Bitter

I read the titles and teasers of these two pieces and I thought, they can't possibly be as bitter as they sound: WaPo's Tom Shales' In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC and SFChron's Robert Scheer's The man who would be Bush, the lead sentence of which is, "Are Americans unusually stupid, or is it something our president put in the water?"

Phew. Some Americans are unusually stupid, anyway.