Folks, please don't give into cynicism and despair

[steve2470]

RE: Downing Street Memo, we are at the FRONT of this impeach bush thing. The best analogy I can give you is June 1972 when Nixon's White House called the Watergate break-in a "third rate burglary". And that's exactly what it looked like to 99.9999% of Americans who didn't know the truth. Thank God for Woodward, Bernstein and others who looked into it, found out the truth, and then kept pushing it. Yes, I know things are very different now than in 1972, but to give up is to accept the Third Reich here in a business suit

[H2O Man]

1. Right on!!!

We've just been warming up. The real fight is about to begin.

[laura888]

2. thanks, steve, for the words of encouragement

I sometimes despair, however, because the media does not seem to currently employ (or publish?) the likes of Woodward and Bernstein.

[steve2470]

4. You're welcome !

I lived through Watergate from the VERY beginning and it was maddening, frustrating, seemed never ending, hopeless, but then Nixon QUIT !! It was great vindication.

[laura888]

7. Whoa!

An impeachment would be a dream come true - but it sure feels pretty distant to me right now...

[expatriate]

9. I was there during the Watergate scandal too

And these days, people often refer to it as if it was something that happened very quickly. It didn't. It dragged on forever. For a long time, people just dismissed it as a simple burglary. For a while it looked like Agnew was going to be the scapegoat. Then the hearings went on forever, and Nixon was never brought to justice.

Thank you for mentioning this. It's hard sometimes, when it's so obvious to us that things are so wrong and so corrupt, to remember that your average joe is just bumbling along his life-path, thinking that things aren't really bad.

[kliljedahl]

3. Yeah Woodward & Bernstein were journalists

Unfortunately we don't have any more of those.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[n2mark]

5. Thanks Steve 2470

won't give up, but worried about my adult children's future and their children.

I've never in all my years experienced a president and administration like this. They are totally off the wall. They all need some extensive head work done.

[steve2470]

6. I agree with you.

I think, unfortunately, that we HAVE to be the journalists in this situation. I've only just begun to do my thing to get the word out. I don't know how far I'm willing to go, but I'm not ready, by a long shot, to give up. My son will be 18 in 8.5 years and I sure don't want him to have to flee to Canada just to live. I know where you are coming from, big time.

[bennywhale]

8. I was actually looking into flights to the moon, but hey, i feel refreshed

now.

[kansasblue]

10. DU: the new Woodward and Bernstein