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Sep 9 2007
10:47 am
Valium Fred, the panacea of the people
By: R. Neal

Andrew Sullivan on Fred Thompson:

And so Thompson emerges in the widening sectarian and political gap. Buoyed by celebrity, unencumbered by actual policies, platitudinous on Iraq, but oozing calm, he is the antianxiety medication for a troubled America. I’m just not sure a sedative is what the country really needs right now. A wake-up call would be more appropriate.

Judging from the rest of the column, he's not impressed.

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redmondkr's picture

Here is another good feature

Submitted by redmondkr on Mon, 2007/09/10 - 4:25pm.

Here is another good feature story on old Freddie.

When Thompson graduated, he worked for Sarah's lawyer uncle before being given his first political appointment as a federal prosecutor by Richard Nixon's attorney general.

Later the Republicans manoeuvred him into an even more powerful position, as an attorney for the committee probing the Watergate scandal. Transcripts of Nixon's secret White House tapes disclose his real function was to leak the committee's findings to the disgraced President, but the public hailed him as a reformer.

His image as a champion of the people made him much in a demand as a lawyer.

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