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In reply to the discussion: The used car salesman strikes again [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Or follow the archaic (only the NYT uses it anymore,) Mr. President.
I will quote Former President Teddy Roosevelt to you too.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
He wrote that during a very ugly period of US history. A few folks even went to jail for being loud mouths and speaking against the President. Oh Mr. Pitt's words are really mild here. I don't know if they teach that in school anymore. But one of my instructors in graduate school, he was a specialist in the period in question, wondered aloud if the only reason Teddy remained out of jail was he was a former President who thought WW I was a really bad idea, for the US to intervene that is.
We are now living through almost sixteen years of a toxic environment that while not quite that bad, it's bad enough. The early years I used that with conservatives, now with liberals (truly conservadems). Some things never change. And one of the things that never should change is that Presidents are not kings and should be critiqued, especially when they step in it.