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Posted on 08/20/2005 3:11:55 PM PDT by Crackingham
Richard Nixon once gave me a lesson in the politics of war.
Howell Raines, then the Washington bureau chief for The Times, took some reporters to meet Mr. Nixon right before the 1992 New Hampshire primary. The deposed president had requested that Howell bring along only reporters who were too young to have covered Watergate, so we tried to express an excess of Juvenalia spirit.
Before the first vote of '92 was cast, Mr. Nixon laid out, state by state, how Bill Clinton, who was not even a sure bet for the Democratic nomination at that point, was going to defeat George Bush.
If, Mr. Nixon said, Bill could keep a lid on Hillary (who had worked on the House Judiciary Committee looking into the Nixon impeachment), he'd have it made.
"If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent, it makes the husband look like a wimp," he said.
In his jaundiced view, the first President Bush had squandered his best re-election card: if the Persian Gulf war had still been going on, Mr. Bush could have been benefiting from that.
"We had a lot of success with that in 1972," Mr. Nixon told us, with that famously uneasy baring of teeth that passed for a smile.
Was he actually admitting what all the paranoid liberals had been yelping about 20 years earlier - that he had prolonged the Vietnam War so he could get re-elected?
Bush Senior made some Republicans worry that he left Iraq too soon. Bush Junior is making some Republicans worry that he is staying in Iraq too long.
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Bush Senior made some Republicans worry that he left Iraq too soon. Bush Junior is making some Republicans worry that he is staying in Iraq too long.
Michael obviously didn't stay in long enough.
If its a Dowd column, its a bitter hag farting her thoughts out of a constipated mind!
After a few minutes I noticed she was sitting on a television, and on that TV screen is undoubtably the closing credits of the Tiny Toons show.
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Like taking a vinegar and arsenic cocktail.
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That is the air sucking through that empty blob that's setting on Dowd's shoulders.
It's a wind tunnel effect. Goes in one ear and sucked out the other. Nothing of substance in between to slow it down.
I... I can't stand the Dowd columns... but I love the Zeta Jones pics... I'm so confused!
That sound is the sound of a left hand clapping...in a forest...in another dimension...
I believe posting Maureen Dowd columns is a form of masochism. I never read them.
Well, you don't have to READ the column, you only have to look at the pictures on the thread !
Okay, you've convinced me. Keep posting Dowd columns.
DAY-UM!
But, uh, I only read Dowd threads for the articles.
Can the Hildabeast keep *Bubba zipped up?
The only reason that the American public might be a bit nervous about the war on terror in Iraq is because the leftists keep reporting only negative things. There is much good that we do not hear about if we just rely on those MSM mouthpieces of the rats. We need to finish this, and then move on to Syria and Iran.
In his jaundiced view, the first President Bush had squandered his best re-election card: if the Persian Gulf war had still been going on, Mr. Bush could have been benefiting from that.
"We had a lot of success with that in 1972," Mr. Nixon told us, with that famously uneasy baring of teeth that passed for a smile.
This is how you know she's lying. How had LBJ and/or Humphrey done with the continuation of the war in 1968? How had Truman/ Stevenson done with the continuation of the Korean War in '52? Nixon would have factored these precedents and not have risked continuing the war for political gain.
My (rather crude) guess? The crinkling sound of vaginal drying.
Had Bush 1 gone on in Iraq, the leftists would have had a cow! That was not the objective of the allies either. A lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here.
No.
Baby got back. ;O)
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