Bush the Worst Ever? ... Four opinions on WP

[RedEarth]

What Will History Say?: Move Over, Hoover

What Will History Say?: He's The Worst Ever

What Will History Say?: Time's On His Side

What Will History Say?: At Least He's Not Nixon


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101509.html

......links to all the opinions are below and to the right of the second paragraph ......

[katsy]

1. Not nixon?

At least nixon had some regard for the environment.

Nixon wiretapped (& more) political enemies, bushco wiretaps his enemies... all of us.

Nixon threatened anti-trust action upon the media... our MSM gave bushco* a free pass for all his crimes.

Okay, not a thorough analysis, but IMO nixon was a novice compared to bushco.

[nosmokes]

2. i got no love for nixon, but at least he was a statesman.

he opened up relations w/ china. dimson is just a petulant bully

[Atman]

3. From an article in the Hartford Advocate this week

(And not, it is not from the same article I just posted in another thread)

"The issues at the heart of the Watergate hearings were, I now see thanks to McCarthy, the same as those that we confront in the criminal culture of the Bush administration. Abuse of power. Nixon and his circle actually believed that they had, in McCarthy's memorably contradictory phrasing, "the constitutional power to suspend the Constitution." Some might think the Iraq war is Bush's Watergate, but I think it's the ongoing Plame probe. That is the one smoking gun, the one crime, around which all these more general abuses of power revolve. Getting to the bottom of who revealed the name of an undercover CIA agent and, thus, compromised national security, and who ordered it (the Watergate litany of "What did the president know and when did he know it?") will be the straw that breaks the Bush administration's back. This crime, alone, surpasses any of the myriad crimes of the Nixon administration."

"The Mask of Watergate"

http://www.ctnow.com/custom/nmm/hartfordadvocate/hce-hta-1207-ht50bisbort50.artdec07,0,6611095.story?coll=hce-utility-ha-advocate

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