There was nothing surprising when the members of ABC News "This Week" roundtable - host George Stephanopoulos, Cokie Roberts, George Will, and Sam Donaldson - convened that the first subject would be the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia from the previous Thursday. Nor that, with the exception of Will who seemingly could not talk about anything beyond capital gains taxes, most of the chatter would be a defense of Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson who moderated the event. The consensus was that the criticism of the moderators was terribly unfair and tantamount to killing the messengers, whatever in the hell that means. But the most risible comment was, as usual, reserved for the bombastic Donaldson who even at this late date fails to comprehend that there is no correlation between the volume of one's voice and the ability to express clear, cogent ideas. Donaldson was mortified at the Obama supporters whom he found to possess "a sense of entitlement" about the party nomination. What is curious about Donaldson's observation is that he could not bring himself to say the same of Hillary Clinton supporters. Using a term like "entitlement" to characterize one candidate's supporters as distinguished from his opponent's supporters strikes me as an attempt to diminish the candidate.
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