Madeleine Albright came on Today this morning with a very supportive Matt Lauer. First he read her a piece of Jessica Stern’s Bush-bashing NYT op-ed yesterday. Then he read two snippets from her current article in Foreign Affairs, having her react to herself. The second snippet said a President Gore would have done a much better job of rebuilding Afghanistan after a 9-11 counterattack, since Democrats actually believe in nation-building. Matt called it “tough stuff.” As if he knows about being tough when it comes to Madeleine Albright.

PS: Wesley Clark was hitting similar notes on CBS at the same time.