fuck richard nixon, he was the worst president ever, until jr. came along

[mopaul]

god the way the slimey nixon apologists are coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches. all day long nothing but attempts at reinventing nixon as a great statesman, set up by his enemies.

fuck nixon, i remember nixon, fuck him.

[aintitfunny]

1. I remember Nixon too

he sucked. He was evil. Not as bad as Shrub, but horrid nonetheless.

[nolabels]

9. Of course just because your too stupid to know how to be evil.............

doesn't short you an honorable mention


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

[jobycom]

2. Bullshit!

Until Reagan came along! He was way worse. I'm still not sure W was worse than Reagan. Pretty tight race, that one.

[mopaul]

5. that is a tight race

maybe the two of them can settle that one in hell

[EOTE]

15. * first, then Reagan, then Nixon.....

Then comes Hoover and poppy bush in the list of all time worst presidents. Nixon was horrible, but he looks like a Saint compared to reagan and shrub. He did, after all, create the EPA and start up talks with China again. He was pretty bad, but nothing compared to raygun and shrub.

[jobycom]

18. That's why I believe Reagan was the worst ever. Even when Nixon

was president, there was still the idea that the president was president of the whole country, not just his party. Nixon ran the country, but with a partisan bias, as all presidents before him had done.

Reagan changed this. Reagan was the president of the conservatives in America, and basically said "Fuck the other side." Not only did he disagree with them, as Nixon had done, but he demonized them and tried to make them into second-class citizens. Nixon attacked the other side, but still tried to do what he thought was best for the whole country, not just his party. Bush Daddy, who hated Reagan, backed off Reagan's policy somewhat, and was defeated by the extremists in his own party for his efforts. Clinton ruled as a statesman, refusing even to demonize those who were slandering him.

W. is just a disciple of Reagan, as are all the leaders of the Repubs now. Even Barry Goldwater despised these people--Gingrich, Delay, Armey, Frist, etc. They don't care what is best for the nation, only what makes their own side richer and happier. This is why I think America is doomed. This is a typical stage in the decline of empires. It's even typical in the decline of corporations, when the owners who built the corporation retire and leave it to the children who only want to milk it.

Who knows, maybe the people will get fed up and boot the lying bastards before it's too late. But it's so close to too damn late now, I don't know if we have a chance.

Nixon--bad because of his criminal tendencies and his political views. Reagan and W--bad to the bone, with not one redeeming feature.

[jobycom]

21. I don't know, Andrew Jackson deserves to be on that list

What he did to the Native Americans was more atrocious than Bush, Reagan and Nixon combined.

[flaminbats]

27. we aren't still paying for Jackson's Presidency..

what Jackson did to native Americans leaves a dark stain on our nation, but that's nothing compared to what we are doing to those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Now we are leaving the tax burden of these crimes behind for future generations to pay..at least Jackson's government paid for his killings.

Unlike Bush, Andrew Jackson believed the electoral college should be abolished..wow, find me an officeholder who supports that now. and most things eventually improved after Jackson was President, but can we say this about Nixon?

[jobycom]

28. Ever driven through New Mexico?

We certainly are still paying for what Jackson did.

[flaminbats]

35. What???

thanks to people like Nixon, Reagan, and Bush..we have only turned our backs on this nation's responsibility to native Americans, blacks, the disabled...and now Social Security, Medicare, and even our democracy.

[MessiahRp]

3. I remember Mike Lupica

on Conan O'Brien right after Nixon died who got a shocked reaction from the audience when he said that just because Nixon died doesn't make him any less of a liar and a bad guy. It was hilarious. Sticks with me even today.

I love that the RWers are all pissed about this. How dare anyone tell the truth on a Republican Administration? It's unpatriotic and treasonous to charge a Republican with a crime. But Clinton dances around semantics and fire the cannons and get him impeached.

Sad thing is, Bush could shoot someone in the face for no reason on TV with a national audience and no charges would ever be brought forth in today's political atmosphere.

Rp

[SnowGoose]

4. Yet as bad as he was,

he created the EPA - if he were around today, he'd be to liberal for the modern GOP.

[wtmusic]

7. No kidding

Junior makes Nixon look like a choirboy

[bpilgrim]

6. Hunter S. Thompson hated the CHIMP more than NIXON

now that is saying something

peace

[catzies]

33. I wish HST was still with us. Would love to hear what he'd say today

n/t

[immoderate]

8. And the good things Nixon did...

he did for all the wrong reasons.

He felt the pressure of the warriors at the gates. That's why he started the EPA and ended the draft.

He was literally under siege, that's why he opened dialog with China. It was a shock to his friends and foes alike. And as anybody who was around then knows, anyone else who opened relations with China would have felt the wrath of Nixon.

He was tricky, he was sleazy, but what he had over the likes of Bush, he wasn't a complete moron with utter disregard for the future of the United States.

--IMM

[jobycom]

19. That's exactly the difference--Regard for the nation. Nixon had it, Bush

doesn't. Neither did Reagan. They cared only for their own party.

[immoderate]

26. Nixon was always mindful of "his place in history."

Bush has never heard of history. Reagan thought he was in a movie.

--IMM

[jobycom]

30. Actually, that sums it up just about perfectly. nt.

[Beetwasher]

10. Nixon Was An Asshole, But He Wasn't a Pompous Entitled Obnoxious Dimwitted

momma's boy. At least Nixon had some brains and wasn't a lazy fuckwad. Man, but he was a vicious, vindictive fucker and a criminal, so he's got that in common with Commander Cuckoo Bannanas. I'd trade CCB for Nixon any day.

[dbonds]

11. Don't forget papa bush.

He was worse than nixon. I really didn't think we could get much worse than him, was I ever wrong.

