Showing posts with label Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nixon. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Did Trump's Genius Tweet Make Things Worse Or Is It True?
ABC’s Stephanopoulos: Trump’s ‘Stable Genius’ Tweet Like Richard Nixon’s ‘I’m Not a Crook’
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the fallout from Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury,” host George Stephanopoulos said President Donald Trump’s tweet saying he is a “stable genius” was akin to former President Richard Nixon saying “I’m not a crook” during the Watergate scandal.
Panelist Matthew Dowd said, “Fundamentally, the president only made matters worse in what he’s done. All the tweets and everything have basically confirmed everything Michael Wolff said. Everything he has done has confirmed it.”
Stephanopoulos said, “When you hear him put out the tweet, ‘stable genius,’ it’s kinda like Richard Nixon, ‘I’m not a crook.'”
Friday, June 30, 2017
This Is How Patriotic Americans Feel
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By George Roof, Chief Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired)
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Because I am a “lifer” in the military, I’ve seen the impact of a president more than many of you can imagine. I enlisted with President LBJ and saw just what a Democrat clusterflock was all about. I went to Vietnam and saw how we were constantly and incessantly bombarded with micromanagement from Washington that got thousands of military people killed. I sometimes wonder if I’ll get to heaven, but if I go to hell, I’m sure I’ll still be a few hundred floors above that bastard Robert McNamara , LB Johnson, John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and yes, even the “hero” John McCain.
After Johnson “abdicated” rather than having his ass waxed in the next election, I lived through Nixon who was hawkish but allowed the generals (and there WERE a few real generals back then versus now) run the show. Nixon was so out of touch that he never knew North Vietnam was about to surrender when the Paris Accord was presented.
Only God could help us after Gerald Ford was beaten by Jimmy ‘Peanuts’ Carter who’d been funded by Saudi money. The military was turned into Section 8 and even the Whitehouse suffered the austerity.
Then the light began to shine and Ronald Reagan swept into the fray. He not only loved the country and the military, they loved him back. Esprit d’corps was off the scale during his presidency. The Liberals were slowly turning into socialists, however, and about this time all the draft dodgers of the 1960’s who’d been given amnesty by Jimmy ‘Peanuts’ were turning out college graduates with degrees in socialism.
Bush 1 was an enigma from the CIA and though he never did much either way, he NEVER DID MUCH EITHER WAY.
Welcome to Bill Clinton. Clinton spent most of his two terms wagging the dog and creating the ‘Oral’ Office, sending a bomber to blow up Quaddafi’s tent and killing a goat or two, while allowing the UN to set up the infamous Black Hawk Down situation. He made history by becoming only the second president to be impeached.
I actually felt sorry for Bush 2. He was doomed to infamy from the start. He thought most of America was still the rah rah patriots of WWII when they were ‘simply socialists’ waiting to feed him to the sharks.
Then there came the Manchurian Candidate Obama with a faked (OK Democrats, let’s say “of questionable origin” to assuage your PC brains) birth certificate, who’d gotten a free ride through college under a foreign student exemption, and whose college records and complete life history had been ‘sealed.’ (We know more about Thomas Jefferson’s bastard children than we do about Obama, Michelle , OR their two faked kids.)
From his inaugural address, he slandered America and within days had begun to encourage dissension of the races as well as slandering police who “acted stupidly.” That was mild to the crap that would come in doubling the national debt from what had been built by ALL THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED, feeding us bullshit about how Muslims built this country, and nationalizing American industries.
Fueled by George Soros’ money and using the Air Force fleet as his personal charters, he appointed malcontents and traitors into positions of authority. He trashed the Constitution by installing “czars” (interesting he chose a title like that) to bypass Congressional authority. By that time, Congress was completely corrupt on both sides of the aisle. No one had balls to impeach this charlatan Obama.
Mysteriously, the lone outspoken conservative Supreme Court Justice Scalia suddenly dies in his sleep at an Obama pal’s hunting lodge and the Supreme Court is evenly split. Finally, Congress shows some balls and rejects Obama’s Supreme Court Justice nomination. The Libertards aren’t worried because the fix is in.
Soros ‘has paid’ demonstrators to cause turmoil at ‘all the Republican gatherings.’ Obama concedes that illegal aliens should vote as they won’t be prosecuted, and Soros-manufactured voting machines are caught switching votes in certain precincts. Hillary has cheated her way to the nomination and her lies are completely ignored by the brainwashed minions of sycophants who follow her.
But a shocking thing happened on the way to the forum.
Middle America had had enough and although the pollsters and the pipers tried to convince middle America not even to bother to vote, they were fed up with the denizens of the swamp. It was time. Florida was designated a “swing” state ignoring that all those old retirees living in St. Petersburg, and the fed up Cuban Americans of Miami weren’t interested in their platform. Ohio and Pennsylvania , where coal production was blacklisted and where Obama had ridiculed them for “clinging to their Bibles and their guns,” lay awaiting this supposed “landslide” Hillary vote,…. and creamed it.
