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When Politicians Weren't Idiots

BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI


Disgusted with the two babbling idiots we have running for president? One who can't put together a coherent sentence, and the other who talks in mindless, incomprehensible slogans?


Sick of politicians who never answer questions and take every opportunity to bash and demonize their political opponents?


Are you tired of fake reporters who are really political operatives who make biased political statements instead of asking questions of politicians? Sick of fake reporters who are always trying “get” public officials?


Do you long for a time when reporters were real, unbiased and respectful? For a time when politicians actually answered questions and didn't constantly demean members of the opposing political party? For a time when presidential candidates, and presidents, were knowledgeable, articulate, and sometimes funny?


Well, if you are, join me on a trip back to the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. I'm posting two YouTube videos of news conferences the presidents held during the most critical times of their presidencies: Nixon in 1970 just after the four Kent State University students were killed by the Ohio National Guard, and the second of Kennedy in November 1962 just after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis.


I think you'll be amazed at how calm, articulate, knowledgeable, and willing to directly answer questions they are, especially Nixon. It's amazing. No babbling, no constantly deriding opponents as threats to democracy, no smug assumptions that those on the other side were idiots and evil, and no talking in cheap, mindless, focus group-generated slogans.


It is so damn refreshing! I'm posting two videos here. The first is Nixon's May 8, 1970, presser. The second will be JFK's November 20, 1962 news conference. I hope you watch them. If you do, you will be amazed and pleased.










Hey, if you like to laugh, and if you went to Catholic school, you might want to get my latest book, Disturbers Row. Click on the image to get it at Amazon.



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