Originally Posted by Ardy
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In your opinion has it always been thus? Would our nation have been equally suspicious of George Washington speaking it school children?
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Has the nation changed?
In a more innocent era, I think we all at least understood that it was the President speaking, and not some squatter in office. The public discourse has gotten more vulgar and polar over the last 40 years.

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