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And we’ll all live happily ever after…

• Posted: 2008-11-26T14:17:25Z

That background looks familiar - where have I seen it before?
A painting, maybe?

• Posted: 2008-11-26T17:10:18Z

Now I have a Beatles song in my head!
“Come Together right now follow me………………

• Posted: 2008-11-26T18:05:46Z

james: Goya-esque,at least…rva

• Posted: 2008-11-26T19:31:22Z

The background is Goya… or maybe Hieronymus Bosch. But the foreground is totally Oliphant… and the tiniest little “W” he’s ever drawn.

• Posted: 2008-11-27T02:41:16Z

There’s a Chas. Addams vibe to the background as well.

• Posted: 2008-11-27T02:51:29Z

How can he pardon himself for something he has not been formally charged and found guilty of?

• Posted: 2008-11-27T22:27:15Z

He’s “The Decider!” The Preemptive Pardon may come in just as handy as The Signing Statement.

• Posted: 2008-11-28T05:37:03Z

Tolestoy, very good ;oD

• Posted: 2008-11-28T09:23:21Z

If that’s the case then “Tricky Dickey”, should have or could have pardon himself as well as his Cabinet, and even the VEEP Spiro Agnew. Of course, as history goes, he didn’t, why?

• Posted: 2008-11-28T12:30:01Z

jerim01, I give up, why?

• Posted: 2008-11-28T12:55:47Z

Too embarassing.

• Posted: 2008-11-28T15:35:35Z

According to Haldeman, Nixon actually seriously considered pardoning himself. Trouble is, while that would protect him from criminal and civil indictment, it would immediately make him vulnerable to impeachment, due to an obvious abuse of Presidential power. He was still protecting his place in history – with notable success, I’m afraid – and preferred to let Ford pardon him, as he knew he would.

• Posted: 2008-11-29T21:20:07Z

Makes sense.

• Posted: 2008-12-01T00:43:17Z