Baghdadi's death: More details emerge from US raid

[Dill]

(10-29-2019, 12:01 PM)GMDino Wrote: [/url]BOLLING: And if you point to Bin Laden, that wasn't Obama's administration that got Bin Laden.


WILLIAMS: It wasn't?

BOLLING: That was the Bush administration that set up the kill shot, and Obama took the kill shot.[url=https://www.salon.com/2011/05/02/fox_reaction/]

A helpful comparison that offers a little perspective on current evaluations of presidential action.

The line between policy analysis/evaluation and personality analysis/evaluation has never been hard and fast, but the old rule for serious persons used to be leave off the latter and focus on the former, because the latter so often consisted of unsupported (and unsupportable) general claims like the above quotation from Bolling. 

Trump and his minions seem to have so blurred that line now that it is legitimately hard to separate the two.

One consequence of that blurring is that substantive, evidence-based critique of Trump decisions/actions can be cast as simply another form of name-calling and partisan complaining.