With Friends Like These

This whole Desirée Rogers business is very silly. I tend to think that Ms. Rogers got a little too high on the fumes of her lofty position prior to her arrival in Washington. Things came crashing down (as they often do), if this article is to be believed, before the Housewives wannabes swooped down in all their tacky glory. But such is life, I suppose - even Desirée Rogers can't be perfect.

My one big objection to this article is this:

"Public life has singed presidential friends over the years with striking regularity, people like Bert Lance during Jimmy Carter’s administration, Vincent W. Foster Jr. and Webster L. Hubbell during Bill Clinton’s, and Harriet E. Miers and Alberto R. Gonzales during George W. Bush’s. Washington can be seductive and then destructive."

I really don't think that the Rogers flap is any comparison to Vince Foster - who committed SUICIDE or Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales - two bungling incompetents.

Classic lack of perspective, in the redoubtable New York Times, no less!

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