09-10-2018, 02:23 PM
(09-10-2018, 02:20 PM)GMDino Wrote: 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.
Of course, the whole norm that the ex-POTUS club doesn't criticize the person sitting in the Oval is a part of that civility. So you're eroding civility to, as you claim, bring civility back.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
