08:59 am
Team of Stupid
This morning’s Washington Post has not one, not two, but three separate stories on the same topic this morning (and not one but two op-eds and an editorial that mention it as well). Apparently President-elect Obama and Secretary of State-designate used to be rivals or something.
And as we all know, once you’re rivals, you can’t be friends or co-workers or anything. It’s not the Washington way.
Look, I understand the fascination here — I’ve written about it myself. But it’s not like we haven’t obsessed over the topic for the past two weeks. And three articles and three opinion pieces? Sheesh.
A few years ago, I was a finalist for a job. It turned out that two close friends were the other two finalists. These were two friends with whom I had worked closely, and the three of us regularly had lunch together. But once we competed for that job, which one of us got, we couldn’t be in the same room or talk to each other.
Except, of course, two weeks later, when we had lunch. And at every lunch thereafter. It’s a shame that we couldn’t be both rivals and friends. Or coworkers for that matter, given that I’d be delighted to work with both again.
I guess I’ll have to break the bad news to them next time we have lunch.