Steve R
01-15-2013, 02:59 PM
These bullet points are abstracted from an article entitled "Ike's Dream, Obama's Reality: 8 Things I Miss About the Cold War" by Jon Wiener, a history professor at UC Irvine and published on January 15 at TomDispatch.com. They summarize some of the main differences between the era of Eisenhower (my presidential hero)/Kennedy/Johnson and that of Obama (worst president in my lifetime).
1. The president didn’t claim the right to kill American citizens without “the due process of law.”
2. We didn’t have a secret “terrorism-industrial complex.”
3. Organized labor was accepted as part of the social landscape.
4. The government had to get a warrant before it could tap your phone.
5. The infrastructure was being expanded and strengthened.
6. College was cheap.
7. We had a president who called for a “war on poverty.”
8. We had a president who warned against “the excessive power of the military-industrial complex.”
1. The president didn’t claim the right to kill American citizens without “the due process of law.”
2. We didn’t have a secret “terrorism-industrial complex.”
3. Organized labor was accepted as part of the social landscape.
4. The government had to get a warrant before it could tap your phone.
5. The infrastructure was being expanded and strengthened.
6. College was cheap.
7. We had a president who called for a “war on poverty.”
8. We had a president who warned against “the excessive power of the military-industrial complex.”