Originally posted by Dan20:


If I remember correcty, Jack Ruby died of natural causes in prison, though I think he went nuts by the end.

Originally posted by Samuel Catalino:


Nixon was no more of a great president than Clinton. I find Clinton pretty much the same as I do Nixon.

Originally posted by Dan20:


Well, the Alger Hiss case continues to be debated.
As for comparisons to McCarthy, I don't want to get into specific similarities and contrasts, but Nixon made quite a lot of ridiculous anti-Commie statements and built a lot of his political career by hunting down Reds on every corner.

Originally posted by RichJohnston:
JFK's enduring legacy will be the push to ensure there was a man on the moon in 69.

And that he pushed Doctor Who's first episode to Saturday night where it stayed and prospered after the football.

Originally posted by Ken Rothstein:


Supposedly, he died of Cancer in prison in 1967. It is terribly convenient he died so soon.

Ruby was interviewed in 1965 by Dorothy Kilgallen. Wouldn't you know it, she just happened to commit suicide soon after and before she could publish what was in the interview.

Her friend, who was rumored to have had her notes, died a couple of days later.

Too many deaths from such a small pool of individuals for me.

Originally posted by Ken Rothstein:


I don't know how you got on Clinton, but the two have nothing in common.

Clinton's crimes all relate to personal goings on, and nothing like Watergate. Republicans, such as yourself, can't get over Clinton and hate him without really knowing why.

His major crime is he stopped the conservative revolution of the 1990s, outsmarted and outpoliticked republicans at every turn, stopped the insane drive to stack the courts with conservative idealogues, managed to balance budgets, be president at a time of wall street growth, and the people liked him despite his not adhering to the narrow terms of morals or values that republicans want everyone (else) to live by.

He was a great President because he outmaneuvered Newt Gingrich, and it was the crusade against Clinton that led to the end of Gingrich. The entire world owes Clinton a debt that can never be paid for that alone.

Now if you want to look at crooks, try looking at Jr Bush, and his lying to start a war, the way he stopped the justice dept from investigating Ken Lay, and how he has managed to send billions to Dick Cheney's pals. It seems inconceivable that the justice dept is going after Martha Stewart for her $250,000 move, but sees nothing wrong with the millions upon millions Mr Lay and Enron stole.

Originally posted by Korvac:
Republicans will never get over the fact that the American people didn't give two craps over, as Chris Rock put it 'A man lying about receiving a blowjob.'

The guy presided over the longest period of sustained economic growth in history, improved America's standing worldwide and worked decisivly against Al Qaida and terrorism in general. Then Bush came in and completely ignored all the Clinton White House's warnings about bin Laden and Al Qaida and won military engagements decisively, initially, in both Afghanistan and Iraq with a military whose structure Clinton oversaw for eight years.

He wasn't a Liberal. He was, at best, a moderate, but even that is too much for the Far Right who really do believe the un-medicated ravings of Anne Coulter when she screeches that everyone who doesn't think exactly as they do is a traitor.