James Wolcott describes: "watching Senator Joe Lieberman [...] drone his support for the nomination of Condi Rice as Secretary of Clueless, arguing that we should celebrate the breakthrough confirmation of an African-American woman for such a powerful post, even though her being African-American and a woman were irrelevant to her qualifications. Then why bring it up? I suppose it's progress of a sort when a duplicitous incompetent can be promoted regardless of race or gender [...] but it ought to make for a muted celebration." Indeed.
(Via Jon, who manages to be amused by it - no small achievement.)
Posted by geoff2 at January 26, 2005 08:56 AM