Speaking of anniversaries, 35 years ago today Richard Nixon's buddies broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel complex in Washington, D.C., to help them get political intelligence, to win an election that was a shoo-in anyway, and was ultimately a landslide. I distinctly remember a radio news report about it, perhaps even a day later. A totally unremarkable story, "a third-rate burglary," that was perhaps the closing item on the hour's news.
And so the lying and the cover-up did in the presidency of Nixon, just before a looming impeachment trial.
Will anyone believe that some 14 or 15 years later a sitting president was not impeached for circumventing the will of Congress to subsidize illegal guerrillas in Nicaragua?
Furthermore, will anyone believe, 50 years from now, that a succeeding sitting president was impeached (and acquitted) essentially for lying about his private sex life?
To say nothing of a current president carrying on a misdirected war on basic civil liberties in the name of freedom?
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5 comments:
Ain't it grand? The system only works for those who abuse it correctly.
Politics has everything to do with money and power and absolutely nothing to do with people.
Makes me sick.
Scarlett & Viaggiatore
PS - hey! Come visit my page already please! There's a poem that you may like.
Long live American democracy! A fine tradition of characters who prove Gladstone to be right: 'Power corrupts' and all that...
Puss
hahaha Nixon.... Peace out Homie!
Mon,
Ain't it grand? Or ain't it greed.
WS & V,
But it's the people with the money and the power, no? I'll visit, I'll visit!
P,
You're not suggesting we suck at the royal teat of the royal Mother Country, are you?
S,
Peace indeed, homegurrrrl.
PK
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