History DOES repeat itself

Readers of this blog will be aware that I have noted the similarities between Bush's abuse of executive power, and those of Tricky Dick Nixon.

This morning I was listening to an old Chicago song called Dialogue Part 1. The song is basically a discussion between a politically active college student and an average student who wasn't yet active. The lyrics go like this: "Don't it make you angry, where war is dragging on? Well I hope the president knows what he's into, I don't know." Another verse ends with "Well I always thought that everything was fine...."

This song was written in 1972. We were destined to live with Nixon another two years until he resigned in August of 1974, and the Vietnam War didn't end until April 1975.

It seems to me that we are at the point of awakening to the King George absues, like we were in 1972 with Nixon. Witness that the current crop of protest music is coming around: Neil Young's Living With War...etc. Iraq=Vietnam, Domestic spying=Watergate, Valerie Plame outing=Ellsburg burglary, etc.

This goes to prove my favorite quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana.