Reihan Salam, in characteristically excellent form, dismantles the New York Times’ lazy and baffling endorsement* of Hillary Clinton and, as a bonus, comes up with the best line I’ve read today:
Clinton must sorely regret that she can’t use proxies to pointedly accuse Obama of fathering a black child — because, after all, he has two of them, and they are adorable.
*As a veteran of comfy days writing editorials myself, might I also suggest that you could scarcely hope to find a better example than this of the stuffed-shirt pomposity that plagues the genre. The Times’ leader is simultaneously platitudinous, banal, witless and appallingly written. To wit, for instance:
“this country faces huge problems, and will no doubt be facing more that we can’t foresee.”
Well fancy that!
Also, this paragraph on John Edwards is worth pondering:
“We have enjoyed hearing Mr.
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