Children in public schools couldn't tell you who Andrew Jackson was, let alone that he owned slaves. Ten bucks says they couldn't tell you whose picture is on a twenty. This silly left-wing rhetoric is not troublesome. False or misleading rhetoric is dangerous only when unleashed upon the ill-informed. Truth in rhetoric is its passion, its efficacy.
False rhetoric falls easily.
This past week's liberal talking points emphasize the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow 5-4 vote for entering the Gore litigation bonanza and vote trolling spree. Even the renegade Florida Supreme Court held the ballot was legal and the problem was inept voters, whatever their faith. Let rhetoric ring. In fact, give me rhetoric or give me death. JWR contributor Marianne M. Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies at Arizona State University.