tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post8451543966652687896..comments2023-10-21T06:47:36.819-07:00Comments on p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: "The barriers and obstructions that stand between the holder of that powerful office and his own capacity for evil"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post-80650115457446340812007-08-08T08:05:00.000-07:002007-08-08T08:05:00.000-07:00Hi, MickyNo, not really. Today happened to be the ...Hi, Micky<BR/><BR/>No, not really. Today happened to be the date, and I just think it's a hilarious book. Tastes vary.<BR/><BR/>I guess any time you notice an anniversary, you're living in the past a little bit, but I don't think it's crippling me, if that's what you mean.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, you don't really mean to suggest that the past has no importance for the present, do you? <BR/><BR/>* Cheney has maneuvered himself into unprecedented power in large part because of the lessons he thinks should be drawn from Watergate, the resignation, and post-Watergate reforms.<BR/><BR/>* The Iraq war was shaped and sold by Cheney and Rumsfeld, two Nixon administration survivors who thought they knew how to get around the harm that the Vietnam War did to Nixon's administration.<BR/><BR/>* One of the reason the House isn't debating articles of impeachment against Bush for his many crimes today is that conservative's resentment of Nixon's forced resignation made them eager for payback with Clinton--and in the process they tainted the impeachment process to the extent that even in the face of Bush's lawlessness it still looks to many people like a partisan weapon, not a constitutional remedy.<BR/><BR/>So in that sense, yeah, I'm living in the past--or at least <I>with</I> it. We all are. <BR/><BR/>bnNothstinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00845864846626727286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440892.post-45923546679681077182007-08-08T02:45:00.000-07:002007-08-08T02:45:00.000-07:00Are you living in the past?Are you living in the past?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.com