Greenspan: Nixon "Hated Everybody" And Carter "Had No Use For Me"

Newsweek:

Nixon: "A member of the Clinton administration once was accusing Nixon of anti-Semitism, and I said, 'You don't understand. He wasn't exclusively anti-Semitic. He was anti-Semitic, anti-Italian, anti-Greek, anti-Slovak ... He hated everybody.'"

Ford: "Jerry Ford was as close to normal as you get in a president, but he never was elected. There's a constitutional amendment that I've been pushing for years without success. It says, 'Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office.' I'm only half joking."

Read the whole story: Newsweek

Comments

[dora rice]

08:54 AM on 09/17/2007

he didn't hate Billy Graham, he didn't hate the Chinese and he respected the Europeans. He was super intelligent , but a tricky Dick. He sensed that the Washington insiders didn't like him and wanted to stay one step ahead of them. He certainly wasn't fun at a party. His wife was a drunkard.That didn't help.

[init]

09:15 PM on 09/16/2007

Late yes. But better than never. The dems should have been on this years ago. Let the man talk all day and night if he wants. I'm listening. Don't forget that some people listen to NO ONE.

[VictorLudorum]

03:31 PM on 09/16/2007

It is true that in democratic tradition you are invited to run and you are even required to say 'i dont think im capable enough for that respect' once and accept when requested... Nixon had a big card in his hand ,that kind can think he is head of a REVOLUTION and needs no manners to patroinise the losers!
The whole process of 73 suez brokering and 73 constitution etc had begun! Its true!

[Rescisco]

12:38 PM on 09/16/2007

Alan Greenspan has written in his new book that the invasion of Iraq was about oil. He says “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” I have no doubt about that, though there were a number of other variables (including ideological crusading). Still Al, why wait until now to confirm this suspicion held by many? The truth (whatever it is) should not be saved for a memoir. That is absolutely disgusting, if not worse.

[Doofus]

01:02 PM on 09/16/2007

Actually, this was always so f*cking obvious
that even the esteemed Greenspan would have
assumed that everyone (with a brain) realized it.

[dora rice]

12:30 PM on 09/16/2007

protecting the paranoid Israelis was PNAC's number one task, that the second biggest oil reserves are in Iraq helped to win guys like Bush over , especially since, this in my opinion moron, considers himself an oilman.

[Doofus]

08:18 AM on 09/16/2007

Hmmm.

If Greenspan says it's about oil
that must mean it's NOT about oil...

It must be about *TEXAS*!

(Notice that 'Texas' is just
a re-arrangement of 'Taxes'?
Kinda makes you wonder, no?)

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

12:38 AM on 09/16/2007

Anyone who tells the truth about the bush bastard gets a vote of confidence from me.

Does anyone really doubt the iraq war was about ANYTHING other than oil? Wnen the cheney asshole's minutes of his energy conference FINALLY come out, and they will, they will show that ivading Iraq to gain control of their oil was the guiding principle of this entire PNAC philosophy.

Just google PNAC if you doubt me.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

10:07 PM on 09/15/2007

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece
September 16, 2007
Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil

as a Fed insider, Alan Greenspan is UNTOUCHABLE. the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI, NOBODY can touch him.

therefore, if he says something like "Iraq war really for oil," you should understand that the Iraq war was most certainly *not* for oil.

are you with me?

[Moosbrugger]

12:47 AM on 09/16/2007

I don't follow.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

09:26 AM on 09/16/2007

or it could be that he's an inveterate economist, who can only see the economic system, whereas there are a multitude of social systems always in play -- the political system, the art system, the love system, etc.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

09:39 AM on 09/16/2007

-or-

it could it be that he's just an old retired curmudgeon who just blabs whatever comes to his head.

[avergejoe]

01:50 PM on 09/16/2007

dry...

drugs can be harmful to your mind.

[Plowboy]

07:43 PM on 09/15/2007

Well, now he isn't giving out his usual doubletalk gobbledegook. But he still doesn't say anything worth hearing.

[AceInTheHole]

07:27 PM on 09/15/2007

This old skallywag want's to convince us that he has found religion after helping to screw the world up for over fifty years with his conivery and complacency against evil.

These people must think that we are ceterfiable idiots or the the Lord stop making brains when he made theirs.

It's insanely rediculous how these skallywags look down on the people that should be looking up to and they will in the end, for that is a Devine promise.

The Lord have mercy on their souls.

TELL THE TRUTH AND YOU SHAME THE DEVIL,
TELL A LIE AND YOU KISS HIS BUTT.