Thursday, April 15, 2004
Maybe we’d feel differently if a competent guy had stolen the election of 2000
On the post-conference front, casting around for people who haven’t been stunned into silence or incoherent sputtering by Tuesday night’s spectacle: Charles Pierce has a few searing paragraphs on the subject, prompting once again the question of when the incandescent Mr. Pierce will get himself his own column/weblog. Pierce links in turn to Slate‘s William Saletan, who seems finally to have gotten point number one, namely, that the Bush presidency is incredible. As are the myriad pathologies that have prompted the usual array of toadies and hacks to insist that their man’s latest prime-time meltdown is in fact an index of his steely resolve.
But let’s give 52.13% of our fellow Americans a break-- after all, they didn’t vote for this guy.
