Ana Marie Cox explains delegates
Go to original by Time.com Washington Editor Ana Marie Cox on Swampland
Ana Marie Cox has been one of my favorite political commentators since the days when she was running Wonkette. She’s crisp, intelligent and witty. I don’t agree with all of her positions, but I’ve never seen her indulging in the kind of vicious cat-calling that others (insert …. er… Maureen Dowd?) substitute for reasoned analysis. Today, she kind of blew it on the delegates controversy by rushing ahead with spurious material from Politico. She soon corrected herself, though, and generously published an explanation from DNC Press Secretary Stacie Paxton.
It is superfluous to say that this is someone to watch, but I’ll say it anyway. Watch Ana Marie Cox. She’s seems a bit nervous in the webcast above. That’s part of her charm. We need more human beings commenting on politics. She is very definitely human. In our time, what greater praise can we offer? In defending silver android Jimmy Carter against hair dye humanoid Ronald Reagan, Hendrik Hertzberg (then Carter’s chief speech writer, now a New Yorker senior editor) wrote to me in 1980, “He is not insane.” Very true. Times have changed, however. It is no longer enough to be sane. One must be human, too. That is not a trivial task. Let’s hope that Ana Marie is up to it.
