May 03, 2012

Quote of the Day

Paul Waldman on Obama "politicizing" the Bin Laden killing:

Imagine that you called a carpenter to come repair your deck, and after looking at the rotted timbers and split rails, he said, “Well, I can fix this deck. But the one thing I’m not going to do is come over here and engage in a bunch of carpentry. That would be wrong.”

You’d probably suspect that the carpenter was insane. Yet politicians and their campaign advisers–people for whom politics is a profession no less than carpentry is the carpenter’s profession–are constantly complaining that their opponents are engaged in “politics,” or are committing the horrible sin of “politicizing” something that shouldn’t be political.

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 3, 2012 02:19 PM
Comments
Post a comment









Remember personal info?