A village voice speaks — from the crypt

I nearly blew my coffee out of my nose when I read this, from David Broder, to be published in tomorrow's WaPo.

The country faces a choice between two men who both promise the nation a more principled, less partisan leadership.

Broder says this is the best campaign he's ever covered. The best? Well, maybe the craziest and even the most exciting, from his Village perspective. "Best" is a word that just doesn't fit. And Broder's forcing an equality between the presumed governance styles of both candidates is, at the very most charitable, absurd.

As for "more principled" — see RJ Eskow's piece, noted immediately below.

And for "less partisan" — well, Tristero at Hullabaloo has the last word.

Update: Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of The Australian says something a lot different from Broder, and a lot closer to the mark:

THIS has been the worst US presidential campaign I've ever seen. Vacuous, fatuous, misleading, dishonest, trivial, at times unhinged in its disconnect from reality.

I don't agree with Sheridan's general slant (he leans to the right, and doesn't like Obama) but I think his lede quite captures the "American Idol" idiocies of our post-modern campaigns.