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In the last Democratic debate, Obama -- he who would change the nature of our politics -- complained about a question on whether English should become the official language of the United States: "This is the kind of question that is designed precisely to divide us." Quite right. That's the game. And after the GOP debate, former senator Jim Talent, now an unpaid adviser to Romney, pointed out that it took an ordinary citizen in the audience to ask the first question about health care.
The media prefer the red meat. Please toss us huge slabs.
But candidates should beware: Red meat during primary season can get rancid during the general election. What sounds good today may turn out later to have been a rotten thing to say.
Joel Achenbach is a staff writer
for the Washington Post and blogs
at washingtonpost.com/
achenblog.
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