Former President Clinton’s fellow Arkansan and syndicated opinion writer Paul Greenberg either misunderstands or misrepresents Clinton’s words of warning about the current lack of civility in political discourse.
Greenberg misses the obvious point that Clinton has not warned us against peaceful protest (that’s “civil,” right?), but against the incitement to violence that we currently see among the various militia types, 2nd Amendment monomaniacs and secessionists. The same sort of wing nuts Clinton himself had to deal with in the 1990s.
Neither can Greenberg credibly equate the hate and vitriol that President Obama has experienced, from the day he took office, with the protests against President Bush. Anti-Bush protests really only began after Bush and Cheney lied us into a war on Iraq, a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, thereby wasting thousands of American lives, 100,000+ Iraqi lives, and perhaps $3 trillion before all is finally, and sadly, said and done.
About Me
- ~Bill
- U. of I. Illini fan, reformed rugger, dad, Vietnam vet and unrepentant humanist, I teach high school social studies by day and watch, listen and read about current events by night. My "especiallity" is the Cold War, since I lived it.
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