The Petra Zone

Just a little bit of pre-election fun... not to be taken too seriously!

100% dubya, its a landslide (8 to 0)

It goina be fun to sit back and watch John John try to tell us what exlaty they belive.



And not change there mind the next time asked.

I think we all get it that John and John have a vision, that they have a plan for Iraq, for the economy, the war on terror, etc.? But does anyone actually know what that is?
All I've heard is I have a plan, big oil, haliburton, George Bush is a screw up.
I think the truth is, they have plan and we can know what it is, but they can't run on it because it will never sell. Instead they will try to make people fearful of GWB.

I heard Michael Savage's full description of Kerry and his wife Ter-AY-sa last night:

Lurch and Nurse Ratchet

HAHAHAHAHAHA

i voted for dubya

Matthew RJ wrote:My knowledge of American politics is rather limited, which is understandable since I live in a different country ...

but can someone fill me in on what Watergate was all about? Didn't really learn that in school.

There's a lot that goes into Watergate, but I'll try and be brief...

Basically, at least as far back as Woodrow Wilson, US Presidents had been illegally using "covert ops" to gather information of all kinds. This included such things as phone tapping, wire tapping rooms, and stealing the opposition's files.

While this was going on, the press knew about it, but chose to cover it up.

Nixon was not popular with the media, but was very popular with American citizens, which really got under the media's skin. Any chance that they had to smear his name, they did.

The Watergate "scandal" was basically a minor "covert op" which involved several Nixon underlings who were attempting to break into an office building to try and steal some files on someone. The press took it and ran with it. For the first time ever, the media decided not to cover up a Presidetial scandal. The odd thing is, of all the scandals they could have reported on, they chose one which never could provably be linked straight to Nixon, but only to associates of his.

Sep, that was a great explanation. Thanks.

...such a loaded question....

Oh, Oh. Someone voted for Lurch. Anyone care to fess up?

Petrapraise wrote:...such a loaded question....

How is it a loaded question?

Okay... I get it. The vote for Lurch is supposed to be a joke?

...such a loaded question..

I was referring to the original topic.

Here's a different take on Watergate. For great insight into the subject you can read Charles Colson's wonderful book, Life Sentence.

Politics is full of "dirty tricks," and has been forever. Watergate was a small operation undertaken by a fringe White House associate before the '72 election to break into Democrat Party HQ and steal information. Nixon had nothing to do with planning or ordering the break-in, but after the story broke, he tried to protect the people involved out of a sense of loyalty. He behaved terribly during the investigation and a number of highly ranked aides to the President ended up in prison. Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment, and his successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned him for any lawbreaking.

Green party all the way! Heh heh heh