2008 - A Tragic Legacy How a Good Vs Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (Paperback) → Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780307354280 ISBN-10: 0307354288 Genres: History, Nonfiction 1 |
Revealingly, American law prevents the recognition of our relationship as a ground for him to live in the United States, while Brazilian law recognizes same-sex relationships for visa and immigration purposes. As a result, for the past year [2006], I have spent substantial time in Brazil while also having a residence in New York. Spending substantial time in another country does not make one an 'expatriate.' And even those American citizens who do give up American residence and live abroad retain full rights of citizenship, including voting rights. But I have not done so.
Over the past five years, a creeping extremism has taken hold of our federal government, and it is threatening to radically alter our system of government and who we are as a nation. This extremism is neither conservative nor liberal in nature, but is instead driven by theories of unlimited presidential power that are wholly alien, and antithetical, to the core political values that have governed this country since its founding"; for, "the fact that this seizure of ever-expanding presidential power is largely justified through endless, rank fear-mongering...fear of terrorists, specifically...means that not only our system of government is radically changing, but so, too, are our national character, our national identity, and what it means to be American."
It has long been clear that there is nothing remotely "conservative" about this Administration, at least in the sense that conservative ideology has stood for a restrained Federal Government which was to be distrusted. There has been a long line of decidedly un-conservative actions by this Administration -- from exploding discretionary domestic spending to record deficits to an emergency convening of the Federal Government to intervene in one woman’s end-of-life decisions to attempts to federalize, even constitutionalize, marriage laws — all of which could not be any more alien to what has been meant by "conservatism" for the past 40 years.
2008 - A Tragic Legacy How a Good Vs Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (Paperback) → Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780307354280 ISBN-10: 0307354288 Genres: History, Nonfiction
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