The left and right, Democrats and Republicans, are now weighing in on Syria which in many ways isn’t a partisan issue — but in other ways is becoming moreso with each passing day. Here’s a segment on Don Lemon’s CNN show which gets the viewpoint of one moderate — yours truly. And I’m sure many will disgree. Which they have already in emails and Tweets — which in their tone confirms precisely what I say in this segment about our increasingly tiresome style of 21st century politics:
LINKS TO THREE POSTS CITED IN THIS SEGMENT:
—My recent article in The Week.
–My Moderate Voice post on Peggy Noonan.
—Another post on it becoming all about Obama.
Reposted from Saturday evening
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.