During Watergate the nation was spared the
sad, and potentially dangerous, specter of a sitting president going
stark raving mad in office. Adults in Nixon's own party conducted an
intervention, leading their emotionally - and increasingly mentally -
crippled leader safely off the world stage. It was an act of both
statrtallyesmanship and patriotism by that handful of sage-like
Republicans. It was also an act of kindness and compassion for a mo
wounded leader -- albeit the wounds were self-inflected.
So, is the president cracked or cracking? Or
is what I witnessed this week just more of the uninformed, spoiled,
arrogant little putz that 71% of us have come to dislike. Only time
will tell -- but time is short.
The next few months will be very hard on
him. Maybe too hard. We may see the weight of it all too much for
a guy accustomed to getting his own way and never having to
acknowledge, much less clean up, his own messes. [Call
Me Crazy, But Think I've Been Here Before]
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