In Search of a New Playbook II

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08sun1.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=In%20Search%20of%20a%20New%20Playbook&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Subject: re: In Search of a New Playbook
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    If November's election were only about employment and the economy, the Democrats would be in peril. It is not that president Obama's plan isn't sound. Rather, senate republicans have the power to kill, delay or eviscerate the legislation and expenditures needed to fix our economy. Alas, president Obama inherited much more than a wounded economy.  He has it in his power to restore the Rule of Law that was trampled under the last administration. Prosecute wiretaps that violated the FISA statute. Prosecute torturers or extradite them. Repudiate extrajudicial killings. Drop the "State Secret" ploy that keeps us from knowing the extent of crimes committed in our name.

     President Obama deserves praise for spearheading the legislative achievements of the last eighteen months, but those are legislative achievements. As chief Executive, he has work to do to show us that we no longer walk on Dick Cheney's "dark side".

Barry Levine