This week's "Gravitational Pull-up" challenge from the Unpaid Punditry Corps was to identify the single post you are proudest of, and the one you most wish you had never written.
I have deliberated and cogitated over this, and nominate my worst ever post as this one:
Neocons Want Rumsfield Sacked
I was way off target, because as we now know Rummie seems to have a magical "get out of jail free" card. The man the neocons wanted to replace him, his deputy Wolfowitz, has been shuttled of to the World Bank by big-oil pressure and Rummie lives to deny all personal knowledge of his job another day. I still like the one quote from neocon Ralph Peters though :
"We did a great thing in Iraq, but we did it very badly."
How true.
My best post, so I have been told by several of the veterans of Iraq over at Operation Truth, is The GOP Hates Our Troops which pulled together various threads I and others had been watching for some time and drew the inevitable conclusion - that Republicans in general and Rummie in particular are better at talking about supporting their soldiers than actually doing so.
Runner up for best post, by a very close margin, was the linked double post on Universal Healthcare: Public vs. Private Healthcare, Part One - Getting to the Facts and Public vs. Private Healthcare, Part Two - Counting the Costs (and Savings). Both posts rank pretty high now on any Yahoo search on the subject and I keep getting hits on both from Universities, Hospitals and health groups - often the same group coming back for a second look - so I must have gotten something right.
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