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 LL> Republicans had to beg Richard Nixon to resign from office.
 LL> Democrats had threatened, but were never really serious,

 Repubicans decided Nixon had to go, back then Republicans could
 actually agree with Democrats when the facts were obvious. A lot
 time.

 LL> about impeaching the guy or removing him from office.  And
 LL> to think Republicans almost pulled it off, with Gerald Ford
 LL> losing a very close race to Jimmy Carter.

 I blame the pardon for that.

 LL> That was back in 1976, when politicians still had brains.

 Oh, you already made that point.

 LL> Fast forward to 2000, the beginning of the end of politics.

 I think the Nixon pardon was. It was the start on the downhill
 slope.

 LL> Republicans had impeached, but not removed from office)
 LL> President Clinton, who was already barred by the
 LL> Constitution from being able to run for a third consecutive
 LL> term.  If Bill Clinton would have had any brains, he would
 LL> have resigned from office.

 He should have finished at least 2 yrs of his second term, but I
 don't think resigning would have done that much good, and it
 would have encouraged the right to do that over and over.

 LL> President Gore would easily
 LL> have defeated the Republican upstart, George W. Bush, and
 LL> there would have been no 9-11.

 The first part is questionable, but surely possible, the second
 could very well have been true.

 LL> We all know what happened next.  Al Gore won the presidency,
 LL> but was never allowed to hold his properly elected office.

 Yep. Which could possibly be the fatal blow to this country.

 LL> Joe Biden has been involved in 67 political races.
 LL> As far as I know, Joe Biden remains undefeated, and
 LL> will be 73 years young in 2016 ...

 He also suffers from foot in mouth disease. Sad.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... "I'll just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow..."
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