Jake Bernstein wrote:
> Cheney and Rumsfeld have been a tandem team for five decades, starting > with President Richard Nixon.
On 10/19/06, Doug Henwood wrote:
Has it been that long? Gosh, time flies as one speeds towards the near-elderly demographic.<
yes, this guy has a hard time distinguishing 3 from 5.
Isn't the novelty of all this somewhat exaggerated? It was a crime to say unkind things about the U.S. government during WW I; scads of immigrants were deported. There were loyalty oaths for employment in the 1950s. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. And I haven't even mentioned semi-official punishments like lynchings.<
I don't know this guy, but my guess it that he'd accept the idea that Cheney is just one representative of a reactionary current. It doesn't seem like he blames Cheney for everything bad. Rather, he's trying to understand Cheney's role in the current authoritarian wave. -- Jim Devine / "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
