[Peace-discuss] Common Sense
Morton K. Brussel
brussel at uiuc.edu
Mon Feb 12 17:44:39 CST 2007
Yeah, I'd argue about a few things---that Ford was our greatest
President; that must be a joke, unless by greatest is meant the most
inert and vacuous--
but the statement below is really curious, in that it is self
contradictory…
But thanks for the stimulation. The periodical seems looking into,
but does it have this rather enlightened view in most of its
political articles?
Or is it heterogeneous politically?
--mkb
On Feb 12, 2007, at 1:10 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> What was possible for a Kennedy or a Reagan is
> not so easily done by a Bush Jr. -- and therefore the
> administration has
> had to launch direct assaults on the Constitution, notably in the
> Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and Bush's signing
> statements. It has had to make ever wider war with little popular
> support, in anxious expectation that emergencies will produce that
> support: the Bush administration, more than any other since Truman's,
> needs alarums and excursions.
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