So... who wrote the NYT op-ed?

[GMDino]

(09-10-2018, 02:12 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: It is still a continued erosion of norms. Norms bolster the written policies, procedures, and laws that we have. Without upholding the norms, the rest of it starts to crumble. I get that Obama doing this seems trivial to a lot of people, but when you look at it in the bigger picture, in the view that these norms have been chipped away at for decades, what seems minor is a part of a larger issue. The erosion of norms got us to this point, and continuing the same trajectory means we aren't going to see a course correction.

Sounds a little too much like "just be quiet and let them hang themselves" to me.  Sometimes things need to change.  Sometimes other changes occur to fight those changes.   Trying to bring civility back to politics seems, again to me, a worthwhile cause to move away from a norm.

Other than Bill Clinton I can't think of another ex-POTUS that would have done what Obama did in my lifetime.