was never impeached Fumesucker Dec 2014 #2

You're correct. ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #12

Then Gerald Ford pardoned him. Scruffy Rumbler Dec 2014 #13

My Dad said virtually the same thing. ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #21

Same here. Dad felt 'Tricky Dick' was a continuation of dirty politics. Scruffy Rumbler Dec 2014 #24

Dad was a doctor and served for 4 decades as a "coroner's physician" here in IL. ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #27

That's right. Nixon was never impeached. He Resigned and then that MF Ford PARDONED him. 2banon Dec 2014 #17

I agree. n/t ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #22

Well what do you expect? Accuracy? Truth? Rex Dec 2014 #32

I know doing nothing neverforget Dec 2014 #5

Did I say do nothing? JoePhilly Dec 2014 #25

you said neverforget Dec 2014 #28

I want them to be punnished, because the deserve to be punnished. JoePhilly Dec 2014 #30

Spot on. Rex Dec 2014 #33

Don't reward people for bad conduct rock Dec 2014 #3

"I'd do it again in a minute" Faryn Balyncd Dec 2014 #4

America's Hermann Goering nilesobek Dec 2014 #16

That miserable excuse for human being JEB Dec 2014 #18

Yes he is. neverforget Dec 2014 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Dec 2014 #6

Respectfully disagree with Joe(Philly) FairWinds Dec 2014 #7

"Versch�rfte Vernehmung" JeffHead Dec 2014 #8

Current CIA Director John Brennan used the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques neverforget Dec 2014 #42

WOW humbled_opinion Dec 2014 #9

So we don't prosecute because Obama could be prosecuted for something too? neverforget Dec 2014 #11

If that isn't the reason then humbled_opinion Dec 2014 #14

That shouldn't be the reason neverforget Dec 2014 #19

Woo? adieu Dec 2014 #10

Former co-worker of mine went to grade school with Yoo. neverforget Dec 2014 #20

I have no use for Yoo former9thward Dec 2014 #35

I too went to school with Yoo. We were partnered up in gym class. Glassunion Dec 2014 #36

All war is a form torture for people getting hurt. nt valerief Dec 2014 #15

There IS an alternative. . . DinahMoeHum Dec 2014 #26

Charging all of them with war crimes is the only way to put an end to this in the future. Cleita Dec 2014 #29

The fan club doesn't want the president to do anything to anger the republicans Doctor_J Dec 2014 #31

Well you see, throwing a rich person in jail won't deter them from commiting crime in the future Rex Dec 2014 #34

they twist themselves into pretzels with the ridiculous excuses Skittles Dec 2014 #39

oh fuck the Tiger Beat Club Skittles Dec 2014 #38

The irony is that if the president had prosecuted Bush & Cheney in 2009, not only would Doctor_J Dec 2014 #41

DAMN RIGHT Skittles Dec 2014 #43

I thought you were referring to Wall Street thieves Skittles Dec 2014 #37

Definitely add them to the list to be prosecuted neverforget Dec 2014 #40