Reply #1: From a sales perspective, that makes sense. [View All]

[MADem]

"Nostalgia" sells better than crapping on someone on the way out the door. They'll save the crapping for later, is my guess. The "theme" is change, hope, beliee, and you don't want people spitting and shaking their fists on the one hand, and trying to be "hopeful" on the other. There's too wide a range of emotion, there. It'll piss people off reading the news.

Even when Nixon resigned, they shit on him until he cried UNCLE, and then, they handled him more sweetly. Then they crapped on FORD about his pardon, but eventually, that sort of faded into a dull, grudging resentment. Then, much later, they started flinging crap again at both Nixon and Ford, which brought us Carter. And then, later still, Nixon was "rehabilitated" as a foreign policy sage.

And then, even later still, when these "N word" and "GD Jeeeeewwwwwww" tapes started coming out, co-starring Billy "Presidential Pastor" Graham, he was back in the dog house again. Now, they've made a completely unnecessary movie about Frost and Nixon (go to the ORIGINAL TAPES, people--those interviews were BRILLIANT and FASCINATING) so Nixon is back on the upswing again...slightly. If we get close to "serious" war, they'll pull out Nixon's "What about Nukes" in Vietnam, tape again, where he urges Kissenger "For Chrissake, Henry, I just want you to THINK BIG!!!" That'll put him on the shit list again!

So too, will it be with Bush. We're not done with him. He'll be in and out and in and out for many years to come. As time passes, more people will talk.

And with all of the covert actions The Wee Cowboy has no doubt started around the globe, it could well be that Obama may be handed a Bay of Pigs in the early days of his Presidency (remember Biden's "tested" remark? He wasn't talking out his ass...he was just shooting off his intel mouth, I suspect). We'll see. Keep your larders stocked, kids!