I Miss Nixon (by Ken Levine at HuffPost)

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Ken Levine


03.21.2007
I Miss Nixon (19 comments )

God, I do. I miss those halcyon days when the Commander-in-Chief of the free world, the man with his finger on the button that could start global nuclear war was merely paranoid. Oh for those carefree days when the President's biggest enemy was hippies. When his dislike of Jews didn't prevent him from recognizing Israel's importance to the world.


When his chief advisors were only fascist thugs instead of Bond supervillains.

We didn't know we had it so good. Sure, we look back wistfully at fashions of the 70's. Someday those big lapels, scotch plaid pants, afros and sideburns will return but will we ever have a President again that thinks the worst thing he could be is a crook?

There were bogus "secret" peace plans instead of bogus "secret" new war plans.

Eighteen minutes were unaccounted for, not four years.

Back in those disco nights a corrupt Vice President would resign. Am I getting too nostalgic? One article in the Washington Post could bring down an entire administration. Dan Ackroyd could do his impression of the president and we'd all laugh without wanting to slit our wrists.

The President would use his influence to appoint Elvis a deputy. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-levine/i-miss-nixon_b_43958.html

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1. How is it that a lot of us could have predicted this before the 2000 election?

How is it that we could elect someone president who has never been out of this country? Who failed at every business he ran. Who said he didn't need to know much because he would be surrounded by good advisers?

Didn't those things raise any red flags?

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2. They raised a lot of red flags

I, for one, thought Bush would be a disaster as President. Never in my worst nightmares, however, did I ever imagine what would actually occur.

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3. It raised plenty of red flags

We have since found out that the majority of people voted against Dubya, but there he sits.

The US has been in a constitutional crisis since 2000 and is basically the victim of a fascist coup.