Posted on 05/15/2013 6:21:30 PM PDT by Starman417
Richard Nixon made a major mistake in the commission of his crimes against the people, he left a trail of incrimination.
Some of us have doubts concerning the intellect of Obama, but it can't be denied, he has the cunning of a street wise criminal. At least he knows how to cover his ass, even if it implies poor leadership and management skills, and that is the major difference between America's most infamous and ignoble, narcissistic, presidential failures.
Obama unleashed his political whores by letting it be known, that the most flagrant and egregious political crimes would not be prosecuted by allowing Attorney General Holder to drop the voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panthers in a case that was already won.
This was the signal to all bureaucrats and Progressive political miscreants: excesses and illegal political activities will not only be tolerated, they will be encouraged, if they are designed to promote the Progressive cause and the Myth of Obama.
The tyranny game was on, media indulged itself as well, but they are private entities who rely on the First Amendment for protection. If they want to write propaganda and pass it off as news, it is their prerogative and it is definitely legal. Unfortunately, for many government employees, who once had the public trust, such poetic license is not legal.
Many of these people may be facing lengthy prison terms for their zeal in the promotion of the Progressive cause, and rightly so, for using the public trust to commit crimes against the people of America is not only a crime, but a betrayal as well.
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Obama makes Nixon look like a choir boy; the difference is that the press went into an all out attack frenzy over Nixon, while they’re constantly bobbing and weaving, shucking and jiving in their 24/7, plus overtime, cover-up for Obama.
Clearly, the Utopian Socialist fantasy dies hard.
LBJ left a trail of corruption as well. Except some of it didn’t come to light until the 1990s when he’d been long dead.
However, if Nixon would have pleaded poor leadership, incompetence, and ignorance, with the proficiency of the Obama Administration, he might have finished his term.
The only thing he could have admitted was that he did not know who were not his friends and he hated the dam commies.
I was in my early 20s during Watergate, and I remember that the news media was on Nixon 24/7.
Nixon’s biggest mistake was in keeping the tapes.
Why he didn’t destroy them has always been a mystery to me.
I would have destroyed the tapes, told them I destroyed them and dared them to prove what was on them.
Without the tapes they had no case.
We are told that the public would see an impeachment trial as an attempt to overturn the re-election of a popular president.
Yet Nixon swept more states than Obammy did.
1972 Nixon won 49 states
2012 Obama won 26 states
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2012&off=0&elect=0&f=0
LBJ’s tapes were incriminating as well but not released to the public for decades.
JFK’s White House tapes (he had the taping system installed ) were put on 50 year moratorium. Wonder how many of them disappeared in that time?
He died in 1963. Have the tapes been released from his library yet?
Richard Nixon wasn’t impeached. He chose to resign rather than drag the country down in scandal with him the way bill clinton did.
That and Goldwater told him the Senate Republicans were done with him.
Harry Reid on the other hand won’t bail on Obama, because they’re all thugs.
If you want to understand the dynamics that Obama leashed, read Hayek’s “Why the worst get to the top”, chapter 10 of the Road to Serfdom.
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