Nixon was going to be impeached for lying. Clinton was too. There is zero difference correct?

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But everyone still looks down on Nixon. Thats messed up.

nefairyousfx at least Nixon didn't supply coke to America via Mena Arkansas, sell our military secrets to the chinese, launder money through the Rose Law firm, sit back and do nothing everytime a terroist killed or attempted to kill americans ect. You are the sucka for voting for one so disloyal to AMericans. Slick Willy-the name speaks for itself, and not one ounce of intergrity.

Answer 1

Well, actually, Nixon wouldn't give evidence (blanks on tapes) and he was suspected of lying.

Clinton, with much irony, violated and broke a law HE signed while in office. Then he reported falsely and got caught with evidence to support it.

Nixon managed to do some great political maneuvers in his carrier. Most of which have been obscured by the politically correct rendition of history.

Clinton, well, he managed to avoid making any serious decisions. Made us a laughing stock in the world with his questionable leadership in Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Nixon respected his office, and the nation, so he decided to resign in order to keep some of the prestige of the Presidency intact.

What is messed up is how Clinton flushed the reputation of our nation into a toilet and seemingly came out a hero...

Answer 2

The difference between the two isn't so much as what they did, but the difference in two major areas. The first is the view that sex is not immoral between consenting adults even if one is married and much older than the other. The other is that the office of President of the United States is not held in the same regard as it was prior to the Watergate scandal. With the involvement of the President in the spying on the Democratic party it made people believe that the President was not powerful, and it also made people suspicious of the men in office and made the media work at bringing our Presidents down because as the example they set with Watergate, Presidents are not "good" men. When Clinton was in office The idea changed that the president was a victim of a vast right wing conspiracy and that lying about receiving oral sex was not a big deal.

Answer 3

Nixon had class enough to abdicate, Clinton didn't, he continued to contaminate the White House and make the USA look bad in the eyes of the world(but then, who cares what the world thinks, most of it is leftist). Both were in love with communist Red China, Nixon wanted trade, Clinton wanted to give them our military secrets..... wanted to? by all appearances, ole billy boy did.

Clinton lied just to lie.... something he did with gusto every day. He did not show any loyalty to the USA.

The only fault that can be put on Nixon is, stopping the bombing of communist North Vietnam when it was accomplishing its goal.

Answer 4

I know you can count better than that! Richard Nixon was going to be not only impeached but also found guilty. Richard Nixon resigned before he was impeached to avoid prison time. Bill Clinton was found innocent of any impeachable offense. So he was vindicated.
Come on, get your history book out and read.

Answer 5

wow,
i can't believe your serious.

one involved abuse of presdential power, wire taps, using the CIA ops to break in to rival headquater, and illegal use of the government power for revenge on enemies and oppostion. There is some other stuff we don't even know about......


clinton lied about his relation with an intern.


you are silly or not intellegent.
so which is it.


I guess the biggest F you i could point out was that Clinton didn't need Ford to pardon him.

F you number two would be....... Bush is at Nixion poll numbers during watergate.........and thats without Bush being implicated for his crimes.......YET.
Clinton held a 70 approval rating during......

the people knew it was all theater..put on by the right wing smear machine.

sucka.

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Edit and Responce.
apperently you enjoy the shame of being wrong.

Hey everyone!!!!!
you want to know why Ned B is soo full of S###


with his chinese secrets laundering ect ect......

Because after millions and millions of dollars for investagations paid for by Clintons enemies.
After countless lies debunked ranging from whitewater to troopergate..........

after Ken Starr was on Clinton for years, millions of dollars by Mellonscafe to smear Clinton..........

in the end it came down a blue dress.....and the defintions of "is".


Thats how we know your full of it with your tabloid non sense.
if any of it were true the Republican Congress would have burned him alive at the stake..........

People read
Blinded by the Right.
by David Brock


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400047285/sr=8-1/qid=1155020583/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4989342-8371369?ie=UTF8

its the story of how Brock was part of the Right wing smear machine and how they tried to hunt and smear clinton...great read.


part two of the continuing punking of Ned B.
Clinton didn't know who did the Cole,
And as for the First Trade towers he caught and convicted those responsible without the need to declare more powers than the constition provided.
without the patroit act to spy on americans....that have nothing to do with terrorism.......

and with regards to the cole, this is what Bush's adminstration had to say....

RICE: I do not believe to this day that it would have been a good thing to respond to the Cole, given the kinds of options that we were going to have. ... We really thought that the Cole incident was passed, that you didn't want to respond tit-for-tat. ...

Just responding to another attack in an insufficient way we thought would actually probably embolden the terrorists -- they had been emboldened by everything else that had been done to them -- and that the best course was to look ahead to a more aggressive strategy against them.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/clarke.rice/index.html

Answer 6

Big difference, Nixon sent his boys to break into the Watergate hotel to scam some bad info on his butt. That's accessory and attempt to receive stolen property, not to mention malicious destruction of property.

Clinton just lied that he got a hummer. The same people who were crying about that probable never had one.

Answer 7

they were both impeached.... no difference they both lied... they both tried to cover up their lies.. I'm no fan of Nixon, but good old BJ Clinton was no winner...he tainted the office of presidency and embarrassed our whole nation...as president - he should be above reproach , he should be someone that children look up to to emulate.... his sexual relations with a multitude of women ( not just Monica) was only one of many things he did in office as well as prior to attaining the office... the Clinton's received campaign contributions from many unscrupulous sources in exchange for favors , some that were repaid in pardons before he left office, he also conveniently had reports on him " disappear" and tried to extinguish web sites that revealed negative information on him... he may have been most famous for having sex in the oval office - but by no means was that the only shady thing he did...

Answer 8

Nixon didn't outright lie himself. He authorized cash for cover-ups. Bush is lying his @ss off. Unfortunately, if he got impeached, Cheney would take over. He's a lot smarter and MORE dangerous.

Answer 9

It really depends what you're lying about. A political scandal is worse than a personal one, in my opinion, because the president is there to make sure the state works well and to ensure political functions. It is not his job to be the perfect husband.

Answer 10

I agree. Everyone should look down on Clinton too.