The Socialist world of the Democratic Party disintegrated. An American who expressed unbridled love of country and respect for police, firemen, and military steamrolled across the heartland and the liberals realized their scheme was trashed. A CONSTITUTIONALIST would be nominated to the Supreme Court and if the old hag Ginsburg who’d claimed to retire if Trump were elected would actually retire and leave, the Supreme Court would have a massive majority of CONSTITUTIONALISTS for the next 40-50 years.
Now, the same party who’d ridiculed Trump on his comments about the election being rigged, started screaming that the election ‘was’ rigged. They even advocated having the election repeated. They created mobs that burned and pillaged, stopped traffic, threatened murder, battery and rape of Trump supporters, and became the anarchists that the socialist dream thrives upon. They run like castrated pigs for safe zones and use diaper pins as their national symbol.
This is exactly what happens when political correctness takes over and participation trophies are awarded to everyone. They can’t conceive how disgusting and subservient they have become. Donald Trump may NOT be the best person for the job, but he’s such a welcome respite from the candy-assed wimps who’ve been running the swamp that it’s refreshing to see.
At the very least, Donald Trump derailed the Socialist train and bought us precious time. If he only does half of what he’s promised, we’ll still be legions ahead of where Obama has dragged us. Already countries who held us in contempt are lining up to be found in the favor of America. Donald Trump has done more in his short time in the public eye…he prevented Hillary Clinton from becoming president!
So for you liberal lurkers and you half-assed fence-sitters, Tough Shit! You had your big hurrah and now your party is over. For you staunch Republicans in office, don’t gloat so much yourselves. You’ve been put on notice by the American people that we’re fed up with ALL YOU BASTARDS and if you don’t start putting America first, you do so at your own peril. You might want to buy a copy of George McGovern’s autobiography and see how shocking and humbling it can be for a professional politician to have to try to find legitimate work once he falls from grace.
This election was pure, unadulterated AMERICAN. Hillary got beaten and AMERICA WON THE ELECTION. You can claim he’s not “your president” all you want, but unless you ‘forfeit’ your American citizenship, ……
YES, HE IS YOUR PRESIDENT!!!!
Sunday, May 28, 2017
After All The Crap That Hillary Has Pulled Over The Years, This Trump Attack Is Beyond The Pale
Trump will be 'IMPEACHED': Hillary Clinton returns to her alma matter to launch an all-out attack on the president and his 'obstruction of justice'... after breaking out in ANOTHER coughing fit on stage
- Hillary Clinton returned to Wellesley, where she gave the first student speech to graduating students in 1969
- She immediately invoked the issue of impeachment and Richard Nixon
- She mentioned 'obstruction of justice' and referenced the Saturday Night Massacre
- Brings up 'authoritarian' regimes
- 'Some were even denying things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds'
- Early in her remarks, she lost her voice, as she did several times on the campaign trail
- She asked for a lozenge as she tried managed to gain control of her cough
- She joked about her loss, mentioning 'long walks in the woods. Organizing my closets. I won’t lie, Chardonnay helped a little too'
Hillary Clinton suggested her campaign rival President Trump will get impeached, in sharp remarks in a commencement address Friday where she brought up 'obstruction of justice' and warned of the steps to authoritarianism.
Speaking to gowned graduates at the school where she addressed students in 1969, Clinton referenced the resignation of President Richard Nixon and a House committee's impeachment investigation – but it was clear to graduating students what she was really talking about.
'We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice,' the defeated presidential candidate said – as members of the crowd at the liberal campus erupted into cheers.
Then she brought up Nixon's 'firing the the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice' – a line that brought laughs and more cheers.
Hillary Clinton addressed graduates at Wellesley and brought up impeachment and obstruction of justice
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Both were obvious shots at Trump, who fired FBI Director James Comey in the midst of an agency probe of Russian meddling in the U.S. elections. The move brought parallels to Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre,' when Nixon got rid of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
As she addressed students, Clinton also pointed to the evolution of 'authoritarian' regimes, in a criticism of Trump's constant attacks on the media and his critics.
'When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society,' she warned. 'That is not hyperbole, it is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done.'
'You are graduating at a time when there is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason,' she told graduates, referencing White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's defense of 'alternative facts.'
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'We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice'
In yet another shot at Trump, Clinton said: 'Some were even denying things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds.'
Clinton joked about her loss, but said she has had time for grandchildren and long walks in the woods. 'Chardonnay helped a little too,' she quipped
'We got through that tumultuous time,' she told the students, as she described the social conflicts during the late 1960s when she graduated.
'We revved up the engine of imagination and innovation. We turned back a tide of intolerance and embraced inclusion,' she said.
