It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.  I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that repeated in my lifetime.  It’s based on Thumper’s forgotten rule; “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”    This is something we want all our kids to learn, because we all realize how you say something carries as much meaning as what you are trying to say. While the rhetoric used in much of the presidential campaign removed Thumper’s rule to some distant place, some of...