By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. Posted February 26, 2009.
America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
I like to think that some of the things I write cause discomfort in those readers who deserve to feel it. Ideally, they should squirm, they should flinch, they might even experience fleeting gastrointestinal symptoms. But I have always drawn the line at torture. It may be unpleasant to read some of my writings, especially if they have been assigned by a professor, but it should not result in uncontrollable screaming, genital mutilation or significant blood loss.
With such stringent journalistic ethics in place, I was shocked to read in the February 14 Daily Mail Online.
Read on...
I hate to say it, again, but Obama isn't walking away from many Bush policies. Beginning to wonder if he will. Tom
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