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Tue Feb-07-06 03:55 PM
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Who is the greatest modern American? |
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I believe the modern era began when the neocons took down Richard Nixon and fundamentally changed American politics. This event began the radical change of the Republican party into the fascist cabal it has become and began the polarization of American politics that persists even today.
So, who do you think is the greatest American since Nixon resigned?
It need not be a politician.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:01 PM
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1. Ummmmm...gee, thats hard, Brian Urhlacher? |
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Tue Feb-07-06 05:43 PM
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29. present company excepted |
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we bow before your greatness and all, but . . .
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:04 PM
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:29 PM
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20. he was my alternate pick |
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:04 PM
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5. WTF Nixon was the biggest neo con that ever existed. Who do you think |
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taught KKK rove and the rest of shrubs men in black? Nixon wasn't a neo con=pfffft
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:08 PM
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The Neo-cons were the ideological backlash from Nixonian Realpolitik, IIRC.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:09 PM
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13. Nixon was not a neocon |
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he was the last old-school repuke.
he broke the law and used dirty tricks, as repukes have done since lincoln
but he shared none of the the neocon policy beliefs.
he was very much like Clinton, when it came down to policy details.
though, unlike Clinton, Nixon was also vermin.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:29 PM
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21. Then you missed out all of the Nixon payola from foreign interest groups |
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Edited on Tue Feb-07-06 04:32 PM by mrcheerful
and all the other stuff Nixon stood for like tax give aways to the rich. Who do you think was behind tough on crime laws? Who do you think esculated the drug war? Remember Nixons law and order platform? The whole time Nixon was running, he was saying law and order while police were beating up anti war protesters. Who came up with the veitnam exit stratergy of starting a war in Cambodia? BTW repiglets started being neo con with Hoover. Everything they stand for came out during Hoovers reign. Nixon was No Bill Clinton. Todays neo cons were Nixons jr staff members. You relly should research the piglet party and see how far back this so called neo con movement has been going on. Nixon did only one thing neo cons refuse to do, they don't give in to making compermises. I remember Nixon the president, there is no difference between Nixon and GW bush. Also Nixon tried using fear the way shrub does, only back then american people didn't by into the fear tactics, maybe it was because most of them remembered MacCarthy and drop duck cover. Also the religious right were thought to be a joke and most americans made fun of their extremist views. That all changed with Reagan.
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Tue Feb-07-06 05:51 PM
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32. for the Penthouse spread |
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or for some other reason?
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Tue Feb-07-06 05:58 PM
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34. I think you are thinking of Jessica Hahn |
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Tue Feb-07-06 11:15 PM
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38. Well I wasn't until today |
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Fawn Hall was Oliver North's secretary. She's the one who did his shredding. I seem to recall her being upset with cast as a bimbo just because she was a blonde with big hair.
Jessica Hahn was a bimbo. She worked for Jimmy Baker and ended up posing nude. She also had big hair.
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Tue Feb-07-06 11:20 PM
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40. Well, I have Jedi mind powers... |
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and I'm STILL not thinking about Jessica Hahn. Or Jim Bakker. Oh GOD - Tammy Faye!
Some things overcome Jedi mind powers.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:05 PM
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8. Scott Ritter... or Joe Wilson |
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2 Republicans that refused to lie about WMD's for this Administration.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:06 PM
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He has devoted his life to the relief of suffering of others. He is a wonderful role model and man.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:08 PM
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i can concur wholeheartedly.
he was the right man at the wrong time.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:55 PM
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27. He was my first thought, as well n/t |
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:07 PM
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10. A homeless vet who still loves America. |
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Tue Feb-07-06 05:45 PM
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30. anyone in particular? |
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:12 PM
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15. You're wrong on more than one point. |
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First, the neocons didn't take down Nixon. Second, Nixon's downfall DIDN'T 'fundamentally change American politics' (all it did was make Nixon's successors determined not to get caught...look at Reaggan, or our current president). Third, you obviously have no understanding of the past forty years of Republican party history (it is what it is today because of reactionary backlash against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that led to the defection of a LOT of Southern Democrats, and Reagan and his successors' catering to CHristian fundamentalism to garner votes).
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Tue Feb-07-06 05:50 PM
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I know enough about repukes to know that you spell Ronnie's name, "Raygun."
Actually, Nixon was pretty certainly brought down from within the repuke party, creating a vacuum which the neocons filled.
So, I'm wrong, wrong and have no understanding? Your statement that all the fall of Nixon did was make successors determined not to get caught is laughable.
I said "I believe..." and I asked a question that does not rely on my belief being true.
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:12 PM
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16. My eight-year old son, Michael |
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I see in him what I hope to see in the future of America: optimistic, intelligent, inquisitive, and polite.
Unlike the current POTUS.
Michael even enunciates better!
Here's to you, Michael, the "Greatest American" today! :beer: root beer, of course!
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:16 PM
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Why? :shrug: No ONE person can achieve anything, alone.
There are those who have a skill at inspiring others' best in serving the interests of all. But, those who have served the interests of all should have their own wall of recognition,...every single one of them.
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Tue Feb-07-06 05:53 PM
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33. yeah, but he's a throwback |
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:33 PM
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Mr. Rogers
Bill Moyers
Jimmy Carter
Ted Kennedy
The Congressional Black Caucus
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Both of them show such bravado while speaking the truth. They are both courageous individuals deserving of attention and respect. BTW I forgot my other favorite; Molly. Bless them all.
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Tue Feb-07-06 11:28 PM
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:52 PM
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Barbara Jordan Bill Moyers Martin Luther King Jimmy Carter (Not necessarily in that order, but I like it in that order, and I also know that not all of them have been alive since Nixon resigned.)
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Tue Feb-07-06 10:43 PM
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36. A damn hard question to answer. Maybe Bill Moyers? |
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Many others come to mind as well...but you asked for one. :D
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Tue Feb-07-06 10:55 PM
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Nobel Laureate, physicist, teacher, genius, free spirit.
So sad that he never made it to Tuva.
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Tue Feb-07-06 11:19 PM
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Because he really cared about those bears...
It breaks my heart that they removed his body from the bear's bowels, I think he would have preferred to be digested.
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Tue Feb-07-06 11:24 PM
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41. Today, I am all about Jimmy Carter. But I also love Howard Zinn (shit |
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he's not British is he? I am soooooo tired....)
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