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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael M who wrote (79368)5/5/2000 6:50:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The paranoia might have been understandable; some of the actions based on it at least bordered on lunacy. The thing I never understood about the whole Watergate incident was the total superfluity of it all: Nixon was running against one of the least electable candidates ever presented, and no serious analyst believed that his position was threatened. Why bother? Was there no analysis of risk vs. benefit? The whole campaign followed the same pattern: the overwhelming fundraising, the retention of the entire hoard for the Presidential campaign, even when partymates in Congress needed it desperately. And what sane politician would form or approve a fundraising arm called the Committee to Re-Elect the President, knowing that it would immediately and forever be known as CREEP?

Lunacy is perhaps too strong a word, but there was something odd going on in there.
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