History repeating itself? (disturbing quote)

[liontamer]

He is the first President to hate the American people and all they stand for. He believes so vibrantly in his own purity, although he has committed crimes which are hideous, that I am bound to conclude that someone told him when he was very young that all serious crime was sexual, that no one could be a criminal who did not commit adultery or masturbate.

He is a useful man in that he has shown us that our Constitution is a defective document, which makes a childlike assumption that we would never elect a President who disliked us so. So we must amend the Constitution in order that we can more easily eject such a person from office and even put him in jail.


Kurt Vonnegut said this in 1976 about Nixon. We don't seem to have come very far.

[AIJ Alom]

1. Wow.

George W Bush = Richard Nixon. No Doubt.

No wonder Arnie was inspired to speak at the RNC. The ghost and reincarnate of his hero commanded it be so.

[ironflange]

15. I don't exactly agree

Nixon was an evil genius. Bunnypants is a befuddled puppet. However, they both surrounded themselves with a similar group of dangerous minions.

[Union Thug]

2. Bush and conservatives in general..

hold the majority of us, the working people of the world, in contempt. They hate us because our basic needs get in the way of their plans for concentrating their wealth. They hate us for daring to demand that public funds are made available to help educate ALL children in this country, and not only their priveleged, spoiled spawn.

I used to be about love and understanding. Now I'm about class war and hatred of the rich. Our interests are mutually exclusive and so long as they continue to stomp on us, I will continue to hate them.

[redqueen]

3. Wish we'd have acted on his suggestion

Not that it would have mattered... with media being so controlled and people so numbed... who would oust him?

[liontamer]

7. how do you think we got ourselves back into the same boat?

Shouldn't we have learned something? Is this a result of all the nixon love after his death?

[KlatooBNikto]

4. Wow! So true of two of the most despicable men ever to grace

American politics.One point, however.While Nixon had a visceral hatred for people born to a higher stature than he came from, e.g.the Kennedys, and tried to overcompensate for his lack of social graces by hobnobbing with the elite, George W.Bush comes from the opposite end of the spectrum.His dislike, nay contempt, for the American people is based on the notion of his exceptionalism.Born to wealth, having outclassed people with far superior intelligence and integrity by using his father's influence, he has naturally come to believe that rules are meant for the common folks.This has had such a powerful hold on his ego he has now come to believe in the Divine Right of Kings,so to speak.

There are two common threads I find absolutely uncanny in their spoken words.Nixon used to compare the American people to children,now so does Bush.Nixon famously said that when the President does it, it means it is not illegal..Bush clearly has the same idea in mind.

Along with the vast material blessings this country has received, it has been this country's singular misfortune to have had men with such small egos who could not put this vast wealth and power to good use.

[lpbk2713]

5. Jail would be too good for this asshole.

Take away his American citizenship. Transfer all his assets to the people who have suffered under him; families of killed and wounded in his illegal war, people who have lost their health insurance and suffered the consequences, people who have lost their jobs and suffered financial ruin, people who have lost their familes due to the stress he has induced. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the misery he has caused. What he has done is, and I honestly believe this, criminal and undefensible.

[liontamer]

13. these are all things that have officially been done to osama binladen

I'm not sure how effective these measures are.

[KurtNYC]

6. The Imperial Presidency is dealt with at length

we must amend the Constitution in order that we can more easily eject such a person from office

The Constitution deals with this issue at length and perhaps more than any other issue it addresses. The forefathers understood very well the possibility of this abuse of power and put many tools into the Constitution to address it. But perhaps they hadn't considered that Congress and the media would be in on the plot to create an Imperial presidency.

[liontamer]

8. I think the problem is the scope necessary to impeach

The system isn't setup as easily as the recall in california. while i don't like the exact mechanism of CA's elections, there would be some advantage if a certain number of signatures could force the bush presidency to fight to continue

[libertad]

9. Kitty Kelley's book says that the Bush's were huge supporters of

Nixon and what Nixon stood for.

[liontamer]

12. so was ben stein's family

as is ben stein himself. Nixon was the standard of corruption when I grew up, yet so many people love him and after his death all was forgiven.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. nixon would have been FUCKING LYNCHED

if he were a dem

[liontamer]

11. or if he'd been caught having sex

illicit sex seems to offend americans more

[zbdent]

14. History repeating itself:

Bush in the White House.

War in Iraq, declared over the year before.

Hurricane battering Florida. Bush declares Florida areas as "Disaster Areas".

Complaints about prominent Democrats "cutting" military funding.

Sound familiar?

Well, let's hope history DOES repeat itself, because in 1992, with the above conditions, Bush lost the election.