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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (162141)	7/18/2001 2:28:52 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

No, for a president or public leader, its dumb, but not defamatory. AS is in no better a position to know personal aspects of these public figures than we are: only seeing what he/she reads in the press or watches on TV, and drawing conclusions from that. You draw your conclusions, AS draws his/hers. History generally yields it truths over an excruciatingly long period of time...

To: jlallen who wrote (162141)	7/18/2001 2:37:34 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

To further clarify: Richard Nixon was not a "crook". His personal characteristics were far more complex than a simple term would describe, but there is no evidence that he had the slightest inclination to line his pockets in public service, and that he was not fully aware that he could have become far wealthier remaining a practicing lawyer rather than going into politics. Yet the left has repeatedly referred to him as a "crook" since Watergate. The error of the left is not the use of that term, but the anti-American passions that drove them to hate him for his achievements. I consider any argument with the left about Richard Nixon that has, as its central theme, whether or not he was a "crook" to be entirely mis-directed. The leftie has always lost the Nixon debate when he starts calling him a "crook"...