Mayberry Machiavelli(s)

You must recognize the title to this post. That's what John DiIulio, Bush's highly touted Director of Faith-Based Programs called the administration after he resigned in frustration and revulsion at what he was seing done, not done, and undone.

Well, Tom Shales, media critic for the Washington Post fleshes out the characters a bit after last night:

One longtime political observer -- among the friends canvassed by this critic -- was more irreverent about the debate and how the two debaters came off: "It was Andy Griffith meets Barney Fife," he said, with Kerry in the Griffith role -- solid, sanguine, sensible -- and Bush as the nervous Fife.

Could have been worse. Could have compared it to the time Jethro wanted to become "a double-naught spy" on the Beverly Hillbillies.