Re: Politics OT-Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:56:09 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 8/23/24 06:40, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <va83rb$i1pu$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/22/2024 1:58 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

On 8/21/2024 11:27 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <va68qr$6u1l$1@dont-email.me>,

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Bush I was a private citizen during Clinton's presidency,
and could not legally engage in diplomacy.

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I believe you may have confused Bill Clinton (POTUS 1993 - 2000)
Jimmy Carter (POTUS 1977 to 1980).

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Yup. Major brain fart.
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But it doesn't change the point. How do you get Bush I (who
did a lot of diplomatic work when the GOP were in power),
negotiating with Iran over the hostage deal, when he was
a private citizen? What quid pro quo could he offer to the
Iranians?

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He (GHWB) had been the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
during the previous (Ford) republican administration.
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...which means that he certainly aware of the Logan Act, which
forbids private citizens from negotiating like that. Prior to
Reagan's inauguration, Bush was a private citizen.
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But he was head of the CIA, so used to treating laws as an optional
extra.
 

That is the case indeed. The Land-n-Order Republican President
though broke laws himself dealing with Nicaragua. He really should have
been impeached but of course Presidential Immunity saved him for
dementia. He was just a front for the rich and largely unknow people
who pay little tax but made large contributions to the Congress persons
of their choice who support the anti-tax movement.

My take has been that he was basically not functioning from about 1983
onwards. After that, the country was run by Nancy -- or, rather, her
astrologer.

And he is sainted by the GOP since he took down the Soviet  Union by
the simple expedienent of outspending the USSR. Alos they
seem to think he followed their line on taxation of the most highly
remunerated.

Outspending the USSR worked. Can't argue with success.

Well, provided the means are not immoral or illegal, anyway.

Len Deighton did a nine-novel series, starting with /Berlin Game/,
which turns out to be about this sort of thing.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"