Please, No More Teachable Moments
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The president of the United States has it hard enough without needlessly wading into, and fanning, local controversies. The economy is battered by sluggish growth, high unemployment, record annual deficits and near unsustainable national debt. Over 50 percent of the people now disapprove of Barack Obama's handling of these problems.So why weigh in on hot-button issues that can only polarize people without solving anything? Receive news alertsLast summer, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a scholar of African-American literature and history, got into a silly dispute with a local...
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