For the last 6 years
writers to this paper decry the Obama administration. They very
seldom have any facts to backup their assertions. They use innuendo,
and rumors from unreliable sources. They call his administration
Socialist or Communist. They question his citizenship, and his
religion. They call him a dictator. They have every right to espouse
their conspiracy theories. The thing is, this has been an ongoing
tactic of the conservatives. President Kennedy's administration was
denounced on the house floor by a Congressman from Texas as assuming
“almost unlimited power” and using “dictatorial tactics” to
those used in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Kennedy was accused
of being soft on communism, deferring to the Vatican because he was
Catholic, being a bigamist, his war record was questioned. A popular
radio show of the time said Kennedy by Executive Orders which bypass
Congress has already created a body of laws to transform our Republic
into a dictatorship. By-the-way the man who questioned the
separation of church and state because Kennedy was Catholic became
president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a founder of the
“Religious Right”, but when Reagan became president he thought
separation of church and state was a figment of someone's
imagination. Even the opposition to the Affordable Care Act uses the
same arguments they used in their opposition to the enactment of
Medicare. They claimed as they do now death panels would be created,
and liberty lost. Does all of this sound familiar? Their arguments
are as phony now as they were 50 years ago.
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