Commentary Magazine   Flotsam and Jetsam  Just in case Hillary
Clinton didn’t experience enough condescension during the
primary they are now going to pray for the dear, sweet thing.
What does she want? Other than things she can’t have (the top or
bottom of the ticket) I think Ted Kennedy said it: “For all
those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the
cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never
die.” (And we know how that election turned out.)  Nine days of
vacation. First the seal, then the “president” sign on his chair
and now taking time a chunk of time off in August. Almost like
he thinks he’s already president. Or like he doesn’t have to run
very hard.  A sentence only the New York Times could love. But
hard to argue that military tribunals are pawns of the Bush
administration.  Another pundit for the Dewey analogy! (But no
one ever said of Dewey: “arrogant, aloof and somehow ethereal.
There is no there there.”) Still she’s right: “For the first
time the idea began to