There is no doubting that Obama is getting a bad press and surveys show him as being seen as the least popular president in the first year of office. The "yes we can" man is seen as wanting on so many fronts that his credibility has been severely spiked.
Writing in Village Voices, Nat Hentoff, points out:
"Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the "war on terror" over to Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld—ardent believers that the Constitution presents grave obstacles in a time of global jihad.
But now, Bush's successor—who actually taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago—is continuing much of the Bush-Cheney parallel government and, in some cases, is going much further in disregarding our laws and the international treaties we've signed."
Read on, here, to see a fairly compelling case made out to support what Hentoff asserts.
Writing in Village Voices, Nat Hentoff, points out:
"Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the "war on terror" over to Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld—ardent believers that the Constitution presents grave obstacles in a time of global jihad.
But now, Bush's successor—who actually taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago—is continuing much of the Bush-Cheney parallel government and, in some cases, is going much further in disregarding our laws and the international treaties we've signed."
Read on, here, to see a fairly compelling case made out to support what Hentoff asserts.
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