Two prominent Democrats lament the degradation of civil
discourse in graduation addresses:
Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa of Los Angeles [1],
told University of Southern California graduates it was "poisoning our
politics."
Mark Warner, former Virginia governor [2] speaking at Wake
Forest University, criticized the "personal and partisan attacks" and
"complex issues reduced to easy-to-digest sound bites."
"No one — no one — in politics has a monopoly on virtue,
on patriotism,
or most importantly, on the truth," Mr. Warner said.
"And that goes for
everyone, from conservative to liberal."
— NYT column by David Brooks June 11, 2006 - see Slate's attack on Brooks himself here [3].
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