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Oddly enough, a century ago we did much the same thing with a rude Dutch term, pappekak , which we anglicized into the anodyne poppycock .
The speech writers are busily at work spinning out their anodyne alliterations, their balanced bromides, their cautious clarion calls.
Because this is the problem: In the face of our postwar, retail, mobile, corporate culture, democracy is not only a seemingly ineffectual anodyne to social blight; it becomes a part of the problem.
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.
Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.