Obnoxious ?
Celia Cohen is not my favorite person. Her website, Delawaregrapevine, is to Castle, Carper and Biden what Pravda was to the Soviet Union.
So someone check me on this:
In fact, there has been some back-room chatter about drafting Ferris W. Wharton, the ex-prosecutor who gave Democrat Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III a scare last year on his way to attorney general.
Wharton would have to explain away one particularly inconvenient statement — “I don’t want to be anything but attorney general” — but this is politics, after all, where campaign promises tend to disappear like so many Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Is the insidery wink about Weapons of Mass Destruction obnoxious? Cohen regards politics as something that should be left to professionals. But are Delaware’s pundit elite so divorced from day to day life that they lump in the Iraq War in as a part of their parlor game?
We have had over 3,000 American and untold Iraqis die as a result of Mr. Bush’s lies. Shouldn’t we avoid making fun of the fact that the WMD’s story was bullshit?
No. You’re right. It is obnoxious. But it is slightly less obnoxious than Mike Castle pretending that the war does not exist.
Anon,
I still know people who regard Castle as an honorable man in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary.
Maybe his unwillingness to admit that the war exists might flow from some vestige of honor that would compel him to apologize for his “go along to get along” stance during the beginning of the war.
I don’t know. It probably isn’t that complicated and he is simply a fraud.
Ya gotta hand it to Celia. It is a clever mind that can wrap such an elitist view into such tabloidal garbage.
Celia takes herself seriously enough that she must think her audience does too.
It begs the question who she must think this audience is. What audience would? Gossipy elites? Elite gossips? Political junkies? Junk politicians?
It can’t be anyone serious about political activism or civic involvement. These are trifling concepts in Celia’s fantasy world of politics as a soap opera of insiders.
In Celia world political parties are closely held assets of wealth and power. Elections are just cutesy candidate games. Public offices are just chips traded around a revolving table of special high rollers.
Anyone who really gives a shit about the world cannot want it to be like Celia’s.
You really nailed what I was clumsily struggling toward. Thank you.
Great to know people like her are in the circle of trust in Delaware.
The question to ask of Celia Cohen — the one she refuses to answer — is who pays her bills. Until she fesses up, why should anyone believe a word she types is anything but anonymous character assassination of the type she tried to perform on Richard Korn?