Saturday, March 14, 2009

"The Neighborhood Crank"

Preach to me, Paul Waldman:

The Tiny Battles of a Has-Been Candidate

Imagine that you pick up your copy of The New York Times and see a front-page article proclaiming that John Kerry is now such the linchpin of debate in Washington that he has taken "center stage." Then you surf over to one of the Sunday morning talk shows to find George Stephanopoulos or Bob Schieffer interviewing Michael Dukakis. Then you turn your radio and hear a story on NPR about Bob Dole's objections to the president's latest legislative initiative. You'd probably ask yourself, What is going on here? Why am I being forced to listen to these people?

I expect you've figured out where this is going. And it gets even better.

(h/t: John Cole)

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