Poor pundits...

Remember that old riddle? It starts out, "You are the bus driver. At the first stop, 5 passengers board: 2 schoolkids with backpacks; a mother with a bag of groceries in one hand, a toddler in another, and a baby snoozing in the 'cudddlecarry' on her chest. At the next stop, one person exits for the junior high; 4 more students board, along with a businessman dressed in a suit, two women, and an elderly couple..."

And on and on and on through the daily stops, as the narrator gets more and more creative in inventing passengers coming aboard and departing at each stop. Then you ask the kicker, "What color is the bus driver's eyes?"

If it's the first time the listener has heard it, chances are they've been concentrating on the counting: trying to figure out how many people are aboard the bus at any given moment. You know you've got them if their eyes glaze over, and they look at you like, "What the hell kind of question is that -- what color are the bus driver's eyes??"

To me, the pundits covering this campaign -- some of them -- are much like those trying to figure out who's all on the bus. In then end, they've lost all track of just who the bus driver has been for these past 7 or 8 years.

To me, those pundits who were all giddy about GWB forfeited their political credibilty years ago. Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice... well by then, most have probably figured out it's best to just turn off, and not listen to what the talking heads think.

There is one alleged journalist I've been reading lately, solely for kicks -- if you follow this blog regularly, you can even name the name. It's for entertainment value really. Due to connections from the past, and the push to artificially integrate women into the field during the feminism heydays, she's been riding that bus a long long time herself. But what passes for a non-humorous column actually tackling the issues of the world went to the wayside long long ago.

Now, here's what she has to say today, in her apparent long-standing competition to help ensure no Democrat takes the White House next January:

It’s a hard sell for Hillary to say that she is the only one capable of leading this country in a war when she helped in leading the country into that war. Or to paraphrase Obama from the debate here, the one who drives the bus into the ditch can’t drive it out.

Now, who knew it was that evil Hillary driving the bus these past years, steering the country into a ditch? I mean... who knew?

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Though never his biggest fan, I already miss Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. Say what you will about his crusty personality, the man was intelligent in his thinking. And honest. Two traits that plenty of our pundits apparently tossed out the back window long long ago...