Whiner of the Year

There's no shortage of contenders for this award, but I've narrowed it down to these finalists, who will be given a choice of cheddar or gruyere:

Harriet Christian (and PUMA): The heroine of the PUMA movement to make Hillary Clinton supporters look as foolish as possible, Harriet made whining history with her racially tinged diatribe at the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting. With a voice that's equal parts Edith Bunker and latter-day Lucille Ball, the deck was already stacked against her.

Joe the Plumber: Joe gets points for the breadth and stamina of his whining. First, he whines to Barack Obama about paying taxes on a business he lied about being able to buy. Then, it turned out he wasn't actually a plumber, and had a tax lien against him. Next, he whined about the media, even as he glommed onto anyone with a microphone. Finally, he whined about John McCain making him feel "dirty," after McCain made him famous.

The American People: So says Phil Gramm, and he's sticking to it. Of course, he might have only been referring to the Americans who live outside of Sarah Palin's "real America."

Bill Richardson: He gets extra points for the journalistic quality of his whining. After James Carville called him "Judas" for endorsing Barack Obama over his close, personal friend Hillary Clinton, Richardson wrote a whole fricking editorial whining about it. I was happy to extract a hypothetical apology from Howard Wolfson, then get Carville to double down on the barb. Fun stuff.




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