Get Retarded

It’s often said that liberals don’t know how to take yes for an answer and invite people into the coalition. Well, true enough. Here’s the Washington Post endorsing Obama, and I’m hung up on this:

On most policies, such as the need to go after al-Qaeda, check Iran’s nuclear ambitions and fight HIV/AIDS abroad, he differs little from Mr. Bush or Mr. McCain.

I know! I know. I should see the forest. But this tree needs to be stuffed into a woodchipper. The only way anyone could accept the above statement is on the level of pure bromide. Yes, we all wish to confront al-Qaeda and fight HIV/AIDS and find ponies. The issue is policy. No one who has paid even cursory attention would ever say that these three men have the same policies toward these broadly-shared-to-the-point-of-uselessness goals.  It’s fitting that the most obnoxious editorial page in the business, which makes such a ceaseless habit of hectoring other people — typically on the left — for their supposed lack of "seriousness" should be so blatantly and casually agnostic to policy.

By which I mean: welcome to the family, Fred Hiatt. We’ve got the grill going out in the back. Burgers or chicken?