Campaigning During a Stupid War -- Dems Can Learn From Richard Nixon

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What Dems Can Learn From Richard Nixon About Campaigning During a Stupid War
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 9:48am.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

The conflicts in Iraq and Vietnam have been increasingly compared for their growing similarities. Both are unnecessary failures leading to the deaths of thousands of Americans and innocent people, among other things.

History should have taught the Bush Administration something about what not to do. History can also help Democrats learn how to get the idiots out at election time. A BuzzFlash reader sent in this video clip of a campaign speech from 1968 in which Richard Nixon decries the Vietnam fiasco and urges the need for a change in Washington.

"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively," Nixon said, "and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past."

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I didn't realize that "My pet Goat" was history....

Nixon is recognized by many as a "master politician". Which should be an epithet not a model.