If anyone has any idea what Doug Wilder is talking about here, I'd love to know, because as far as I can tell, it's a bunch of incoherent, self-centered drivel. It's not even that I disagree with what Wilder writes, I simply have no idea what the heck he's trying to get at, except to blather on aimlessly. As one commenter puts it:Another waste of newsprint, as once again Wilder mainly talks about himself and acts as his head cheerleader. Beyond self-congratulation, his columns lack substance beyond the obvious.My "favorite" lines from Wilder's op-ed?
*"I want to add the observation of one who literally predicted the Deeds defeat in the pre-mortem published in this newspaper weeks prior to the election."//Wow, a few weeks before the election, you "literally" predicted that Deeds would lose? That's just amazing; you and about a gazillion other people who had been watching the race for months. Also, why "literally?" As opposed to figuratively? Metaphorically? Epistemologically? Whatever.
*"I will state that Deeds' inability to resonate with the base of the party was not his only failure, as some have claimed."//No, you don't say!!! I'll tell ya, it's at times like this that I'm grateful we have Doug Wilder around. I mean, who would have ever figured out that the Deeds campaign didn't just have one failing? I know I never would have, even though I wrote a lengthy "After Action Report" that went through all of this in excruciating detail.
*"I am not saying that my refusal to endorse Deeds was the cause of his defeat."//My god, can any human being be any more self centered than Doug Wilder? Riiiiight, your failure to endorse Deeds caused him to lose by 18 points. [[rolls eyes]]
*"The senator from Bath County was not left floating like an abandoned buoy surrounded by nothing but the endless Chesapeake."//Warning! Warning! Really bad metaphor alert! Also, last I checked the Chesapeake wasn't "endless," in fact that's why it's a "bay" - "an area of water mostly surrounded or otherwise demarcated by land." LOL
*"The excitement and exuberance caused by the 2008 election has been suffused with numerous challenging and difficult hurdles, even more so than our nation has seen in previous years"//"Suffused with...hurdles?" Huh? The definition of "suffuse" is "To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light." How can you "spread through or over" a hurdle? Got me.
On and on it goes, what Doug Wilder's talking about, nobody knows. But one thing's for sure: the fact that his blatherings are published in the
