Rice chokes on his words too

It's ironic that in Jordan Rice's April 11 column "Choking on Words," an argument against the importance of "off-hand remarks," his own off-hand remarks are the ones that stick in our minds. Maybe I seem to have "adopted my candidate's sense of humor," but I think that if a writer is going to denigrate a presidential candidate, he should at least be explicit about it. Conversely, if an article is not intended to have a political leaning, then it shouldn't. Rice's passive-aggressive "off-hand remarks" about Hillary Clinton and her personality did nothing for his article. "Focus on the issues that actually matter," Rice says. He shouldn't frivolously attack candidates from his high horse when his entire article is arguing against this sort of pointless mud-slinging.

Sandeep Prasanna

Trinity '11