"Verbose, shapeless, platitudinous, complacent, ill-disciplined, arrogant and humourless"

"One of the reasons why the Bush-despisers will be waking up stunned on the morning of November 3 is because they spend way too much time talking to each other and sustaining each other's delusions," writes Mark Steyn. It's the Pauline Kael thing (no one I know voted for Nixon):

"These guys are out of touch with reality," twitters Wallace Shawn, referring to Bush and Dick Cheney rather than himself and McCrum. "They could -- and probably will -- do anything. This is the scariest I've known it."

If the graduates of the creative writing schools are beginning to sound drearily predictable, the humdrum gentlemen of the press are writing ever more creatively. Just over a month ago, John Kerry gave his "I'm reporting for duty" convention speech. I thought it was typical Kerry -- "verbose, shapeless, platitudinous, complacent, ill-disciplined, arrogant, and humourless," as I wrote in the Telegraph back then. But what do I know? The American media hailed it as a triumph.

Scratch a Democrat, and there's no love lost on Kerry. Just a lot of hatred expended on the current Leader of the Free World.

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