The Café has been all a'twitter—in fact, so is Twitter—about the heat Bernie Sanders has taken for a jacket blurb he contributed to a book critical of the president's performance in office. In truth, this is rather inconvenient to a Democratic presidential campaign. However, the older members of the staff are more than aware that there are bigger problems regarding endorsements in which a Democratic politician can become entangled.

I mean, Jesus H. Christ in a Chilean dungeon.

"I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time."

Dear Ms. HRC: There is being tone-deaf, and then there is not being able to tell the difference between the New York Philharmonic and an abbatoir. What putative progressive—hell, what putative human being—would brag on being endorsed by the most pus-blooded vampire in American public life? Here with an opposing opinion are 40,000 dead Chileans, 100,000 dead East Timorese, and countless dead Laotians, Vietnamese and dead Cambodians.

And she's the one with the foreign policy chops.

Good god.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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