Why JE must be discredited at all costs.

[frazzled]

41. Oh, give it up

This man was a snake oil salesman from day one. I never understood, back from before 2004, how anyone ever fell for his insincere son-of-a-millworker, two-americas, caring about the poor shtick. All he ever did was to enrich himself, and when he had enough money, tried to enrich himself through power--shifting any way the winds swept him (whether as a founding member of the Senate DLC and Democratic co-sponsor of the Iraq War Resolution or the suddenly antiwar defender of the poor).

For me, it always brought up that defunct but still-potent reaction: "gag me with a spoon."

The segment of the left that fell for all of this should feel chastened and contrite, and should be learning its lessons. Instead, people are doubling down. Blechhh.

(Rant concluded. But this kind of hagiography needs to be tempered with an equal dose of venom.)