Perverting democracy for politics

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by warch

History indeed. It will be interesting to view the legacy of Bush and his crew. Funny you bring up Clinton! Lying about a blowjob seems like such small potatoes, now.

When I hear discussions of impeachment these days, its usually referenced closer to Nixon's abuses of power and politicization. Nixon's disgrace will always include stories of his direction of crooked activity, lies and unconstitutional power grabbing, overshadowing any other positives of his terms. And again, now they seem rather quaint.

If our medal of freedom honorees are just innocent the "fall guys", their failures just the natural order, is that really worthy of this highest civilian honor or yet another example of politicization, to the point where the thing loses all meaning in the cynicism?

I believe that it (medal of freedom or what ever it is called) lost it's luster years ago. It is the best that the US can do short of knighthood, something we don't have. Pick a president, they all have had significant failings.