[LynnTheDem]

12. At least Nixon had an excuse; he was mentally deranged from disease.

bush is just a nasty little thug of a MFer with no soul whatsoever.

[blindpig]

13. he was a cheap thug and a mass murderer

but Reagan was worse. Reagan too has a ton of blood on his hands but he or his handlers had an agenda far beyond Nixon's petty megalomania. bu$h & co are a continuation and intensification of what Reagan started.

Thinking about those scum make me wish I believed in hell.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. mopaul, I lova ya, man, but I gotta disagree with ya here ........

Reagan and Poppy were far worse than Nixon.

[Crankie Avalon]

16. Compared to Bush Jr. and Reagan, I think Nixon was...

...an intellectual giant. Also, on some deeply submerged but nevertheless present level, Nixon had some small sense of shame which neither Reagan nor Bush Jr. did/do.

Having some small sense of shame might have been part of the reason Nixon was caught--he wasn't a smooth and convincing enough liar.

[unhappycamper]

17. Tricky Dick was a good name for this scumbag. Remember when he went on TV

and said we would not invade Cambodia? I was at a fire base about 100 meters inside Cambodia near the parrot's beak.

[WilliamPitt]

Nixon would have no place in the modern GOP

He actually believed that other parts of the world existed, and created the Environmental Protection Agency.

After Reagan, and after this most recent asshat, Nixon almost seems quaint.

[thecai]

20. Don't Forget Reagan!

He was no better than Nixon or the Bush's.

[noonwitch]

23. Iran Contra was far worse of a scandal/crime than Watergate

The Reagan administration sold weapons to the Iranians, our enemy at the time, then used the proceeds to fund the nun-murdering, drug-dealing terrorists called the contras that senile old Ronnie thought were "freedom fighters". On top of that, the administration told the DEA to look the other way while the contras smuggled cocaine into the country, while at the same time pushing for very high sentence guidlines for americans convicted of possessing those very same substances.

In addition, those Iranians Ronnie sold weapons to funded Hezbollah, who of course, bombed a Beruit buidling that housed US Marines, killing hundreds of our own soldiers. The Reagan administration further sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, thus funding both sides of the long, bloody Iran/Iraq war.

What Nixon did was petty in contrast, at least as pertains to Watergate. The assassination of Salvador Allende was pretty bad, but no one ever went after Tricky Dick for that one.

[tjwash]

22. Well...

...he did start the EPA, pulled the troops out of Vietnam, and had a decent foreign policy. The rest of these neo-con slime-bags have gotten us into war, disabled environmental protections, and can't even remember the names of foreign leaders. Nixon is a centrist democrat compared to Reagan et-al.

[Ernesto]

24. A Dem presidential candidate would be wise to copy tricky dick....

Campaign with a plan to end the Iraq war, like nixon did about Vietnam. By 2008, even the most ardent, head in the sand, sheeple are going to be totally fed up with the quagmire.

[Cyrano]

25. Right on, mopaul.

Listening to human garbage like Pat Buchanan, G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Colson, and so many others of their ilk defending Nixon and hurling accusations at Felt (Deep Throat) is like listening to a Tom DeLay lecture on ethics.

Felt, the number two guy at the FBI at the time, took an oath, to "...protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." And that's exactly what he did.

And among those domestic enemies were Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Pat Buchanan, Liddy, Colson and so many more. Yet these sacks of shit see fit to attack a true patriot? I'm a devout agnostic, but listening to these people makes me wish I could believe in a hell.

[Redstone]

29. No, he wasn't "set up by his enemies." He was set up by his own

insanity. Nixon was a fucking lunatic and a sorry excuse for a human being, but I don't think he actually was a bad President. He inherited a war, and got whacked with two energy crises, and economic problems as well. I can't see anyone else having been able to do better.

Personality and presidentiality don't necessarily equate. Clinton was a terrific president, but he was too damn stupid to keep Mr Happy in his pants, when he knew the Republicans were out to get him!

O'course, here we have bushyboy, defective both in personality and presidentiality. Absolutely, positively, the worst ever. Second place: Reagan.

Redstone

[Zinfandel]

31. Reagan. The union busting, environmental disaster, lying asshole!

Who the press treated like God and still people don't know the fucker was just a Alzheimer dunce puppet for the neo-cons now in power, who got their start after killing Kennedy and onto the Nixon administration...

Reagan was the blue print for Jr. administration to finish what the fascist under Reagan (and his courting of the religious right) began...

Bill Clinton put it on hold for eight years and Gore was going to as well...so they had to steal it for Jr. to continue their corporate take over of the worlds resources...

Sick, greedy, lying, inhumane monsters!!!

People still don't know or don't care about the ramifications of the incredibly treasonous events of Iran-Contra. The same greedy slime doing this shit to get Reagan elected and profit, these same fucks are the people in power today and will continue because of the electronic voting machines being put in place each day around the country....

Wait until you go vote in 2006...You'll see your brand spanking new BBV machines waiting to distort your vote. They are putting them in as quietly and as fast as possible!!!!!

[leftofthedial]

32. yep

nixon was a pathetic, lying crook who disgraced the office and by rights should have eliminated the repukes from the political process for 50 years.

the little bushturd is 1000X worse

[ElkHunter]

34. I had the privilage of leading the last demonstration...

...against Nixswine on May 4th, 1974 - the fourth anniversary of Kent State. One of the proudest moments of my life, I must say. So I agree wholeheartedly: Fuck Nixscum! He was a murderous thug and a tyrant whose name should only be remembered in infamy.

[Cocoa]

36. you might like Hunter S. Thompson's epitaph of Nixon

impossible to excerpt, it's all too good, so here's a link...

http://www.counterpunch.org/thompson02212005.html