And my favorite:
Posted on 01/03/2007 3:25:59 PM PST by kellynla
Oh me too.
I'm not particularly a Nixon fan, but let's face it, Watergate was child's play compared to the shenanigans other Presidents did. The Dems were just looking for anything to nail Nixon on.
In Ann's first book, HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, she offers a very detailed compare-and-contrast between the crimes of the Nixon Admin and the throrough-going corruption of the Clintons. It's devastating what BillHilly and Company got away with! They should have been thrown in irons!!!!
And my favorite:
Someone needs to point out that President Gerald R. Ford was more of a man than Ann Coulter ever will be! This hermaphrodite doesn't know a what a real man is if this is how she/he characterizes a strong, but modest man.
Thanks for your service, but I disagree with your analysis on Ford.
He was in no position to do much of anything. The American public would not have gone along with him. The country had been poisoned by liberals, and their planned weakening of the Executive branch was at its apogee.
I agree with your sentiments on how we stabbed the South Vietnamese in the back, but I really do not think Ford could have done anything about it. Congress was in control there.
I had an interesting encounter a few months ago. Over the years, I have interacted every so often with a Vietnamese guy who is an equipment repairman. I admit, I never liked him much. He is very difficult to understand, can be really brusque and was just generally, in my opinion, a pain in the ass.
I had to spend about half a day working a problem with him, and since there was a lot of dead time in the process, we began chatting on a personal level to kill time, something we had never done before.
Turned out, he was a captain of a ship in the South Vietnamese Navy. As I got him to open up, he told me about his experiences being "re-educated". His eyes got a far off look, and after a distracted, long pause, he said in a very faint voice "Sometimes I cannot believe what I went through. It seems like it was all a dream."
He escaped after (I think he said) five years, made his way to the coast and stole a small open boat. He spent 10 days on the open ocean in the South China Sea. He eventually made it to another country, and then to the USA.
I have ALWAYS been ashamed of what we did to our allies. But seeing it plainly visible on this guy's face was painful to me. I told him I hated what the USA had done to him, and people like him.
Now, when I see him, he gives me a big, wide grin, a wave and a greeting. The contrast in this man, just from ME knowing what he did is astounding. This from a guy who never, ever betrayed even a smidgen of emotion before.
In a way, I have a feeling I helped him somehow.
And I am glad that our country has seen fit to give you, and people like you the respect and recognition you greatly deserve for serving in that conflict.
John Fking Kerry not withstanding!
Yours was a post worth reading. Thank you, and tell that man from me that I'm glad he's an American.
I was sitting in an all night poker game with a young guy named J*** G****, a writer, when he got a phone call from the McGovern people, I think, to come and "cover" the story of Watergate. None of us knew what it was at the time, but, looking back....
Ann Coulter is my next wife--that is if Laura Bush rejects me.
E.g., Filegate. Hundreds of counts of the felony that put Chuck Colson in the slammer for a year.
"Now, there's a stretch, even from Miz Kolter."
I think the point is, by today's standards, Watergate is no more a crime then being impeached and disbarred for lying to the nation about an affair with an intern and trying to cover it up by bombing empty tents after telegraphing your intentions to the enemy.
And then the NY Times calls you a courageous leader.
Now here is proof that Evolution is true: Monkey intellect.
...This hermaphrodite doesn't know a what a real man ...
Oh, a real intellectual, we don't have many of those here! Can you please give us more of your wisdom, please please!
I had to apologize to an Iraqi shiite once. I am glad you were able to reach out to him.
My point about Ford is that he didn't TRY. Do I think he could have gotten something done? Yeah, I do. The American people woukld have coughed up aid - it was only money, not U.S troops. But he didn't. My opinion? Ford had been an insider for so long, he couldn't work any other way.
And I still think of the ARVNs I was training, and wondering what happened to them.
Ping ....... ovuh.
Yeah. We stabbed them pretty good too, just from incompetence and miscommunciation.
My international regrets as an American:
1) Treatment of the Nationalist Chinese after WWII
I know they were corrupt as the day is long, but...they didn't kill something like 35 million of their own people
2) Bay of Pigs
Spineless stupidity
3) South Vietnam
Nuff said
4) Shah of Iran
The height of the idiocy, pettiness and stupid misguided righteousness of Jimmy Carter.
5) Shiites in southern Iraq after GW1
That was just ineptness on our part, and lack of thinking things through. I certainly don't think we wanted that to happen to them.
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