(1) I don’t know if it was Obama or Hillary (I suspected Hillary), but it’s really something to focus group beforehand.” In December, when Tanden wrote in praise of the Paris climate deal, Podesta responded: “Can you believe that doofus Bernie attacked it?” Then, in March this year, Clinton strategist Minyon Moore opined: “I think Sanders is a rule breaker and has no institutional loyalty to the Democratic Party; we should expect him to ignore the rules and persist in his quest to flip superdelegates despite overwhelming evidence that reflects his considerable weaknesses with the Democratic base and no doubt in the general.” Tanden, meanwhile, pulled no punches when Clinton’s campaign hesitated over whether to condemn Democratic activist David Brock for demanding Sanders’ medical records.
(2) And yet us doofuses who came here to watch thought he might bother saying something interesting beyond that!
(3) He was, it seemed, destined to be a professional doofus.