Obama The “Self-Entangling Giant”?
Is the EXECUTIVE BRANCH out of control?
HP….No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a “self-entangling giant” who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills in the Oct. 8 New York Review of Books.
Wills, a Northwestern University historian emeritus, argues in “Entangled Giant” that Bush left office unpopular and disgraced, with Obama set on ending illegal acts like torture and indefinite detentions, denial and legal representation to detainees, and nullification of laws by signing statements, among others. But he then contends that, “The momentum of accumulating powers in the executive is not easily reversed, checked or even slowed.”….
