09-22-2018, 06:14 PM
(09-22-2018, 09:08 AM)David Horn Wrote: First, Nixon was never impeached. Instead, a contingent of senior GOP Senators paid him a visit, explained how likely a conviction was (almost certain) and he resigned. LBJ played Texas politics, I'll grant you that, but I don't remember any case where he obstructed justice. FDR also played hardball, in the middle of two existential crises. Trump is just playing for personal profit and aggrandizement. I hope you can see the difference here. I certainly can.I was aware of that and didn't think it needed to be mentioned. I watched him get on the plane while my mom was sitting on the couch sobbing. My mom liked Nixon. Nixon ended a war that she had determined that her present government wasn't willing to win. A war that her two sons may called upon to go over and continue fighting if it continued. He was pressured to resign for an obvious reason and then formally pardoned by Gerald Ford.
I think Trump would be making a lot more money for himself doing what he did before he became president. His kids might be benefiting but not him as President. But, you're free to think whatever you want and believe whatever you want in America today. My view of Trump is this. Trump is very different as far as Republican politicians/presidents go, but he's not all that different as far as liberal politics goes today. It's nice to see a Republican who isn't afraid to fight back and slam liberals, who isn't afraid to lie to liberals like the liberals tend lie to themselves today and isn't afraid play dirty politics like the liberals prefer to play these days.
It's also nice to see a president who isn't afraid do things like imposing tariffs and meeting with the leader of North Korea and opening up diplomatic channels between the North and South Koreans and forcing Europeans to anti-up and contribute more to it's own common defense and actually trying to get a handle on the number of people who are legally/illegally entering this country.