I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but my will has been broken. I’ve realised that covering Mrs Clinton's campaign without explicitly stating that it has turned into a win-at-all-costs operation fueled by phony outrage, hypocritical proclamations and absurd notions of who is electable and who is not is an exercise in deliberate deception, and I can't do that. Perhaps I am weaker than my colleagues, but a certain fatigue sets in when trying to sort through it all. Mrs Clinton does have substance, and some well-thought-out policy prescriptions, but did you know Barack Obama is an elitist? Never mind that the Clintons largely agree with what Mr Obama said, or meant to say.The rest here.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I'm glad it's not just me
I was worried that I have been having my perspective skewed by reading too much Andrew Sullivan, but I think that rant from one of the (anonymous) normally very temperate, uncommitted bloggers at the Economist:
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