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• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:47 AM

  Concern Trolling of the Highest Order

  So we find ourselves in a political doldrum. The daily deluge of news and hysterics from the campaign season turned off on November 5, sending the media into a frenzy of reporting on nothing more than embarrassing speculation and innuendo. Must. Hang. Onto. Ratings. and. Clicks. Watching MSNBCCNNFOX these days is like watching Showbiz Tonight. Will Hillary take the SoS job? What about Joe the Evil?

  Of course, their audiences and visitors play right into this. But I don't recall Obama or his approved spokespeople saying a single word about Clinton (beyond Obama's gracious remarks on 60 Minutes) or Lieberman (beyond that they don't want to referee Senate squabbles). And yet a whole cottage industry of concern trolling on both points has emerged. As has the complete overstatement of the "Team of Rivals" business. On 60 Minutes, Obama mentioned reading a lot of Lincoln because he thought "he was very wise." Not sure how we leapt from that innocuous statement to Lincoln's cabinet being a template for Obama.

  It's also getting tiresome hearing that the "progressive left" (now reduced to commenters on Daily Kos and FireDogLake) own the keys to the kingdom. Talk about ego! How about instead of the characteristic worrying, we find some new websites to visit and TV shows to watch and let the Obama administration take shape as it will. Or at least shut up for five minutes.

  Change was always about issues, not about people.

  —nepats Read nepats's other letters
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