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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:37 AM Original message |
The ultimate irony: By today's standards Tricky Dicky Nixon would be a Dirty Fucking Hippie.. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. He was also an advocate of a Guaranteed Minimum Income n/t |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Oh yes, I forgot that one.. Thanks.. n/t |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. How I wish that had happened. Just think of the money and time saved |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's true. And he called himself a Republican! |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
4. He pushed for mandated and subsidized insurance before it was cool and audacious |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. And Kennedy said no ... |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. If he had not been such a hateful paranoid character, and that little Watergate thingy... |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Basically ... |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 04:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
28. Precisely |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
6. Nixon 2012. n/t |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Hilarious! |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Nixon/Obama 2012 |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. He's tanned, he's rested, he's ready.. |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. RFLMAO - Ding, Ding, Ding. We do have a winner! |
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Heywood J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 04:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. "Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs, and pay attention |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. Take away his warmongering and his obsession with spying and intrusion of privacy and you've got .. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 08:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
29. Warmongering? |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
14. Why the difference? I posted this on another thread but I'll post it here too |
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20score (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
15. He also believed, personally anyway, on treatment over incarceration. K&R |
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pissedoff01 (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
16. "the average cost of a day of hospital care now exceeds $110" |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
18. He was the last domestic economic progressive the nation has had |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:37 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Foreign policy: what about China? |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:11 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Keep telling yourself that the most heinous criminal to occupy the Oval Office |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 08:12 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Hardly |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 08:16 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I agree, Reagan was far worse |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:02 AM Response to Original message |
20. He was a goddamn crook then and he'd be a goddamn crook now. |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:11 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. When Obama is done, let's compare body counts and crimes |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:13 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Yeah. Let's just do that. |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:14 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I hope I am eating crow, that's all I have to say |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:17 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Hey, I hope you are too, but I also hope both you and I |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
26. True ... now he'd be a better Democrat |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
27. hell, does anyone remember how Sen. Joe McCarthy first came to fame? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Democrats today are far to the right of Republicans of the 1950's! |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
30. I don't much care for your choice of words there fumesucker |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Eh, I *are* a dirty fucking hippie.. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 05:29 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Peace |
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Blue Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
35. A sobering realization |
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TiberiusGracchus (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Says more about CURRENT DEMS than it says about Nixon, but yeah tricky Dick was from |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
37. And funded the National Endowment for the Arts. What a lefty. nt |
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