Nonetheless, they were appreciative of those who did brave the miserable conditions to watch the race.
Apart from being miserable, did the first ladies have anything else in common?
Did she like it and generally feel satisfied and happy or did the work make her feel miserable?
"I didn't want to do the weak, unfulfilled, miserable crying, selling your kids for dope, being beat up by your husband types of roles anymore," she said.
That is, stories can exist as a kind of "worst that could happen" entity, to remind us that the happy norm is not omnipresent; that good fortune is not proof of virtue; that statistical beneficence does not mean the miserable starving guy doesn't exist.
A demanding start did not help but it does not excuse the miserable season which was in part down to Grant's choices.
So, historically, how does this miserable March rate?
He did not solve the miserable ratings math at Current — as my colleague Brian Stelter pointed out, in his 40 weeks on Current TV, he had an average of 177,000 viewers at 8 p.m., a shadow of his former incarnation at MSNBC where he drew a million-plus people a night.
You almost want to say, "Excuse me, did you hear the miserable thing I just said?" Neither approach is wrong, per se, as long as you respond well and feel comfortable with it.
That eroded Mr. Bush's credibility on postwar issues, some White House aides concede under cover of anonymity, and made him more vulnerable to charges like the one that Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, made today, that the White House "did a miserable job of planning for a post-Saddam Iraq".
