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Old Jun 30, 2006, 07:44 am   #29 (permalink) (top)
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Nixon gave up the election rather easily
Nixon didn't make a fuss.
And JFK proceeded to bed dozens (hundreds?) of women right there in the White House.

These two seemingly unrelated facts aren't. The presidency (political office in general) had a halo over it in those days. Decent people simply didn't talk in public about elections being stolen. If Nixon had, he would have looked like a Bad Loser. Instead, he doubtless recited the Kennedy motto to himself: Don't get mad, get even.

As you know, it's still unseemly to suggest that elections in the US are stolen. Complaints about Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 were treated by the media like a loud fart in a polite salon, i.e. ignored.


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