How is Play The Pill?
What did Maureen Dowd write in her column “Taxing Times for Obama” in the New York Times May 18 issue? What does the Dowd-Irs investigative study mean? Aiming
for equality, is Obama a right man? Instead he played the pill, as he too often does, huffily telling reporters, “Well, I’ll let you guys engage in those comparisons, and you can go ahead and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions. “What
does playing the pill mean? I never found this expression as an idiom in the Merriam Webster Dictionary or the incidence in Google N Grams.
At the same time, what does J. (J.) mean? What is this F.K.wit’ mean? What is being in the media is like?
What’s your opinion on the matter?
A pill is “a disagreeable or tiresome person,” often because he is a square (overly conventional) or a Debbie Downer (overly negative).
People were not witty and charismatic in John F. Kennedy’s moment of truth. But they spoke in the words of Jesus as a pill. So he chose the role of a pill, rather than a pill. Is it not idiomatic, but just colorful?
