Man, democrats are good at the Spineless Waffling thing. John Kerry's laughable attempt at a presidential bid (remember that personality transplant after the DNC?), now this. First Carter goes off on the Bush administration, calling it the "worst in history" (src=bda and really, it's hard to argue otherwise). He then later recants, saying he was comparing the Bush admin's foriegn policy to the foriegn policy of the Nixon administration. The Bush Administration response? Hand-print "Carter" into the "______ is irrelevant." madlib, photocopy, distribute.

On the one hand, I watched "wild feeds" (satellite uplinks of raw footage transmitted from local affiliates to networks for editing) during the summer of 1996, so I've seen firsthand exactly how the media will twist what a politician actually says into what the media wants him (or her) to say. On the other hand, unloading Nixon is seriously, seriously weak.

On the gripping hand, it's politics. It's bullshit. It'll continue to be politics and bullshit until enough americans get sick of it.

Ever try to make a lazy man care about something? There's nothing like an activist to turn a civilian off to an otherwise valid cause.... and it's hard to actually care about politics when your "choices" are fervently advocated by people you can't stand to listen to.