Worthwhile Obama Initiative

Written by David Frum on Sunday April 5, 2009

I was on George Stephanopoulos' show this morning for a lively roundtable with George Will, Martha Raddatz, Richard Haass and Arianna Huffington. One thing became clear to me as we discussed the likelihood of bank nationalization - an auto bankruptcy -and the impending nuclearization of North Korea and Iran: It's clear that the Obama administration needs more and better euphemisms for what it is doing. Maybe a National Euphemism Initiative? Maybe a cabinet department? Or maybe a special presidential euphemism representative within every department? It's amazing what can be done, so long as we find a way to avoid calling that thing by too candid a name…

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