Barack Obama is the president that Nixon always wanted to be.

That's what Jonathan Turley thinks. He cites four areas where Obama has exceeded Nixon in creating the imperial presidency: Warrantless surveillance, Unilateral military action, Kill lists and Attacking whistle-blowers.  But, to quote Pogo, the problem is us, for Turley concludes his article with the following:

We appear to have grown weary of the republic and traded it for promises of security from a shining political personality. Somewhere, Nixon must be wondering how it could have been this easy.