Broder has a problem with the man recently selected to fill President Elect Obama's Senate Seat.
Oh by the way, creationists, if you doubt that dinosaurs ever existed, meander over to the editorial page of the Washington Post. For some reason, this one is still lumbering about.
Anyway Governor Blagojevich culled Roland Burris and Broder is pouting.
Burris, he writes, has done very little. Except break the color barrier statewide in Illinois and stay honest
in a corrupt quagmire. And serve the citizens for decades.
Many elected leaders can not attain higher office, and often those who do, were better at their previous jobs.
Winning elections is a very different skill than governing. Often the people best suited to deal with the issues facing us have trouble glad- handing folks. Due to the virulent strains of communicable diseases, very few kiss babies any more.
Heuristically it makes sense. If one has the acumen and vision to assess and find solutions to problems besetting our nation, how likely is it that the same person wants to haul out of bed at 4 am to meet workers entering a plant for their daily shift.
Of course, thanks to the Bush Administration, that scenario is becoming quite rare. People having jobs.
I know what you are thinking, Obama executed a brilliant, nearly flawless campaign. But it was mainly organization and digital.
The folks running it understood the Internet. Plus they had more money than Halliburton overcharges in a month's time.
Seriously, there was so much loot that the campaign could afford to produce and air a 30 minute commercial on several television stations simultaneously.
The candidate stumbled a bit and grew during the 50 or 60 years of the primaries. Wait- it was less than two years. Sorry.
Obama also looked uncomfortable when pressed to do old fashion vote getting. You know mingling with the people. Eating fried slop and pretending that he preferred bowling to golf.
But I digress, back to Illinois.
I don't care who takes that seat as long as the person is a Democrat and more importantly, liberal. Not a bad word folks.
But I wonder how Fitzgerald, who through cowardice or incompetence, was unable to construct a compelling case against the folks who compromised Valerie Plame, and thus the CIA, and thus us, has the nerve to show his face again.
And jeopardize the case here because of either again incompetence or the need to preen and prance in front of television cameras.
When Bush first lied to the people and the Congress to instigate an invasion against Iraq, the reasons to do so kept changing.
At one point the rationale became it was important to take down a cruel dictator. If that is the quest, where to begin?
Should our country start alphabetically or by region. Perhaps omega first, so we can go to Zimbabwe.
If we are looking at corrupt alderman or governors, where shall we being? After the traitors and war criminals of the Bush Administration have been punished.
Indict Bush and Cheney,
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