> I think that if you looked at the scope of executive orders over time it would be instructive Indeed, but instructive in an opposite direction IMO. The sum

> I think that if you looked at the scope of executive orders over time it would be instructive Indeed, but instructive in an opposite direction IMO. The sum of Obama's executive orders pale in comparison to the other Roosevelt's singular Executive Order 9066, for example. And that was hardly the only controversial FDR order. Vietnam was really the first time that a war-time president didn't suspend the civil liberties of a crap-load of Americans.