Buchanan on GOP and Fox linking Obama to Nixon: ‘It is the most idiotic comparison...

[Life_Long_Dem!]

Taking cues from their communications shop over at Fox News, GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) yesterday attacked the White House’s campaign against Fox’s unethical journalistic practices by comparing President Obama to President Nixon. “Let’s not start calling people out and compiling an enemies list,” Alexander said, touting his days as a junior staffer in the Nixon White House as credentials for his charge. Gregg said he was “fascinated” by Alexander’s criticism and wondered if Obama is “Nixon-fying” the White House. But yesterday on MSNBC, top Nixon aide Pat Buchanan dismissed out-of-hand any comparison of Obama to Nixon:

BUCHANAN: It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen. Barack Obama won 95 percent of Washington DC, he comes in with both houses Congress behind him, the media love him, the country loves him. Nixon came in with both houses of Congress against him, he probably got 8 percent of the vote in Washington DC, the media loathed him. … I don’t see any comparison between Obama and Nixon whatsoever. … [T]here’s no comparison. Barack Obama’s got enormous press support, he’s got problems with Fox News but for heaven’s sakes there is no comparison here.

“I also have to laugh,” liberal talk radio host Bill Press said during the segment. “When two Republicans want to hurt a Democrat, what do they do? They compare him to another Republican. It’s crazy.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/22/buchanan-obama-nixon/

[kres24GT]

It's beyond idiotic, was idiotic when people did it to Bush too. This is two party politics though.


It really amazes me Obama is almost and exact clone of Bush, sure they have some slight differences, but in the big picture they agree, borrow from the Chinese and spend spend spend on entitlements, corporate bailouts, and pointless wars.

The internet and 24 hour news age has really divided us more than ever. When it gets down to it, most folks agree on most things, yet we are constantly divided pretty much by 2 letters of the alphabet. This board is a great example, 98% of the posts are nothing but one side attacking the other, it's 80% negative. And during election time it's closer to 95%.


When we see boards with people attacking politicians in general and not constantly singling out one party over the other, that is when we will have made progress. Until then politics is basically like a rival football game where both sides hate each other no matter what.

I am a huge sports fan, college football fan especially, and post on a college football board as well. Take and Ohio State fan and a Michigan fan and look at their threads arguing with each other, it's basically the same as a righty and lefty posting here.


When the OSU fans post stats backing up his team's superiority, the Michigan fan claims they are just spinning numbers. When the Michigan fan posts numbers backing up his team's superiority, they are facts and indisputable.

When the Michigan fan's team's star player gets arrested it was a misunderstanding and no big deal. When the OSU fan's team's star player gets arrested he is a thug.

When the Ohio State loses to Michigan on a bad calls, the refs were cheating for Michigan. When Ohio St. beats Michigan on a bad call, "bad calls are part of the game."


Until we unite against politicians and stop treating the R and D thing like some sort of sports rivalry every president will be compared to Hitler by the other side.

[Mason66]

Taking cues from their communications shop over at Fox News, GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) yesterday attacked the White House’s campaign against Fox’s unethical journalistic practices by comparing President Obama to President Nixon. “Let’s not start calling people out and compiling an enemies list,” Alexander said, touting his days as a junior staffer in the Nixon White House as credentials for his charge. Gregg said he was “fascinated” by Alexander’s criticism and wondered if Obama is “Nixon-fying” the White House. But yesterday on MSNBC, top Nixon aide Pat Buchanan dismissed out-of-hand any comparison of Obama to Nixon:

BUCHANAN: It is the most idiotic comparison I’ve ever seen. Barack Obama won 95 percent of Washington DC, he comes in with both houses Congress behind him, the media love him, the country loves him. Nixon came in with both houses of Congress against him, he probably got 8 percent of the vote in Washington DC, the media loathed him. … I don’t see any comparison between Obama and Nixon whatsoever. … [T]here’s no comparison. Barack Obama’s got enormous press support, he’s got problems with Fox News but for heaven’s sakes there is no comparison here.

“I also have to laugh,” liberal talk radio host Bill Press said during the segment. “When two Republicans want to hurt a Democrat, what do they do? They compare him to another Republican. It’s crazy.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/22/buchanan-obama-nixon/

I would like to know what this means.

Is the article trying to say the communications shop at Fox News belongs to the 2 senators?

LLD, did you post this because you do not see the similarities between the Obama WH and the Nixon WH?

Obama is not only going after Fox but the Chamber of Commerce and Rush and a few others. Sure looks like an enemy list. That didn't work well for Nixon and it won't work well here.

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[disrupter]

Nixon did hatchet jobs & character assassinations behind the scenes using criminal tactics.

Obama slams them right up front in their faces like a real man does.

Not like the nasty, crooked, evil, criminal radical reactionaries.