In a press conference today, President Obama was talking about the declassified report on interrogations that's going to be coming out soon, and one of the things he said was "we tortured some folks". (The report is about enhanced interrogation techniques, by the way, that he had stopped when he came into office.)
I was watching Bill Maher later this evening, and there was a Republican strategist on who was offended by the fact that he used the word folks. Apparently, he felt that the word usage wasn't "presidential". No. What was not presidential (in my opinion) was using those techniques (yes, torture) in the first place. I'm a lot more comfortable with my president using colloquialisms than I am with him prosecuting wars based on shaky information.
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