To the Editor:
As one who has always strived to be a gentleman, I am saddened but not surprised by “Foul-Mouthed and Proud of It on the ’16 Trail” (front page, Nov. 28), which notes the tendency of this year’s presidential candidates to use vulgar language that might have knocked them out of the public arena in years past.
I have been expecting for some time that the ill-tempered, always-enraged Donald Trump will have a vulgar meltdown when someone has the audacity to challenge him in a debate.
I wonder if such a collapse would be costly at the polls. Perhaps not, given the tolerance his Republican supporters have demonstrated for a man who states one untruth after another as unimpeachable fact, and who insults entire classes of people, including women, those with physical challenges, veterans and former prisoners of war, like John McCain. I suppose that having no filter, tact, restraint or diplomacy is in vogue.
OREN SPIEGLER
Upper St. Clair, Pa.
Note from KBJ: Have you been paying attention, Oren Spiegler? Barack Obama is the most vulgar, divisive, thuggish, and intellectually dishonest president we've ever had. He is constitutionally incapable of presenting his opponents' arguments fairly. Those of us who teach critical thinking find him committing the straw-person fallacy on a daily basis. But what should we expect from a community organizer?
