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Will We Get a Frost/Bush?
Naomi Campbell Asks the Questions Now
New York, 12:52 PM
Sun Dec 20
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08/04/09
FYI, if you ever want a real insight into how Cheney's mind was molded, check out Fronline's Watergate +30. The rhetoric of the Nixon White House pretty much shaped Cheney (where terms like "enemies list", "traitors", "executive privilege", etc. were part of the everyday lexicon). It's worth is alone to see Fred Thompson act like a total, overconfident, and rude ass as council to Nixon.
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oh, and 9/11.
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Karl? No. He was in front of the camera too.
When you find the guy(ssss) behind the guy behind the guy behind the guy.
Then you have found the guy(sssss).
I know, I has a hard time the day I found out Santa Claus didn't exist. But refusing to realize how this all happens is not the same as being truly aware of what is going on.
Or do you believe that the pilot is what gets you from LAX to DFW? Instead of the mechanics and service people who work like honey bees to keep Southwest Airlines afloat?
Herb is a great guy who is fun to collaborate with, but he's not the guy who put the fuel in.
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I've watched your argument being formed over the past eight years by the left.
- George Bush must be the stupidest President that ever lived.
- Wait! He took us to a false war. He must be crafty.
-Wait! He said something stupid, but we couldn't have been taken to war by someone stupid, so he must have been the puppet of smart people who are only good at taking us to war, but not at anything else.
This thread is also not about the legitimacy of war. It's really just a make up your mind and tell me what you think Bush is. If he was a stupid puppet, then why doesn't anyone think they'll get satisfaction from an interview now that he isn't surrounded by the puppet masters?
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Nixon really was painfully self-aware. He was acutely politically sensitive, knew that he was widely loathed. He wished his path to Oval Office was paved in noble sentiments. But he learned early the raw-knuckled mechanics of real power- and it's an ugly business.
Nixon wouldn't have liked W very much. He was authentically smart and scrappy, and W's silver spoon and silver platter on which he was handed the Presidency would have bothered Nixon to no end, if they were contemporaries.
(Can't recommend Rick Perlstein's Nixonland enough, both as a portrait of Nixon and the origins of certain political tactics -and ideology-that are with us to this day.)
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Not only did I learn way too much about Johnson, but I learned way too much about Nixon.
He hated everything and everyone. He was consumed. Every part of his life was calculation.
The Pre-Clinton Triangulation.
Every smile. Every word. Every wave of the hand.
He would have admired W's loyalty.
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