'It was millions of ordinary citizens, especially young people, who voted, marched and organized' to bring changes, she said.
Clinton served as a young staffer when the House Judiciary drew up articles of impeachment against Nixon and investigated his actions during Watergate.
She didn't mention that her husband Bill Clinton was impeached during his second term, in an event that brought blowback for the Republicans who went after him.
THE IMPEACHED PRESIDENT HILLARY SOMEHOW FORGOT TO MENTION IN HER SPEECH... BILL
What about Bill? Hillary Clinton forgot to mention her husband when speaking to grads about impeached presidents
Hillary Clinton suggested - slightly misleadingly - that Richard Nixon was impeached. In fact the process began, but the articles of impeachment were never voted on because of his resignation.
However she could have mentioned a much more recent president who definitely was impeached: her husband.
And while she described Nixon's presidency as 'ending in obstruction of justice and impeachment', she actually lived through her husband being tried in the Senate for precisely that charge.
It might come as little surprise that Hillary did not mention the painful episode, as it put her marriage on very public trial too.
Bill Clinton faced trial after the House of Representatives cited two articles of impeachment. He was charged with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.
The trial hinged on whether or not he lied about having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. She was subpoenaed by Paula Jones who was suing Clinton for sexual harassment, which he denied.
Clinton famously said on TV: 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky', when speaking about the affair. He said the same thing in the deposition in the Jones lawsuit.
But he later admitted to having 'inappropriate' contact with the then 21-year-old White House intern.
He said he had received oral sex from Lewinsky, but claimed he did not reciprocate. Whether that was a lie would hang on the definition of 'sexual relations'.
The affair and the graphic sexual details were detailed in prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report.
It included the detail about Lewinsky's blue dress stained with the president's semen. It also detailed how he allegedly used a cigar as a sex toy with Lewinsky, and then put it in his mouth.
Clinton spoke live on TV in a closed-door testimony to a grand jury, but never used the word 'sex' when talking about his contact with Lewinsky.
President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 for violating an act to replace a member of his cabinet
The reasons Starr outlined for impeachment in the report included perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering and abuse of power. Clinton's trial began on January 7, 1999 for articles one and three of impeachment.
On February 12, Clinton didn't receive the two third majority vote from Congress to impeach.
In total, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted he was not guilty - making him the only president to survive an impeachment trial.
The other president who was fully impeached survived - even more narrowly.
Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's Vice President and came to power after his assassination in 1865.
At that time, Republicans had a majority hold on Congress. They passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867 which prevented the president from kicking officials out of office who were appointed by the Senate.
Cabinet member, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, disagreed with Johnson's views on Reconstruction. Stanton was part of the radical Republican coalition which wanted to see a total end to slavery.
But Johnson's Reconstruction policy was lenient and would have allowed local southern governments to enable 'back codes' which essentially preserved the practice of slavery.
In the fall of 1867, Johnson tried to replace Stanton with Union General Ulysses S Grant. But the Supreme Court refused to rule on the case and Stanton kept his job.
Again, Johnson tried to get rid of Stanton by replacing him with General Lorenzo Thomas a few months later in 1868. Stanton locked himself in his office and refused to leave his post.
Johnson was charged with obstruction of justice, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presided over Johnson's impeachment. It was a public spectacle and Congressmen were deluged with requests for tickets.
On March 16, 35 senators voted to convict for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' while 19 voted to acquit - one more vote would have removed him from office but Johnson narrowly survived.
His reputation is another matter; he has repeatedly been named the worst president ever to lead the nation.
Source: History.com
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for Commencement at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S., May 26, 2017
Clinton began with remarks about the 'amazing futures' of school grads. She encouraged them to seek office and take other steps to make the world better.
It didn't take long for her to break into a coughing fit, something that happened frequently during her campaign.
'And I’ve gotta get a lozenge,' she said, as the crowd clapped in support.
'Whatever your path, you dreamed big,' she told graduating students.
Back in 1969, Clinton spoke about the push and pull of politics to fellow graduates of her school.
'We've had lots of empathy; we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible,' she said. 'And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.'
Clinton started her remarks with a familiar coughing fit, then took out a lozenge
Even as she went after President Trump by alluding to crimes, she also made light of her defeat.
'You may have heard that things didn’t go exactly the way I’ve planned. But you know what, I’m doing okay,' she said to laughs.
'I’ve gotten to spend time with my family, especially my amazing grandchildren,' she said.
'Long walks in the woods ... Organizing my closets ... I won’t lie, Chardonnay helped a little too,' she quipped.
Clinton brought up her 'Onward together' PAC, but provided little information about how it would work. She said it would involve recruiting candidates and other organizing.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4545826/Hillary-Clinton-invokes-IMPEACHMENT-speech-grads.html#ixzz4iQqckVex
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