"May you live in interesting times"

[MoonRiver]

is an old Chinese curse that definitely reflects this mad, mad, mad, mad world that is election 2004. Between Nader accepting the Reform Party nomination (!!!), AWOL * gaining political points by bashing a decorated war hero through blatant and obvious lies, and the fascist media smiling complacently as our democracy is shredded, I'd say we're living in interesting times. :crazy:

[Poiuyt]

1. Good points

I wonder how many of us who remember Watergate thought we'd see an administration as evil and corrupt as Nixon's. When Jimmy Carter was elected, it seemed like America would be "clean" forever.

[MoonRiver]

2. Another saying is "fish rot from the head".

Our entire corrupt political system is responsible for the nightmare we're now in. Until that is fixed things will probably at best stay the same.

[maine_raptor]

3. AS????????????? WTF??????

Nixon is green with envy over this crew, my friend!

[lapfog_1]

5. You remember the "Doonesbury" strips from that time?

Remember the wall around the white house that kept getting
taller, bigger?

And then the day Nixon resigned and left DC, the wall in the
strip came down and the sun was shining?

That's what it feels like again, maybe even more so.

I also remember that Nixon put the military on alert (Defcon 3?)
the night before the resignation. Rumors were all over the
radio about it... and that part may well be repeated again too.
I only hope that we come through it as well this time.

[maine_raptor]

7. Roger that, but to me the Saturday Night Massacre

was the scariest. Nuclear Alert (toe to toe with Russkies say Slim Pickens would say) October War in the Middle East. Nixon fires the AG, then the asst Ag, and finally got Bork to fire Cox.

John Chancellor on NBC announcing a Constitutional Crisis

Now that was SCARY!!!

[Syrinx]

4. Reform Party nominates Buchanan, then Nader

No inconsistency there at all.

[Tamyrlin79]

6. Nope...

Not when what you are interested in is Reform...