These Are Our Leaders?

Now that we've had the official versions, several new 2008 campaign books are dishing the dirt. The provisos and cautions about one such book in this New York Times piece probably should be applied to others as well, but at least some of this high level gossip and revelations for a purpose (political or/and personal) has the ring of truth.

And it's about almost everyone: John (and Cindy) McCain, Sarah Palin, John and Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary and Bill Clinton. In addition to the above-cited piece, there's tidbits here , and here, and here, and here. To name a few.

The name conspicuous by its absence is Obama. Only friction between the presidential and VP campaigns has been reported.

But the stuff reported about the others--some of it tracking with stuff I read before, some just with my intuitions about these people--makes you wonder about the kind of people our current system insists on as political leaders. That as well as the latest self-serving craziness from Michael Steele and most of what we know about other GOPer leaders.

The only solace is that the sanest one of the bunch got elected President.