εἰ μὴ ἄρα δεινὸν καλοῦσιν οὗτοι λέγειν τὸν τἀληθῆ λέγοντα

[sovay]

Thank you, Al Gore and Barack Obama, for demonstrating that rhetoric in the modern political arena is not dead.

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I'm not in love with all the current positions of the Democratic Party, either. (My political identity on Facebook is listed as "Jacobite," and I'm probably not quite as much joking in that as I think I am.)

but it goes some way toward mitigating the escalating feeling that the total utility of language in modern politics had shrunk to the lowest common soundbite.

Exactly. I'm hoping that this is a harbinger of things to come, although I amn't over-optomistic. Then again, it's not my nature to be very much so.