Let’s see. A highly controversial war going on. A Republican incumbant. Who is highly poplular on his own side, and deeply hated on the other, to an extent not usually seen in American politics. An ugly and contentious election. Resulting in a second term for the Republican.
What does that sound like?
1972 maybe?
And look what happened to him 
?
(Sorry. There’s a reason I put this in the Pit. Just trying to cheer people up 
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But Nixon didn’t start the Vietnam war. That all happened well before he first took office.
Let’s see. Spherical in shape. Yellowish in color. Obeys the laws of gravity, and the laws of thermodynamics. Looking at it from the wrong angle could cause severe injury to your eye.
What does that sound like?
The sun maybe?
No, silly, it’s a tennis ball !
(Sorry. There’s a reason I posted this here. Just trying to illustrate a false analogy. :D)
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1322811,00.html
Of course, it also sounds like Lincoln, so you need to be careful about historical comparisons.
Although, look what happened to him, as well…
Didn’t Nixon have a huge win in '72?
It reminds me of this book.
Correct. He bore no direct responsibility for starting the war (I only put in the “direct” because he was part of the communism is a plague school that helped to start it), and look what still happened to him. What got him to his sorry end was an obsession with secrecy and a tendency to view all political opponents as enemies of the state.
It still sounds familiar to me.
Let’s see. A highly controversial war going on. A Democrat incumbant. Who is highly poplular on his own side, and deeply hated on the other, to an extent not usually seen in American politics. An ugly and contentious election. Resulting in a second term for the Democrat.
What does that sound like?
1996 maybe?
And look what happened to him ?
Very good, Desmo!
Then we clearly need to add in something about war time tax cuts!
Steve Bell is a genius. Today’s offering.
I’ve now bookmarked Mr. Bell.
We were at war in 1996? Wow…I really WAS smoking too much dope back then.
Sam
What’s even worse, he had the gall to leave a huge surplus behind.
Well, the war wasn’t so controversial that the Republican party platform made a big deal about it. http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/gop/gop-platform-1996.shtml
What they did say is that Clinton was wrong to not arm the Bosnians, and wrong to allow others to do so. There’s a planet somewhere, I’m sure, where that view is coherent, and I wonder what color the sky is there. The word Kosovo was never mentioned, and neither Bosnia, Herzegovina nor Kosovo was mentioned by Bob Dole while accepting the nomination. Nor did he ever, to my knowledge, speak of it during the campaign. Controversy there was, but the Republicans wanted no part of it.
A President elected largely because of the influence of his father, and despite losing the popular vote was “selected” for the job…
My God! It’s John Quincy Adams redux! 1824 is upon us!
(Okay, the analogy works better with the 2000 election, but chill out)
I’m about ready to give up trying to explain to you smart bookreaders that Congress writes the spending bills. Not Presidents.
Just tell 'em to read your lips.
“Bush is a monkey?” Soul of wit, that.