…he’s collecting examples of the President’s – and others’ – use of this rhetorical equivalent of “um, you know”… and, I have to say that even for a cliche “The time for talk is over” is a pretty semantic-free statement. Aside from everything else, if there’s a section of the Constitution that says that the POTUS, the punditocracy, or my Aunt Eileen gets to be the Question Gatekeeper, I missed it.
Although maybe you need the special glasses.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.