Comments on: WHO IS DEEP THROAT #2?

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:33:04 +0000

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Already happened. Ever hear of Daniel Elsberg?

By: MARTIN STRICKLAND

MARTIN STRICKLAND — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:25:03 +0000

DEEPTHROAT WAS A REAL AMERICAN HERO.HE EXPOSED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY THAT WENT ALL THE WAY TO OUR WHITE HOUSE.

I HOPE THERE IS A DEEPTHROAT WATCHING THIS WHITE HOUSE AND HAS THE COURAGE TO EXPOSE THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY THAT THE BUSH MOB DOES ON A DAILY BASIS.

By: c.c.rocco

c.c.rocco — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:31:29 +0000

FELT BELIEVED IN HIS OWN INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW, AS LONG AS IT MET HIS PERSONAL OBJECTIVES. TOO BAD HE CANNOT BE CHARGED UNDER THE APPLICABLE STATUTE AT THIS POINT. WHAT NEXT? MAYBE A PROGRAMMER IN THE PENTAGON WHO IS NOT HAPPY AND GIVES OUT SENSITIVE DATA BECAUSE HE DIDN’T GET PROMOTED. THE MEDIA LOVES THESE KIND OF PEOPLE, LABELING THEM HEROES.

By: Fresh Air

Fresh Air — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:55:42 +0000

Tom–

What the eff are you talking about?

a. What makes you think Nixon had no humility? He resigned didn’t he? (More than one can say for another president of recent vintage I can name.)

(b) What does humility have to do with being a “real” American?

I think there may a point in there somewhere, but I didn’t see what it was.

By: tom phagan

tom phagan — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:47:06 +0000

of all the talk about how great or not is irrelevent when you take into account that 50,000 Americans died because Nixon did`nt have what it takes to be a real American, and that is humility.

By: Fresh Air

Fresh Air — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:24:02 +0000

That’s a fair point. His reservoir of support among conservatives was pretty shallow too, I guess. Still, take a look at some of his old campaign photos. The guy was pretty popular for a time. The revisionist notion of him always being this sinister figure in the White House out to knife everybody who got in his way just wasn’t operative before Watergate.

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:35:35 +0000

Strategist…you got me there. However, he never connected to the American people like a Clinton or Reagan or come to think of it any President after him. They all had a resevoir of support that Nixon didn’t have.

It payed off for Reagan during Iran Contra and Clinton with Monica. Nixon just couldn’t overcome his difficulties.

By: Fresh Air

Fresh Air — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:31:11 +0000

Nixon was a brilliant strategist and a political visionary. While he may not have understood the conservative movement, he did understand politics quite well. I think you are being unfair to his political skills. IIRC he only lost one election, that being the presidency in 1960. He also had the decency not to contest it, though he could have. Would that Al Gore had learned that lesson.

By: Mr. Dart

Mr. Dart — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:58:36 +0000

Rick writes:”He was an average politician, personally unpopular even with conservatives.” He was unpopular with conservatives because he wasn’t one. He used to ask Buchanan, “What do they want.” The “they” being conservatives. They try to lump Nixon in with the Conservative movement to discredit the same– but those of us who were active then NEVER saw Nixon as even remotely a conservative.

By: Classical Values

Classical Values — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:44:02 +0000

A lie about a lie about a lie?
If Deep Throat was Mark Felt, then Woodward was lying. About Deep Throat, of course. And if Woodward was lying, considering that Deep Throat was Woodward’s (and Bernstein’s) construct, then why the fuss about Deep Throat? I’m just not buying….