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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (212517)	12/2/2004 3:12:16 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574466

Too bad that Peggy Noonan is so biased. I read up on her courtesy of Google Search.... She sees things from one perspective... and it's the one that would please most on this site.. She seems to have strong opinions albeit some not so correct..see Google search on Peggy Noonan

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (212517)	12/2/2004 5:28:07 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574466

I think the bitterness of Nixon's presidential years, the personal darkness he seemed to display, was in part a product of simple human pain, and the pain was the result of this: He had been right and brave and done the right thing in the 1950s, and the American left and its cousin the American establishment would never forgive him for it. And he couldn't stop wanting their approval. He put a traitor named Alger Hiss in jail. The left would make him pay. He paid the price in terms of his personal peace. He handed his enemies a sword. The above paragraph is typical of what I was saying.....it shows clearly the thinking of the right. In their view, it wasn't about the Watergate scandal. It was about some guy named Alger Hiss and the anger it caused the left. It had nothing to do with the fact that Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal and lied about it. And yet, the right impeached Clinton over his lying about Lewinsky. It should be a no brainer as to which is worse........lying about a breakin into Nat. Dem. headquarters or lying about a BJ.....but for the right it is. And for me that speaks volumes. And now the right tries to ignore the Watergate scandal and claims the real reason why poor, poor Nixon was forced out of office was because of this Hiss guy. It doesn't matter that the Hiss guy was very likely innocent and Nixon was a slimy butthead for persecuting him. All I can say is that the causes of the right are often suspect and tend to be mean spirited........and in the end prove to be unnecessary. Thank you for making my case. As for Dan Rather.......he screwed up big time and as a consequence Bush got away with something. When you screw up, you loose your job; that is, except when your name is Bush.