Joint New York Times/Washington Post Death Spiral Watch
Outsourced to Attaturk:
Rising Hegemon: Heroic levels of inanity: Remember when a columnist was expected to at least be sober?
I have a girlfriend in New York who puts her boyfriends through Feats of Strength...
Or, perhaps you remember when they weren't supposed to be laughably pathetic?
That noon, I had lunch with two veteran Republican operatives not working in the McCain campaign and asked them what they would recommend for the Arizona senator. "Get Alan Greenspan to run with you," said the first...
Yes, this from David Broder is so wrong on so many levels:
A Deputy Dilemma For McCain: That noon, I had lunch with two veteran Republican operatives not working in the McCain campaign and asked them what they would recommend for the Arizona senator. "Get Alan Greenspan to run with you," said the first. "Or Warren Buffett," the second offered. Neither of those celebrated financial wizards is likely to be available....
But it got me thinking.... I spent the rest of the afternoon on the phone.... Several [Republicans] suggested that McCain has been so candid about his own lack of expertise in economics that... he could be well advised to tell the public that he wants his running mate to be the "deputy president" for domestic affairs.... But who?... [McCain] clearly needs help from someone to compete with Obama on the economy. Greenspan and Buffett aren't going to do it for him.
And this from Maureen Dowd is worse:
Ich Bin Ein Jet-Setter: I have a girlfriend in New York who puts her boyfriends through Feats of Strength... to see if they can pass muster with her athletic clan. It starts to dawn on these young men in the middle of their romantic triathlon that they are on a perilous quest and that if they falter, another lad might touch down in Kenosha several months hence.
Now Barack Obama is about to embark on his own Feats of Strength. Maybe that’s why, back home in Chicago, he worked out three times on Wednesday. An Associated Press report jokingly compared his fitness regime to that of Mr. Universe and marveled at “a distinct lack of visible sweat on the Illinois senator.”...
He has a week to prove his commander-in-chiefiness, even though he doesn’t have the authority to do anything commander-in-chiefy.... [H]e must bedazzle three European countries without causing Middle America to begrudge his popularity with a bunch of foreigners... he can’t be seen as too insidery with the Euro-crats.... Even if Obama is treated as a superstar by W.-weary Europeans, some Obama-wary Americans may wonder what he’s doing there, when they can’t pay for gas, when the dollar is the Euro’s chew toy, when Bud is going Belgian and when the Chrysler Building has Arab landlords. “I don’t know that people in Missouri are going to like seeing tens of thousands of Europeans screaming for The One,” a McCain aide snarked to The Politico...
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
