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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
I can't read german - but I get the gist of what your saying on here. The key here is that this isn't just Obama - this is more Reid and Pelosi actually - the President is just the voice pushing - they are the power pushing.
Whats amazing is that you indicate that "the politics of personal destruction" is new for American politics. Its not - not by a long shot.
Pretty much refer back to Reagan. From that time forward, there has been some type of personal destruction attempts. Bush senior escaped a major one, mainly because the Dems failed to bring down Reagan with Iran/Contra. That was the first big push. Then you had the Reps trying the same with Clinton over Lewinsky and real estate deals. Then the Dems tried again with Bush using the war, 9/11 whacko theories, etc.
Honestly, there has not been a push to attack Obama to bring him down, what has occured has been simply a debate over what this country needs regarding health care. Just because the majority of media wants to make it about their annointed one instead of that fact that MOST voters oppose this plan, is just another example of how the majority of media is a willing tool of the left.
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the first really major piece of mud thrown within the timeframe you mention was Watergate, and Republican Nixon. The next major coup was Republican Reagan arranging a secret hostage deal with Iran to crush Carter. Next, Iran/Contra was not a mudball thrown by the Democrats - but a mudball resulting from the secret weapons deals that the Republican-owned White House must have known of, and the massive selling of drugs in the US with assistance by the CIA (so that the Contras got an income to pay for the US weapons). And then there were the court-callings and voting irregularities during Republican Bush junior'S two elections, and the treason of the republican government to start the long-before wanted Iraq war. - Some of these things imo border to high treason against the nation - maybe not by the word of the law, but by moral assessment and content.
Compared to that, the democratic presidents' misdemeanors of that timeframe are almost cosmetic in nature. Kennedy and Ford and the engagement in Vietnam cannot be counted here. It may be seen as a misled policy, a questionable political assessement and strategy - but no intentional cheating.
Eisenhower with his farewell speech - I often wondered if he really knew how tragically visionary he was.