October 16, 2007

While the Needle'rents enjoyed an evening with Bruce and the gang (bet you thought this entry was going to discuss Springsteen and the E Street Band's political agenda), we were spending time with Seymour Hersh.
Hmmm.... which do you think was more fun?


Actually, Hersh proved to be the educated, thoughtful, and fascinating reporter we expected. Though his pessimism was overwhelmingly depressing. He expressed his hopelessness with this administration - "These people don't care about what we write." "It's too late for impeaching." "We just need to wait it out." "My mantra is 460 more days, and that's a long time." Understandably, we were depressed... enlightened, but depressed. Here is today's interview from the Sacramento Bee.

Here are a few choice quotes that he repeated today:

"In terms of changing policy, it's really tough with this crowd. ... it doesn't matter what you write, they don't care."

And here's the reality check we all may need: "if anybody thinks it's going to be a shoo-in for Democrats next year, they are kidding themselves. The Republicans, whether you like them or don't like them, they stand for something, whether it's bombing and killing and being tough, or beating the brains out of prisoners of war...The Democratic candidates have to decide whether we're in this war or not. I want someone to tell me in three or six or nine months, or one or two years, it's going to be better there. Nobody can tell me that."

Hersh ended the evening by saying "We need to be out by midnight, if not tonight, then midnight tomorrow."