But others have no excuse for their utterances in 2014. A yellow-dog Democrat named Alan Pyke, swept away by the partisan madness called an American midterm election, and who clearly had been watching too much Fox News, sent out this tweet about the networks president: I hope Roger Ailes dies slow, painful, and soon. ... The evil that man has done to the American tapestry is unprecedented for an individual. Adding irony to his comment, it should be noted that this Alan Pyke is an editor for something called the Center for American Progress. If this be progress, what would be regress? And ill-tempered regress at that. Mr. Pyke did apologize later, but only kind of. Chalk up the old-fashioned, full and unqualified apology as another casualty of the midterm follies known as congressional elections. (The usual construction for such apologies that really arent, and that only aggravate the original offense, begins: Im sorry, but.... Whereupon further embarrassment ensues.) Chris Matthews was his usual fair-and-balanced self on MSNBC this past year, as when he looked into his always cloudy crystal ball and foresaw the outcome of elections a full nine months in advance: If only the people who voted in 2010 show up this November, you can kiss all this goodbye, he said. Youll see the beginning of the end to ... an historic turn toward full democratic government in this country. ... The goal will be to erase not just Obama from the history books, but any evidence that someone of his background should ever think of being president. It will mean victory for the haters. It sounds like the wish was father to the thought in Mr. Matthews case. As it so often is where hes concerned. When it comes to haters, old Chris is no slouch himself. But the American electorate had other ideas in 2014 -- and how. Not all last years political utterances were memorable because they embarrassed. On the contrary. Some made the papers -- and turned around elections -- because they appealed to the best in us, not the worst. For example, there was Greg Abbott, the much-admired attorney general of Texas who this year was vying to succeed the verbally awkward Rick Perry as governor of that state -- and whos been a paraplegic since he was caught under the collapsing branch of an oak tree back in 1984. His memorable, and inspiring, utterance: I am living proof that a young man can have his life broken in half, and still rise up to be the governor of this great state.... His inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 20th in Austin. Read more at jewishworldreview/cols/greenberg010915.php3#kPfZmGzcXw0UHCuu.99
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