Sid Vicious on Matt Dowd (The Libs don't trust him either)

www.salon.com ^ | 4/5/2007 | Sidney Blumenthal

[ktvaughn]

April 5, 2007 | As he tells it, Matthew Dowd's conversion from true believer in George W. Bush to disenchanted critic is a chapter in a "Pilgrim's Progress" through the wilderness of this world. His long quest for agape, as related to a New York Times reporter, begins about a decade ago with Dowd in the Slough of Despond, "frustrated about Washington, the inability for people to get stuff done and bridge divides," when suddenly a great-hearted figure appears who lights a candle in the darkness. "It's almost like you fall in love," Dowd professed. But his dream turns to dross and his faith into doubt. Bush is not the deliverer but the deceiver. "I had finally come to the conclusion that maybe all these things along do add up. That it's not the same, it's not the person I thought." But Dowd is unsure whether Bush is a changed man or a captive. "He's become more, in my view, secluded and bubbled in."

Whether Bush has strayed or been led astray, the fellowship he promised is lost. Dowd does not offer to save Bush, but only claims to seek salvation himself. His trials and tribulations -- "one of Mr. Dowd's premature twin daughters died, he was divorced, and he watched his oldest son prepare for deployment to Iraq as an Army intelligence specialist fluent in Arabic," according to the Times -- have seared his soul. But these are elements of a story, in which the afflicted Dowd appears utterly passive -- not the full story....

[ktvaughn]

Interesting....

[dawn53]

Rather than burn him as a heretic in an auto-da-fé, the White House dismisses him as a head case -- Dowd's "Pilgrim's Progress" turned into "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

How dare he compare his life to Bunyan's book. The man is a troubled soul, proved by this statement:

He contemplates writing a public confession, an Op-Ed piece, that a man he has wronged, Sen. John Kerry, is virtuous. He would title his article of atonement "Kerry Was Right," but decides not to submit it.