Kewl Kid High
by digby
John Kerry is a decent man and he doesn’t deserve this kind of treatment by the low-life little creeps who make up the DC press corps. This snotty derision from a bunch of overpaid, useless, psychologically stunted twits is a new low.
The kewl kidz are back on top and they are sharpening their claws on Democrats again. From their nasty little Clenis fantasies to talking about Hillary’s “girl humor” to making shit up about John Kerry crying when he bowed out of ’08, it’s obvious that they are gonna party like it’s 1999. I can’t believe it.
Update: The Queen Bee weighs in on Senator Clinton. It’s not too nasty.
This is interesting, though:
She uttered the most irritating and disingenuous nine words in politics: “If we had known then what we know now. …”
Jim Webb knew. Barack Obama knew. Even I knew, for Pete’s sake. The administration’s trickery was clear in real time.
She’s right, of course. But, Maureen Dowd has a twice weekly column in the NY Times, the most valuable journalistic real estate in the world. Does anyone remember her saying anything about that?
Update II: Actually, I stand corrected. I just went and looked and she did. The problem is that nobody took her seriously because she explained it like this:
”My head hurts. Pillow, puh-leeze! I can’t find a way out of the Middle East, and if it blows sky high, I can’t invade Iraq in time for the 2004 election and I’ll lose the war on terror. I could end up a one-termer, just like Poppy. How did a creep like Clinton manage two?
To her credit she did write this in August of 2002, which was very early:
Like a buoyant Dr. Evil holding a napping Bush Mini-Me in a Snugli, Mr. Cheney seems to relish running the world alone. Consider how primary the secondary man is. Without Mr. Cheney, America would not be planning to invade Iraq. Who else understands why the U.S. is starting a war without provocation for the first time in its history?
Perhaps everyone should have been reading Modo for foreign policy punditry instead of Tom Friedman.
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