He makes an excellent point regarding the Bush administration's use of executive power during the war on terror:
"He staunchly defended the Bush administration's use of executive power in the fight against terrorism and disagreed with calls to limit presidential authority. "If you think about what Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War, what FDR did during World War II. They went far beyond anything we've done in a global war on terror," the vice president contended."
Yes--I mean, President Roosevelt put people in detention camps in World War II mainly because they were of Japanese ancestry. President Truman, during the cold war, forced hundreds of people to resign from governmental positions because they were communists. People need to keep things in perspective. Too often, Bush administration critics have failed to do that.
