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

[Benton]

(09-10-2018, 04:05 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Meh, seemed like you would have addressed the point of Social media in your retort instead who was the sitting POTUS if that was the impetus of your point.

But maybe that's just my bias

If you need a detailed explanation...


I'd say protocol for sitting and previous presidents went out the window with this one considering the regurgitation and lengthy history modern era candidates have thanks to social media. Used to, if an elected official made a comment about another elected officials it largely just stayed between the two of them. Or maybe just among colleagues (POTUSs, members of Congress, etc.). Now everything is permanently out there to be brought up, dissected, brought up again and rehashed. You can't just call some guy an idiot and buy him a drink next week because the fact that you called him an idiot is always going to be out there. People making outrageous, inflammatory claims can't just ignite something and only burn down the parts they were hoping for. In Trump's case, he's said a lot of inflammatory comments about Obama; Obama has responded to some of those. It's already out there, and that's probably going to be an ongoing issue as long as we keep running ugly campaigns.


... but at the time it just seemed easier to say  "I'd say protocol for sitting and previous presidents went out the window with this one" since the parameters of their feud seemed known.