{"id":2913,"date":"2002-09-25T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2002-09-25T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2002-09-25T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2002-09-25T14:08:43","slug":"%c2%94ma-ma-where%c2%92s-my-pa%c2%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"\u0094MA, MA, WHERE\u0092S MY PA?\u0094"},"content":{"rendered":"

(campaign dig on Grover Cleveland<\/a>, alleging that he had an illegitimate son)<\/i>
\nHardball campaigning isn\u0092t a new feature in American politics (or in politics in general\u0085), and my comments below on the tone<\/a> of debate in the Blogosphere isn\u0092t meant to compare it with the tone of electoral politics (although I also think that the tone there is depressing); it\u0092s meant to talk about the tone of the politics of governance, which in my mind ought to be totally different than electoral politics (I know, I know, the campaign never ends, and in today\u0092s politics every utterance is aimed directly at the heart of the next election\u0085to me, that expresses the problem rather neatly).
\nBlogs\u0085the prominent blogs\u0085are meant to shape discourse, to launch memes, and to try and steer opinion ever so slightly. When I criticized Sullywatch<\/a> and Hesiod<\/a>, it wasn\u0092t because my thin skin was unable to take the sharp words they launched; I\u0092ve read worse, hell, I\u0092ve said worse; they\u0092ve never criticized me, and to be honest, I\u0092m indifferent as to whether they do. It is because I\u0092m a liberal too, and this kind of cheap rhetoric is great at whipping up your existing base, and not so terrific at building it. They\u0092re tearing down what I want to see built.
\nAnd as a part of my thoughts on combat, I\u0092m getting to the point of \u0091honorableness\u0092 in combat, which goes to the fact that combat may end, and that you may have to negotiate with your opponent. And if you have shown trustworthiness, humanity, and honor in the small ways that you can during battle, then there is a door open to greater displays of trustworthiness, humanity, and honorable dealings during peacetime.
\nThe Israelis know this, the Palestinians don\u0092t. And, sadly, neither do the rabid bloggers of the left and right. My criticism applies equally well to both sides; it just happens, as a partisan, that I feel responsible for only one. And that matters, because you have to remember the reply to the slur in the title. It was \u0093Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.\u0094<\/I>
\n[Update:<\/b> Eugene Volokh<\/a> weighs in on name-calling<\/b> in lieu of argument.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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