Obama-era Mysteries

Glenn Greenwald - John Harris and Jim VandeHei yesterday wrote a long, prototypical Politico article packed full of the trite, adolescent features that make it the lowly D.C. gossip rag it is: quoting anonymous White House functionaries sniping at the Left, petulant attacks on Unserious bloggers, obsessions with substance-free, trivial horse-race chatter, etc. etc. I don't want to give the article much attention, both because it's plainly designed to provoke anger and links, and because Digby already wrote the definitive response, far better than what that article deserved. In doing so, she happened to produce one of the best political analyses of the Obama administration that has yet been written; I recommend it highly. But there are two passages from the Politico article I want to juxtapose because doing so demonstrates one of the great mysteries of the Obama era. Read more.