Possible Clues:

• Miserable aim to get new leader
• Worthless article yields nothing for American
• Forlorn thing, replacing love with one
• Really wretched
• Bad, like some failures
• Miserable thing -- article has nothing going for it
• Wretched sailor caught boarding fast plane
• Totally hopeless
• Forlorn — humiliated
• Pathetic thing with a replacement for old ...