Joel Swagman (Reviews / TESOL)

I use this blog for two different projects: my reviews and my materials for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

From Salon.com
This is what it’s come to for Barack Obama: Reality has sunk in for many Americans, who at last understand that the guy we elected on the naive expectation that he would undo the excesses of the Bush-Cheney national security state has instead made them much worse. It will be difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to escape this legacy now. He is the drone president, the assassination president, the domestic-surveillance president, whose entire administration has a professionalized passion for secrecy that makes the low-rent paranoids of the Nixon White House look like Keystone Kops.

Speaking as someone who had great hopes for Obama in 2008, this is difficult to swallow, but this probably will be the legacy of the Obama presidency now.
Joel Swagman at 9:02 AM
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