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Uppity Water Nymph from the Land of Funk
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The similarities are eerie and telling.
An historical comparison of Nixon and Hillary quotes:
Woodward’s impression is justified, and not just by the steady drip, drip of new secrets in the latest batch of Clinton emails released by the State Department on Monday. There is also a remarkable resonance between Nixon’s statements during the evolving Watergate crisis and Clinton’s public statements regarding her emails:
The people come first
Nixon: I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.
Clinton: I think it's kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about.
I want to get the facts out ...
Nixon: I want the public to learn the truth about Watergate and those guilty of any illegal actions brought to justice.
Clinton: I want it all out there.
...because they are on my side
Nixon: The facts will prove that the president is telling the truth.
Clinton: That does not change the facts, and no matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn.
There has been unprecedented openness ...
Nixon: We have waived executive privilege on all individuals within the administration. It has been the greatest waiver of executive privilege in the whole history of this nation.
Clinton: I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public.
Much more at the link:
Hillary Clinton is not an email crook: Column
An historical comparison of Nixon and Hillary quotes:
Woodward’s impression is justified, and not just by the steady drip, drip of new secrets in the latest batch of Clinton emails released by the State Department on Monday. There is also a remarkable resonance between Nixon’s statements during the evolving Watergate crisis and Clinton’s public statements regarding her emails:
The people come first
Nixon: I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.
Clinton: I think it's kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about.
I want to get the facts out ...
Nixon: I want the public to learn the truth about Watergate and those guilty of any illegal actions brought to justice.
Clinton: I want it all out there.
...because they are on my side
Nixon: The facts will prove that the president is telling the truth.
Clinton: That does not change the facts, and no matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn.
There has been unprecedented openness ...
Nixon: We have waived executive privilege on all individuals within the administration. It has been the greatest waiver of executive privilege in the whole history of this nation.
Clinton: I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public.
Much more at the link:
Hillary Clinton is not an email crook: Column