"Thompson was the only candidate with a concrete proposal, offering ideas that were bold and unpopular"

Didn't get to this yesterday. One of the best lines in a while that sums up exactly what is wrong with the Post and the modern construction of journalistic impartiality.

For some inane reason it has been decided that offering solutions that both fail to achieve the broad goals of the program (for Social Security preventing poverty among retirees) and are wildly unpopular is a virtue.