Campaign rhetoric?
Charles Krauthamner writes that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are doing more than anyone else to revise the negative image of the George W. Bush presidency.
It's sad that the techniques of branding one's political "enemy" with whatever exaggerations or outright lies that will stick has become part of the game. However, the problem is that partisans come to believe the cheap criticism and the calumny.
It's good to know that Obama didn't believe it. And he is showing the partisans on the Right that he is not what they deeply feared either.
Maybe he's just Tony Blair, as James Delingpole suggests in his piece "I have seen your future and it doesn't work" in the Spectator, or, closer to home, another Pierre Trudeau.
Frankly, that's bad enough.
I could not watch the orgy of glee all over various newscasts last night.
Thank God for Salt and Light TV, because I had a little beacon of real hope to tune into.
The beauty of democratic rotations of power is that when the opposition takes office, cheap criticism and calumny will no longer do.
It's sad that the techniques of branding one's political "enemy" with whatever exaggerations or outright lies that will stick has become part of the game. However, the problem is that partisans come to believe the cheap criticism and the calumny.
It's good to know that Obama didn't believe it. And he is showing the partisans on the Right that he is not what they deeply feared either.
Maybe he's just Tony Blair, as James Delingpole suggests in his piece "I have seen your future and it doesn't work" in the Spectator, or, closer to home, another Pierre Trudeau.
Frankly, that's bad enough.
I could not watch the orgy of glee all over various newscasts last night.
Thank God for Salt and Light TV, because I had a little beacon of real hope to tune into.
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