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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:43 AM
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Jerry Springer just asked if Bush is worse than Nixon.
My answer is YES. Worst. President. Ever.
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Tesla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:44 AM
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1. Nixon was elected....
I think????
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whatever4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:48 AM
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4. No doubt!
That's a key difference. I don't honestly think Nixon would have even WANTED to get away with doing all that BushCo has done. Not to defend him, especially, but more to say that BushCo is a special kind of monster that has taken us down different and more dangerous paths than Nixon ever dreamed of. He spied, but, I never got the impression he'd take down an entire nation, his OWN nation, for personal gain. He wasn't perfect, but I'd say he was a far lesser evil. And GOD knows he had a better brain. He was frugal. Bush probably doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Nixon went to China. International politics MEANT something to him.
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Past_World_Doubt Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:46 AM
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2. Tough one to crack for me....neither was legally elected..
There was so many dirty tricks that elected nixon I can't even remember them all. But, Bush is far stupider imo and is so arrogant he outdoes nixon's evil in every way. Instead of being totally evil, bush is incompetent, evil and genuinely a pawn of a bunch of PNAC operatives who committed treason to the USA years ago. Worse.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:46 AM
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3. Yes.
Nixon was elected. And he had a brain.
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:51 AM
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5. "YES. Worst. President. Ever."
Agree 100%
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atommom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:26 AM
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6. Nixon WAS a crook, but Bush has him beat by a mile.
The difference is that no one seems willing to take him down. The public doesn't seem to expect the truth from its leaders anymore.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:29 AM
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7. Nixon actually had a relatively moderate record as President.
Creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, revenue sharing with the states, detente with the Soviet Union (signing of the ABM treaty and SALT I). Rapproachment with China.

Yes, Nixon was a slimeball in private (as the White House tapes now show). But Bush and this current regime makes Richard Milhous Nixon look saintly by comparison.

Bush is by FAR worse than Nixon. The worst President the United States has ever had. No contest.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:33 AM
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9. I agree. At least, Nixon had some positives, like the Consumer
Protection Act. What positives can Bush point to? A failed presidency, and a presidency that ruined the country, destroyed the Constitution and made the US a rogue nation.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:37 AM
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12. This is my turn to be a heretic and pitch Woody Wilson as Worst.
And it's not just that he has more Ws in his name.

as scummy a human as Chimpy might be, Wilson was an unreconstructed racist who rolled back embryonic civil rights measures and set back that cause by decades. Wilson committed us to a war that saw not thousands but hundreds of thousands of our young men slaughtered for arguably lamer reasons than in Iraq.

And had we not gone to Europe, I can't see Hitler rising to power in the wake of Germany's defeat.

Then again (shudder) it's still only the mid-point of Chimpy's regime.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:31 AM
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8. Bush has killed more people than heart disease since 2000...
Even the people who were on Jerry's old show, are probably ashamed of our Bushwhacker In Chief!
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:34 AM
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10. Jerry springer still doesn't get what's going on!
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:35 AM
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11. Bush makes Nixon look like Mother Teresa. ;)
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:40 AM
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13. Hunter S. Thompson thought so, and he knew Nixon inside and out.
Thompson flogged Nixon mercilessly. Unendingly. Completely without reserve. When Nixon died, Thomspon wrote a piece about Nixon that essentially said, "He's dead, but he was still a bastard." In 2004, Thompson said that if Nixon were alive and running against Bush, Tricky Dick would get his vote in a hot minute. End of debate, as far as I'm concerned.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:55 AM
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14. Bushler is pure evil, far, far worse than Nixon
If he's not impeached or whatever he's going to take this country down the path of 1940's Germany (we've already gone down the path of 1930's Germany).
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