Wanker, thy name is Dana

I know he's probably pissed at his parents for giving him a girl's name, but why does the asshole have to take it out on the readers of the Washington Post. And Somerby doesn't even mention Milbank's...um...creative use of ellipses. Here's Milbank in today's home town paper of the world's most powerful people:

The 5:20 TBA turned out to be his adoration session with lawmakers in the Cannon Caucus Room, where even committee chairmen arrived early, as if for the State of the Union. Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual president. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door -- just as they do for the actual president.

Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama's biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris.

Wow, that black fellow sure has a high opinion of himself, doesn't he? The world's been waiting for him, huh? John Lennon had nothing on him.

Perhaps, but apparently this is what Obama really said.

BUT A DEMOCRATIC SOURCE SAYS: “His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT about him. [The Post] left out the important first half of the sentence, which was along the lines of: ‘It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol … .”