The Dinner Conversation is Easy to Imagine

I guess when you're President, certain unpleasant tasks come with the territory:

President-elect Barack Obama was the guest of honor at a Tuesday evening dinner party attended by a roster of conservative journalism’s leading heavyweights.

Held at the Chevy Chase, Md., home of Washington Post columnist George Will, the dinner was attended by fellow Postie Charles Krauthammer, as well as David Brooks and William Kristol of the New York Times.

To start with, there is nothing that you could offer me that would be sufficient inducement to sit down and share food and drink with Charles Krauthammer, that fucking poisonous genocidal toad.

But let me guess: All of them pushed the idea that Obama is lucky that he ran against that bitch, that he managed to get blacks to line up behind him without giving them anything, and that he'll need the help of conservative pundits to navigate the barbed thicket of Washington. Obama just tried to stay ahead of the bigot curve and made himself look as smart as he is, then he went home to wash his hands.

I guess this piece was a rush, because get a load of this sentence:

The columnists were sometimes among Obama’s harshest critics on the campaign trial and the meal seems likely an effort to get off on the right foot with potentially influential critics as Obama prepares to take office next week.

"Campaign trial"? Sounds right.