Minor Notes
December 26th, 2006Senator Biden is running for President. Believes his experience and his honesty will get him elected. It’s very clear to me that he won’t win and is likely running so as to keep himself in the public square, leading to an appointment as Secretary of State or Vice President if a Democrat winds up winning. He knows it just like I know that George W. Bush doesn’t read the newspapers, contrary to what he’s saying now.
Is there hope for newspapers after all? Readers may be abandoning the printed versions, but over the last couple of years, at least one person seems to have started reading them, at least sometimes. He lives in the White House. President Bush declared in 2003 that he did not read newspapers, but at his final news conference of the year last week, he casually mentioned that he had seen something in the paper that very day. Asked for his reaction to word that Vice President Cheney would be called to testify in the C.I.A. leak case, the president allowed: “I read it in the newspaper today, and it’s an interesting piece of news.”
Oh, right, I’m sure he found that out through the paper. He doesn’t have a staff that would’ve told him before the newspapers did. Right.