He presented several focus groups with "alternative" descriptions of global warming, and found that "climate change" tested best, for the same reasons it remains populars with people in denial: Retreating glaciers after the last Ice Age qualify as "climate change" and no one would say they were a bad thing. It's an Orwellian term, but according to Wikipedia Luntz considers that a complement because "To be 'Orwellian' is to speak with absolute clarity, to be succinct, to explain what the event is, to talk about what triggers something happening… and to do so without any pejorative whatsoever." Hence I don't use the term "climate change" any more than I'd describe a wreck as "a car buying opportunity".

While I'm sure you went to plenty of Boy Scout meetings as a kid, what I took issue with was Huckabees suggesting that the Indonesian public schools Obama intended in Indonesia were madrassas (not to mention the implication that all madrassas are evil; "madrassa" is just "school" in Arabic, and if you were to say, in Arabic, where your kids spend most of each weekday, you'd have to say they're in a madrassa, because that's the word). Obama attended St. Francis of Assissi school in Indonesia, too; is Huckabee condemning the Catholic "madrassa" also? Neither school is called by that term in Indonesia, and both would be in, say, Iran. It sounds like Huckabee is criticizing Obama for having a non-American stepfather and/or dredging up the old "the President is a terrorist because he went to a MADRASSA (even though only people who think he's a terrorist call it that" insanity, both of which I thought were beneath Huckabee (they certainly should be).

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