Through his connections, scuttled the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 from behind the scenes, ensuring that the war would not end that year and he could run as the “peace candidate.”
Ran as the “peace candidate,” when in fact he never had any intention of ending the war (which he had decided long before was pointless and unwinnable) on any terms that could not be considered an American victory.
Kept the war going – and expanded it, into Laos and Cambodia – until he was forced out of office, leaving Ford to wind it up.
I have pointed this out several times - this is a willful misreading of what went down.
Bush downplayed initial reports of damage - it was Congressional Republicans that reopened the issue by directing the GAO to conduct an investigation. And while that likely makes little difference to you, it doesn’t change the fact that you are wrong.
I doubt it. However, it might be going better because this time, the election was clearly decided on Tuesday night, not fought about bitterly over the following weeks.
Of course, it doesn’t change the fact that whatever vandalism that occurred as Clinton left office happened after any pre-inauguration transition efforts by Bush, and could not possibility have hampered his transition team, making Shodan’s post just another bullshit example of “Yeah, but Clinton…”
Of course, what really would have been hampering the Bush transition team’s efforts at this point in 2000 was the fact that it was only about at this point that the various court cases deciding the election were decided. They certainly did get dealt a pretty shitty hand as far as that goes. It’s a good thing we didn’t find ourselves dealing with both that mess and the current economic meltdown at the same time.
Most American’s are too dumb for an Obama presidency.
That would be the Americans who didn’t vote, computed with the following formula:
1-(( Obama_voters + McCain_voters)/US population) = 1-(69,058,185+59,700,776)/305,847,124 = 57% of American’s are too dumb for an Obama presidency.
A slightly more cynical person might use this formula:
1-(Obama_voters/US population) = 1-(69,058,185)/305,847,124 = 77% of American’s are too dumb for an Obama presidency.
Gee, I’m so fucking sorry that I didn’t know WHICH PART of Bush’s team were the whiney titty babies. But then you KNEW that I “willfully midread” this because of what now? Bite me.
And, of course, you are incorrect - the Bush team was forced to deal with the sort of people who engage in petty vandalism thru out the transition, who had every opportunity to hamper the transition - with, for instance, lawsuits and whining.
Strange, though - Bush has been getting a lot of credit for making the current transition as painless as possible for the new president (or at least as much as external events will allow.) An unprecedented amount of planning has been done at every federal agency, and the Office of the President-Elect has been elevated to far more stature than previously held.
Frankly, I give Obama and Bush alike credit for this - they have been going about this the right way. The variable seems to be Bill Clinton, and we can surmise from how he handled himself in January of 2001 that he hadn’t gone about making things easier for the incoming administration. Indeed, even on Inauguration Day he was still inspecting troops and doing his level best to hog the spotlight for as many minutes as he could.
Ah yes, how I well remember how Bill Clinton was trying to thwart Mr. Bush’s orderly transition at every opportunity.
Wait, I don’t
You would not have a cite would you? Hopefully something stronger than “hogging the spotlight”. That seems very lame.
A rhetorical question? How long are we going to have to put up with the fairytale that Bush would have been a great president if it were not for that Pesky Clinton?
Jesus Christ-how is this different from any other “elite” institution trying to attract people who have demonstrated academic achievement in some measurable fashion? Take a gander at the academic backgrounds of anyone at a top law firm-nearly all of them are cut from the same Top 25 school cloth-and honestly, most of them are Top 14. And they have GPA requirements on top of that (Baker and Mackenzie once automatically kicked me off the OCI list because my GPA was something like .01 below their cut-off, my ex-boyfriend got rejected from Skadden Arps as head of the law journal at UCLA). Where do all the monkeys in private equity, hedge funds, and investment banks come from? Have you taken a look at the application to work at Google? They bloody well ask for your SAT score the last time I was looked! Is Mr. Moto whining about the recruiting policies at Cravath, Oppenheimer and Google?
All these institutions make a small percentage exception for people who may not have attended Ivy+ schools but have proven themselves with stellar GPAs, publications, and the sort of snivelling rapacious social climbing ambition necessary to claw your way into and up the ladder at these places. If you spend umpteen hours on the Dope, you don’t have it. If you did you’d be too busy grubbing your nose to the grindstone and stabbing your co-workers in the back to climb to the top of the midden heap to spend any time pontificating to the masses on the internet.
Granted these morons greedily ran the economy into the ground but until someone complaining about Obama’s appointees makes the case that Berkshire Hathaway ought to be managed by Koko the Gorilla and Sarah Palin they ought to just shut up.
Goddamn, the next four years are going to be the last 8 years in reverse. Bush does maybe one thing half right and the lefts still jump all over him. Obama decides maybe he’d like the goblins in charge of your tax money to have aspired to more than the Staten Island Community College School of Finance and Such and it’s a “damn shame folks like us won’t get the chance to serve.” Well, fuck, this is America, the land of Second and Third Educational chances. If you screwed up undergrad, study hard for your LSATs and Nixon it up to the White House. It’s not like he went anywhere special for undergrad either (couldn’t afford it).
I actually did see a porn film in which someone wore a Nixon mask, but it was not during a naughty part. It was a brief interlude when a main character walked past a used-car lot, and Nixon was a salesman trying to get him to buy a used car. This was back in the days when porn movies still had story lines.
