nom=de=plume wrote:
In the area of political ideas, reportership, statesmanship, results,
whatever you choose... ok, some are a bit wacko, but still....

I pick (in no particular order):

Bill Clinton (N. Korea thing esp., plus he was a great president)
Great president? Do you have visions of being Monica?

Hillary Clinton (class act, esp. lately)
Dumbest move she made was becoming Sec of State. Obama's Czar's have
emasculated her.

Robert Gates (a patriot)
Lackey and lap dog.

David Petraeus (an intellectual, a warrior, a patriot, one tough guy)
Jury is still out.

Pat Buchanan (wacko, but he's been around a long time and is pretty smart)
Very smart man, just can't take to the people.

Dana Priest (amazing reporter)
Nope.

Tom Cruise (wacko, but works hard, pretty cute too)
Freaking Scientology idiot.

Stephen Colbert (funny, funny)
Agree.

Jon Stewart (I'm not your trained monkey seriously funny)
Not so funny any more.

Bill Maher (wacko funny)
Never has been funny.

Thomas Ricks (author, Fiasco)
Jeremy Scahill (author, Blackwater)
No opinon on either.

Patrick Fitzgerald (US attorney, one of the good guys)
Proved to be a Democrat operative when he failed to stop the Plame
investigation when he found out that Armitage was the leaker.

Al Franken (comedian who is just too funny, seriously smart Senator)
He has never been funny.