Steve Stark is back writing for the Boston Phoenix.
I don't understand why, they've got David Bernstein the best shoe leather political reporter in Boston...What need have they of Steve's pompous political fantasies?
Nevertheless the Phoenix craves Steve the most, they gave big play to an article he churned out a couple of week's ago desperately trying to dig up a leftist democratic primary challenger to President Obama in 2012. Sans a single on the record quote all Steve could do was sorta wish that maybe Senator Bernie Sanders might take a flyer in the NH Primary.
Thin stuff mah frenz, and it will get still thinner as the year goes on and we get closer and closer to Decision 2012.
Connoisseurs of Steve Stark's hamfisted writing style will recall with the simplest nostalgia that he did much the same when Bill Clinton in the White House. Stark spent much of Clinton's first term predicting the President's resignation or alternately that some phantom liberal kamikaze would Eugene McCarthy Bill's ass in the NH Primary.
None of it happened, but it filled up a lot of column space in the Boston Globe all the same.
I don't quite get Steve's obsession with insurgent democratic presidential candidacies, but there is an incumbent democrat in the White House, then Stark is almost always on the prowl for some leftwinger to topple the President. It is like he wants to re-live 1968 again and again and again.
But then that is Steve Stark in a nutshell, he likes to Predict the Past and for all that he remains astonishingly inaccurate.
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