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    LL> Republicans had to beg Richard Nixon to resign from office.   
    LL> Democrats had threatened, but were never really serious,   
      
    Repubicans decided Nixon had to go, back then Republicans could   
    actually agree with Democrats when the facts were obvious. A lot   
    time.   
      
    LL> about impeaching the guy or removing him from office.  And   
    LL> to think Republicans almost pulled it off, with Gerald Ford   
    LL> losing a very close race to Jimmy Carter.   
      
    I blame the pardon for that.   
      
    LL> That was back in 1976, when politicians still had brains.   
      
    Oh, you already made that point.   
      
    LL> Fast forward to 2000, the beginning of the end of politics.   
      
    I think the Nixon pardon was. It was the start on the downhill   
    slope.   
      
    LL> Republicans had impeached, but not removed from office)   
    LL> President Clinton, who was already barred by the   
    LL> Constitution from being able to run for a third consecutive   
    LL> term.  If Bill Clinton would have had any brains, he would   
    LL> have resigned from office.   
      
    He should have finished at least 2 yrs of his second term, but I   
    don't think resigning would have done that much good, and it   
    would have encouraged the right to do that over and over.   
      
    LL> President Gore would easily   
    LL> have defeated the Republican upstart, George W. Bush, and   
    LL> there would have been no 9-11.   
      
    The first part is questionable, but surely possible, the second   
    could very well have been true.   
      
    LL> We all know what happened next.  Al Gore won the presidency,   
    LL> but was never allowed to hold his properly elected office.   
      
    Yep. Which could possibly be the fatal blow to this country.   
      
    LL> Joe Biden has been involved in 67 political races.   
    LL> As far as I know, Joe Biden remains undefeated, and   
    LL> will be 73 years young in 2016 ...   
      
    He also suffers from foot in mouth disease. Sad.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... "I'll just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow..."   
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