Oh, Please, Bill . . . PLEASE! We Can Only Hope!

[Ben_Hecht]

If I'm d_b'ing, I apologize.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10kristol.html?hp

The suggested VP pick for McCain is too delicious to contemplate.

 

[imjustagirl]

What am I missing? I see no suggested pick beyond Lieberman or Petraeus, and that's down in the second-to-last graf.

Then again, I'm politically retarded.

 

[jakewriter82]

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/03/17/080317taco_talk_hertzberg/

This suggestion is more intriguing to me.
Especially if Obama wrapped up the Dems. nomination.
She's more-than qualified, but it'd be a risk. She'd have the Fredo scent attached to her, deserving or not.

 

[BYH]

He also mentions Clarence Thomas, who goes years without opening his mouth during oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

What am I missing? I see no suggested pick beyond Lieberman or Petraeus, and that's down in the second-to-last graf.

Then again, I'm politically retarded.

Check the bottom of the second-to-last graf. A current Supreme Court justice is prominently mentioned.

 

[pseudo]

Clarence Thomas?

WHAT ?!!?!

So help me God, I'd vote for Angela Davis first.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/03/17/080317taco_talk_hertzberg/

This suggestion is more intriguing to me.
Especially if Obama wrapped up the Dems. nomination.
She's more-than qualified, but it'd be a risk. She'd have the Fredo scent attached to her, deserving or not.

You've fingered the difficulty. She wanted her present job so badly, she's gone against her better judgment too many times to count, winding up as one of the Chief Enablers in what's devolved into a horrid situation.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Clarence Thomas?

WHAT ?!!?!

So help me God, I'd vote for Angela Davis first.

I'm uncertain which would be more amusing.

 

[imjustagirl]

I've skimmed both of these. It appears to take 20 inches to get to the part anyone's talking about.

Who writes this ****?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I've skimmed both of these. It appears to take 20 inches to get to the part anyone's talking about.

Who writes this ****?

A gentleman who previously served one term as Dan Quayle's brains as the VP's chief of staff during his mercifully-short tenure in the office.

 

[imjustagirl]

I mean, is this how all editorials are written? "I'm going to ramble about some Democratic election, then talk about how ****ty Bush is, then rush my point in the final two grafs, then couch it all with a "sure there are other options" and hope people like it?"

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I mean, is this how all editorials are written? "I'm going to ramble about some Democratic election, then talk about how ****ty Bush is, then rush my point in the final two grafs, then couch it all with a "sure there are other options" and hope people like it?"

Kristol's usually a better writer than this, actually -- especially when he's doing '08 horserace anaylsis in terms of GOP vs. Dem and what may happen in the voting booths. It's when he tries to write policy suggestions that he exposes his ample neocon shortcomings.

 

[imjustagirl]

OK, none of that makes any sense to me.

Here's what I'm asking. Two opinion pieces, two in which the nut graf (to me) was WELL down the story. Like 10-15 grafs down.

Is that customary?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

OK, none of that makes any sense to me.

Here's what I'm asking. Two opinion pieces, two in which the nut graf (to me) was WELL down the story. Like 10-15 grafs down.

Is that customary?

No.

 

[imjustagirl]

Phew.

 

[BYH]

Is there any chance it was buried b/c even he knows how outlandish it sounds?

Perhaps he wanted to have it on record, in case hell freezes over and it happens and he can say he called it first...except he knows it's the longest of long shots.

 

[zeke12]

Jeebus, is that the worst idea of all time?

That's New Coke bad.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Is there any chance it was buried b/c even he knows how outlandish it sounds?

Perhaps he wanted to have it on record, in case hell freezes over and it happens and he can say he called it first...except he knows it's the longest of long shots.

It's all grotesque.

I don't doubt Patraeus harbors ambitions . . . but not for '08. And I can't envision the hardcore embracing a chameleon like Lieberman . . . trivia question, for sure: who was the only guy to run for vice president for both major U. S. political parties? Bizarre.

 

[Beaker]

Gotta love how Kristol calls Thomas the most impressive conservative in American public life. Yecch.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Gotta love how Kristol calls Thomas the most impressive conservative in American public life. Yecch.

Yep . . . a guy with more psychological problems than Tony Soprano.