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As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country it will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone….

This crusade would have involved wholeheartedly military action against armed Islamists; closed borders throughout the West to prevent any more Muslims from entering, regardless of how cute the children are; education at home aimed at getting Westerners to understand the threat and to tear young Muslims away from their affiliation to a conquering faith; and constant vigilance.

Moreover, they may have been aided in this regard by Barack Obama’s increasingly manifest hatred for Israel, the world’s only Jewish state.

Vince wrote:Yeah, remember how he sucked their dick by suggesting they go back to borders from before the 7 day war? They were so cozy together during that visit.

I think "seething indifference and incompetence" is more accurate when speaking of Obama's position about anything.

Obama is more like, "I don't care what you think or want, this is how I see you proceeding".

Malcolm wrote:

Obama is more like, "I don't care what you think or want, this is how I see you proceeding".

The attitude of every prez in our lifetimes. Fuck that, every politician in DC.

Most Presidents in the past, including W, managed to work with a majority of the other party in congress.

I think the "worst president since WW2" ranking is only going to grow stronger as his time passes, not less.

People are starting to realize what Nixon did pretty much pales in comparison to Obama...

People are longing for W's 5.5% unemployment rate and $2.00 gasoline.

And Carter has his humanitarian stuff.

Malcolm wrote:

People are starting to realize what Nixon did pretty much pales in comparison to Obama...

When did this happen? Did B. Rock order a break in performed by the most amateur fuckwits he could find and have several feature films made about it?

People are longing for W's 5.5% unemployment rate and $2.00 gasoline.

The last time I paid $2 for gasoline must've been fucking high school. That shit ain't coming back until we get some energy policy shit sorted out, which is something else every prez since Three Mile Island has dropped the ball on.

And Carter has his humanitarian stuff.

That's the closest comparison I can see. Dude who came in, was the exact opposite of his predecessor, and looked decent by comparison for a couple years. If B. Rock had come in after Clinton, he'd be getting destroyed.

Actually, Nixon covered up the break-in once it became obvious that someone in his administration ordered it.

Physical evidence that might have corroborated the testimony was destroyed by a number of people involved in and peripheral to the first burglary, including G. Gordon Liddy, Jeb Magruder, John Dean, and the acting head of the FBI at the time, L. Patrick Gray, who resigned after his admission of destruction of evidence that had been taken from the safe of E. Howard Hunt.

Howard Hunt, one of the two admitted co-commanders, said under oath in congressional testimony that the reason for the first burglary was because G. Gordon Liddy "had information" from "a government agency" that "the Cuban government was supplying funds to the Democratic Party." Hunt said that to "investigate this report, a surreptitious entry of Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate was made." No such report from a government agency was produced in evidence, and no other physical evidence is in the record to support or corroborate this motive.

G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt's co-commander has never cited Cuban contributions to the Democrats as a motive for a first burglary. For several decades, Liddy never cited any reason for the first burglary except for an oral order Liddy said he received in a private meeting with Nixon adviser Jeb Magruder, which Liddy says took place "toward the end of April" 1972. According to Liddy, Magruder said that he "wanted to hear anything that was going on inside the office of Larry O'Brien, who was the chairman of the DNC" (and who was in Miami, Florida at the time); that Magruder "wanted to be able to monitor his [O'Brien's] telephone conversations;" and that "if there was anything else lying around," that was to be photographed.

Magruder met with White House Counsel John Dean and John N. Mitchell (Attorney General of the United States and Director of CREEP) on January 27 and February 4, 1972, to review preliminary plans by G. Gordon Liddy (Counsel to CREEP) for intelligence gathering ideas for the 1972 campaign. The Watergate burglaries would evolve from those meetings.

Magruder was the only direct participant of the scandal to claim that President Nixon had specific prior knowledge of the Watergate burglary, and that Nixon actually directed Mitchell to proceed with the burglary, which was organized by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt.