Subj : Impeach the President To : LEE LOFASO From : BOB KLAHN Date : Sun Jan 11 2015 00:03:00 ... LL> Republicans are blaming it all on Clinton. I am not making LL> this up. I'll have to find the url again for the article, LL> but they put the blame squarely on Clinton. LL> Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was the brains behind getting LL> rid of Richard M. Nixon. And now Republicans want their LL> revenge. Hillary was a nobody backstage worker. Republicans want to paint her as the lead, to shore up their base. Hillary would like to claim the glory for removing a corrupt president. Neither is true. ... LL>>> with Gerald Ford losing a very close race to Jimmy Carter. BK>> I blame the pardon for that. LL> Gerald Ford made a deal with Rihard Nixon in order to become LL> Vice President. We all know what that deal was. Upon LL> becoming President, Ford was to grant Nixon a full pardon LL> for all crimes committed. Which is exactly what Ford did. I doubt that very much. Ford owed Nixon nothing. He was persuaded it was the best thing for the country. He believed the lie. ... LL> Richard Nixon had some dirt on Gerald Ford. He would not LL> have appointed Ford as vice president unless he had an LL> insurance card. I doubt that very much. Nixon was dishonest, but not really good at it. ... LL> President Ford's mistake was telling the American people LL> that he had not made a deal with Nixon. Ford's mistake was in granting the pardon. LL> You see, the American people would have gotten mad at him, LL> but plainly understood, if Ford had said he made a deal with LL> Nixon so that he could become President. Whether it was LL> true or not was irrelevant. It is what the American people LL> would have believed. That part is true. LL> When Nixon resigned from office, people were still talking LL> about Nixon. Nobody cared about Ford. Nobody was talking LL> about Ford as president or anything else. It was all about LL> Nixon, and only Nixon. And Ford was the hero who saved us from Nixon. I am convinced Ford could have won the election if he hadn't pardoned Nixon. He was much better known than Carter, much more qualified, and I would have voted for him. That was back in the days when we had decent republicans. LL> President Ford had to do something to change the subject. LL> To do that, he had two choices - He didn't need to change the subject, he had a free ride into re-election. ... LL>>> That was back in 1976, when politicians still had brains. BK>> Oh, you already made that point. LL> Except for Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms. LL> But they were born that way, kind of like Lady GaGa. Don't insult Lady GaGa that way. Ok, I don't know anything about Lady GaGa, but I'll bet you insulted her. LL>>> Fast forward to 2000, the beginning of the end of politics. BK>> I think the Nixon pardon was. It was the start on the downhill BK>> slope. LL> Richard Nixon was a terrible president. Gerald Ford was LL> not much better, given the number of times he used the veto LL> pen. Jimmy Carter was an exceptional leader, having a LL> higher percentage of legislation passed than any president LL> in history, including LBJ. Carter got legislation passed, but he still didn't know how to handle a crises. He was a manager, not a leader. LL> Ronald Reagan was a decent LL> actor, a popular president, but did not accomplish much of LL> anything during his time in office. Other than tripling the national debt, and reversing a decades long decline in the Debt to GDP ratio. LL> Bush41 sought to bring about a "New World Order". Republicans like to pretend that never happened. ... LL> Bill Clinton was the most beloved president LL> of our times, And that irritates the hell out of the right wing. LL> getting along with members of both parties in LL> Congress, and leaving office with the highest popularity LL> rating in American history. Well, first he had to beat the republicans with a rolled up newspaper, but after that... LL> Bush43 managed to mangle the LL> English language in ways unimaginable, and is best LL> forgotten. Not until he goes to prison. LL> Barack Obama is the black man's best friend, LL> and the black man's worst enemy, depending on which version LL> of black history you want to believe. As well as the best candidate we have had on either side in the last two presidential elections. To many that's damning with faint praise, and considering his opponents, I can't say it isn't. LL> And then there is Hillary Rodham Clinton. The 45th LL> President of the United States ... Hillary or any republican will likely go down in history as the last president of the US. ... BK>> He should have finished at least 2 yrs of his second term, but I BK>> don't think resigning would have done that much good, and it BK>> would have encouraged the right to do that over and over. LL> On second thought, Bill Clinton should have run for a third LL> consecutive term, the 22nd Amendement be damned ... Nah, that would be overstaying his welcome. Always leave them wanting more. As a musician you should know that. LL>>> President Gore would easily LL>>> have defeated the Republican upstart, George W. Bush, and LL>>> there would have been no 9-11. BK>> The first part is questionable, but surely possible, the second BK>> could very well have been true. LL> There are rumors that brother Jeb set charges in the WTC LL> Towers which is the real reason they came tumbling down. LL> Or maybe it was brother Neil. Sometimes those conspiracy LL> theories get confusing ... None of the above. They didn't need to, they were just so incompetent that the would never pull it off, and too stupid to prevent it. LL>>> We all know what happened next. Al Gore won the presidency, LL>>> but was never allowed to hold his properly elected office. BK>> Yep. Which could possibly be the fatal blow to this country. LL> Nah. Al Gore says it will be abrupt climate change (global LL> warming). And he might very well be right. I cannot LL> imagine Republicans ever running out of hot air. Can you? Well, this country may fall long before climate change brings it down. One more republican president, either Romney or Jeb, could insure that. Climate change will do the rest in the long run, unless it is reversed by the drastic reduction in use of fossile fuel due to the collapse of the world's economy under Mitt or Jeb. ... BK>> He also suffers from foot in mouth disease. Sad. LL> All the more reason for Republicans NOT to impeach Obama ... All the more reason for Republicans to try to get rid of Obama. Obama is far more competent than any of his presumed successors. BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn .... Schizofrenia:You hear what others don't hear. 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