Monday, May 05, 2008

Hammer, Meet Nail

James Wolcott hits the nail on the head re online BHO- v. HRC-supporter sniping (in which I've played my part):

Such fratricidal skirmishing may sound silly and minor-league, like a feud between high-school cliques where the two sides sit on opposite ends of the bleachers, texting each other inappropriate messages full of misspellings and nonperforming grammar. But there is a deeper frustration at work, a more unappeasable, unaddressed anger. And that is the failure of Democrats and activists to bring the Bush-Cheney administration to account for any of its destructive and disastrous misdeeds over the last seven years (even raising the possibility of impeachment was treated as poor etiquette by the queasy Democratic leadership), the impotent fury over the knowledge that the masters of disaster will leave the White House unscathed, unaccountable, their smirks intact. There will be no day of reckoning, nothing to stop their clean getaway.

When ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz mentioned during an interview with Vice President Cheney that two-thirds of the American people thought the war in Iraq wasn’t worth fighting, his reply was “So?” ...

Cheney’s sarcastic “So?” was a spit in the eye of not only the American people but of the critics of the Iraq policy whom he could treat as irrelevant, and why not? Since 9/11, he and the president had had a free hand and played it for all it was worth.


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