Thoughts here today on POLITICO about the ongoing MidEast flareup with its supposed roots in an amateur YouTube video, and a Cairo embassy tweet that Mitt Romney treated as a presidential pronouncement.
Archive for September, 2012
Shut down the GOP?
Posted in Campaign Trail, Conservatism, tagged Buckley, Conservatives, Mitt Romney, POLITICO, Republicans, Richard Nixon, tea party on September 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
All kinds of folks from the ideological Right are calling for a break with the newly and awkardly reconstituted Romney GOP. Is it time, as Laura Ingraham said, to just start over? My thoughts here on POLITICO this weekend.
Joltin’ Joe at the DNC
Posted in Political Rhetoric, tagged Joe Biden, POLITICO, rhetoric on September 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My thoughts here at POLITICO, on VP Biden’s speech at the convention last week…
Carolina’s Jim Hunt frames the education message
Posted in Campaign Trail, Political Rhetoric, tagged Barack Obama, Jim Hunt, Mitt Romney, North Carolina, rhetoric on September 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Along with the other great speeches tonight from Bill Clinton and others, North Carolina’s own Jim Hunt put the progressive message out in its best form. There’s a reason he served 4 terms as our state’s Governor, and strengthened the University system where I teach.
Dog Whistle Politics
Posted in Campaign Trail, Conservatism, Political Rhetoric, tagged Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Civil Rights, Conservatives, Paul Ryan, Racism, Republicans, rhetoric on September 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My comments today in POLITICO on the ongoing use of “dog whistle” politics by conservatives. Racially charged code words and references are continuing to flow from the GOP message machine; the question I raise is whether younger generations, who may not have the context of older voters, will even hear the dog whistles, and be able to decode the rhetoric. And whether this is a good, or a bad thing.
