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Topic: Obama succeeded where Nixon Failed
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PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 2253 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 15, 2013 06:17 PM
Oh, and btw, Turley (who wrote this) is a progressive liberal.x http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/25/nixon-has-won-watergate/2019443/ quote: Barack Obama's imperial presidency is just what his controversial predecessor wanted.
quote: We appear to have grown weary of the republic and traded it for promises of security from a shining political personality. Somewhere, Nixon must be wondering how it could have been this easy.
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PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 2253 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 15, 2013 06:24 PM
"One of the most consequential aspects of the Obama legacy [will be his transformation of] what was once known as ‘right-wing shredding of the Constitution’ into bipartisan consensus." --Glenn GreenwaldIP: Logged |