TV's Andy Levy hosts and welcomes guests Remi Spencer, Sam Morril and Kmele Foster.
The president's adolescent arguments
Recently, President Obama - a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance; a Pericles sent to ameliorate our rhetorical impoverishment - spoke at the University of Michigan. He came to that very friendly venue (in 2012, he won 67 percent of the vote in Ann Arbor's county) after visiting a local sandwich shop, where a muse must have whispered in the presidential ear.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a "meanwich" and a "stinkburger."
Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grownups would resort to japes that fourth-graders wouldn't consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.Also read: Obama's Minimum Wage Fallacy
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