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Place Nixon on Mt. Rushmore?
Topic Started: Nov 24 2011, 04:50 AM (331 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/283912/nixon-half-way-mount-rushmore-conrad-black
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Mikhailoh
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A most excellent article, Jolly. Well worth reading and considering. I would have liked to have seen more.
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John D'Oh
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I suspect the author has a bit of a soft spot for criminals. I shudder to think how he got it.
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Mark
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WTF?

Mt. Rushmore's state should be frozen exactly like it is and no face should ever be added to it.
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Mark
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If we added anyone to that rock I fear that radicals from either side would attempt to deface or destroy it.

It's kind of weird that it exists in the first place.

Idols and all that.
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John D'Oh
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Mark
Nov 24 2011, 09:06 AM
WTF?
A convicted felon is trying to sell his book, that's WTF.
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Renauda
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And a Peer of the Realm no less.
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Mikhailoh
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I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting Nixon's face be added to Mt. Rushmore. It was a device to get the reader to consider Nixon's record.
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Renauda
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Mikhailoh
Nov 24 2011, 10:06 AM
I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting Nixon's face be added to Mt. Rushmore.
I should hope not. Think about the cheap jokes surrounding four president's and one Dick's head on the mountain face.
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Renauda
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mt Rushmore from the Canadian side

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John D'Oh
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Mikhailoh
Nov 24 2011, 10:06 AM
I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting Nixon's face be added to Mt. Rushmore. It was a device to get the reader to consider Nixon's record.
I only skimmed the article, but he appeared to miss the bit out about him being a nasty, vindictive SOB.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Jolly
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John D'Oh
Nov 24 2011, 03:12 PM
Mikhailoh
Nov 24 2011, 10:06 AM
I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting Nixon's face be added to Mt. Rushmore. It was a device to get the reader to consider Nixon's record.
I only skimmed the article, but he appeared to miss the bit out about him being a nasty, vindictive SOB.
If you are among the most effective politicians of your era, does that matter?
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John D'Oh
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Jolly
Nov 24 2011, 04:02 PM
John D'Oh
Nov 24 2011, 03:12 PM
Mikhailoh
Nov 24 2011, 10:06 AM
I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting Nixon's face be added to Mt. Rushmore. It was a device to get the reader to consider Nixon's record.
I only skimmed the article, but he appeared to miss the bit out about him being a nasty, vindictive SOB.
If you are among the most effective politicians of your era, does that matter?
Nastiness and vindictiveness generally matters to the victims. I don't really hold with the idea of the end justifying the means.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Jolly
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John D'Oh
Nov 24 2011, 04:08 PM
Jolly
Nov 24 2011, 04:02 PM
John D'Oh
Nov 24 2011, 03:12 PM
Mikhailoh
Nov 24 2011, 10:06 AM
I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting Nixon's face be added to Mt. Rushmore. It was a device to get the reader to consider Nixon's record.
I only skimmed the article, but he appeared to miss the bit out about him being a nasty, vindictive SOB.
If you are among the most effective politicians of your era, does that matter?
Nastiness and vindictiveness generally matters to the victims. I don't really hold with the idea of the end justifying the means.
I understand your point, but only Nixon could go to China.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. I seriously doubt Nixon did much of anything in that respect that others did not, it was just the style in which he did it. LBJ was not someone you wanted to cross either.
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John D'Oh
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Whatever Nixon's qualities, this attempt to rehabilitate him seems rather forced.

Still, it's better than trying to re-portray McCarthy as an American patriot, as some have attempted.
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Mark
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Jolly
Nov 25 2011, 05:29 AM
only Nixon could go to China.
What a load of crap.
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Jolly
Nov 25 2011, 05:29 AM
I understand your point, but only Nixon could go to China.
Because anyone else would have been red-baited by Nixon.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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John D'Oh
Nov 25 2011, 06:12 AM
Still, it's better than trying to re-portray McCarthy as an American patriot, as some have attempted.
Funny you should say that, when I saw this piece by Black I thought 'he's following in Ann Coulter's footsteps'.
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John D'Oh
Nov 24 2011, 04:08 PM
I don't really hold with the idea of the end justifying the means.
I'm all for it so long as the end result is justifiable.
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Mark
Nov 24 2011, 09:06 AM
WTF?

Mt. Rushmore's state should be frozen exactly like it is and no face should ever be added to it.

I can't imagine any way that Mr. Obama's face will not be on Mt. Rushmore. And slightly bigger than the other 4.

It is a stone cold lead pipe lock.

He will be on there in our lifetimes.
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Mark
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I hope you're wrong about that Copper.
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He's historic.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Copper
Nov 25 2011, 04:52 PM
He's historic.
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True, Dat.

Sorry, I meant "that." :tomato:
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