We must stop buying into the rhetorical hogwash designed to divide us, run our morale into the ground or worse, rush us into accepting proposals that put a band-aid on the issue.
That rhetorical ploy, which has divided members of the Federalist Society, links those who have opposed the Bush administration on national security issues to al-Qaida 9. Cheney's attack video is a silly slur that represents a new low in our polarized national politics.
They met before appearing at a session of the black caucus of the Democratic National Committee and divided up their rhetorical responsibilities.
"It's an iron rule that whenever a court is divided, that gives at least rhetorical strength to opponents of the decision in saying it's not legitimate," says Clyde Spillenger, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
If we consider his basic rhetorical conceit in 2004, that there was a divide in Australia between the rationalists and the nationalists, the Shorten of 2016 likes to empathise with the nationalists.
The results of a recent Zogby poll establish that the divide is more existential than merely rhetorical, and is more demographic than simply partisan.
But what impressed me most was not Mr. Obama's rhetorical elegance or his nuanced view of both America's undeniable racial divide and equally undeniable racial progress.
Despite its rhetorical demands, India would surely be happy to accept the existing "line of control" dividing Indian-held Kashmir from the Pakistani-held bit as a border if that meant Pakistan's abandonment of its claims there.
