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Art Buchwald's list of excuses for Nixon defenders (Original Post)
SethH
Jul 2017
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DesertRat
(27,995 posts)1. Circa 1973. Wow, the excuses haven't changed much!
rzemanfl
(29,566 posts)2. K&R n/t
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)3. Buchwald was a national treasure. n/t
Gothmog
(145,463 posts)15. Agreed
I made a point of reading his columns
orangecrush
(19,587 posts)4. Deja Vu
dgauss
(882 posts)5. A new lying Republican president, same old checklist.
Gothmog
(145,463 posts)16. The more things change, the more they stay the same
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)6. wow. I'd forgotten.
mgardener
(1,817 posts)7. I have not.
I remember the conversations at that time.
I had just graduated from highschool. The same arguments, same BS.
Wait for, " the good of the country" to keep a lying, cheating treasonous POTUS in office.
It will come.
benld74
(9,909 posts)8. Go Art!!
Politicub
(12,165 posts)9. Amazing find!
Keeping this.
iluvtennis
(19,865 posts)11. Agree.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)10. Brilliant then, even more now. Belated welcome to DU
calimary
(81,399 posts)12. Welcome to DU, SethH!
MAN, that old cliche - "the more things change, the more they remain the same" - is confirmed yet again.
There's nothing new about "Whataboutism" except that it now has a semi-official name. And "everybody else is doing it" is a moldy-oldie for ALL of us from 2nd grade, if not earlier.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)13. Remove the word Chappaquiddick and replace it with Hillary Clinton.
It's all the same dirty GOP playbook.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)17. I was thinking the same: replace Chappaguiddick with "But her emails!"
Gothmog
(145,463 posts)14. I remember and used to love Buchwald
This is a great column by a great man that is relevant today