I think you're projecting on the politics. Though the author lamented Bush's 2004 win, "(In the alternate decade of fantasy, President Gore, forever slim and w

I think you're projecting on the politics. Though the author lamented Bush's 2004 win, "(In the alternate decade of fantasy, President Gore, forever slim and with hairline intact, not only reads those intelligence memos in the summer of 2001 but acts upon them; he also ratifies the Kyoto Protocol and invents something even better than the Internet.)" sounds like a direct condemnation of that "00 as the decade of Bush and Bush is bad" attitude. Also, I didn't catch the glowing reviews of Obama in there, except that she referred to him as an intellectual. I agree with you, though, that the article was basically content free.