There’s more evidence of the decline of our partisan “discussion” of “issues.” Senator Chuck Grassley provides it to us.
If you used Grassley’s way of “discussing” issues where he differs with Barack Obama and envisioned the Lincoln Douglas debates you can see Lincoln and Douglas now: “You’re stupid!” “You’re a poopy head.”
Wait! That sounds like kindergarten talk.
Same difference..
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.