* Whether it’s provided by WikiLeaks or a slaughter house, it’s still sausage–making. Whether it’s John Podesta campaign scheming or Hillary Clinton acknowledging the public/personal dichotomy of elected officials, it’s all sausage-making. It’s not about character flaws–more like political process flaws.
Just as nobody wants to see the compromise process that leads to passed laws. Just as nobody wants to see the cutting-room floor in the news business. It’s the final product that matters much more than the sausage making. It is what it is. But we’re not exactly talking experience, intelligence and temperament here.
* It was ironic seeing Hillary Clinton and Al Gore campaigning in Miami. You didn’t see that surname combo on the hustings in 2000 when Bill Clinton was Gore’s presidential albatross. But now it’s all Dem hands on deck–from Barack and Michelle Obama to Joe Biden, erstwhile rival Bernie Sanders and ass-kicking populist Elizabeth Warren.
* Has it dawned yet on Republicans how it happened that it was their party–the one of Limbaugh not Lincoln–that Donald Trump chose to pursue his ultimate ego-gratification goal? Call it political karma.