Okay, I don’t know Joe Klein, and don’t especially care to. He’s probably not a jackass. But he’s part of the problem, as far as I’m concerned. Old guard. A baby boomer. An insider. He fears the internets, and complains about them when they call him on his bullshit, which happens fairly often. He also writes analysis, poorly, and often, which means that he gets paid to comment intelligently on whatever’s happening, even when no comment is required, or when said comment will make no sense whatsoever.

From The Race Goes On in this week’s Time:

But the victories gave Clinton so much more. Even if she fails to win the nomination, as seems likely, she has finally defined herself as a public figure, and an attractive one at that, with a personality independent of her husband’s. She isn’t as clever as he is, but she’s just as tenacious … and, in an odd way, more vulnerable and more real. Her flashes of anger and sarcasm, her occasional emotional overflows, her willingness to just go on about health insurance — these are all recognizable human qualities that, in the strangest turnabout of this campaign, have made her seem more accessible than her opponent. For the first time, she doesn’t seem élite and entitled. For the first time, she’s almost one of us.

We’ve had, as she keeps reminding us, 35 years to get to know this candidate. If she’s not defined herself by now, she never will. And real analysis by Klein might perhaps examine Clinton’s weekly moltings; perhaps the reason we’ve never, as he claims, gotten to know the real Pabst-and-Flannell Hil is that there is no there, there, to begin with. She’s a vaccuum searching for power, and puff like Klein writes helps build the false narratives that keep her sucking.