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'An orgy of the 1 percent': NYT columnist Maureen Dowd slams Obama over his lavish 60th bash that has tarnished the Democrat party with its 'limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring'
Daily Mail ^ | Aug. 15, 2021 | Andrea Blanco

Posted on 08/15/2021 11:16:33 AM PDT by rickmichaels

A New York Times star columnist has lashed Barack Obama for axing people who helped him to the top from his lavish 60th birthday guest list in favor of A-list stars.

Maureen Dowd branded Obama 'Barack Antoinette' - a reference to the out-of-touch renaissance queen - and likened him to Jay Gatsby, the shallow people-pleaser from F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby in her scathing piece, published Saturday.

She highlighted how the former president cut his ex-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and former campaign strategist David Axelrod from the original 600-person guest list, despite both helping him secure his presidential victory.

Dowd was also scathing of Obama's decision to disinvite Caroline and Teddy Kennedy - key members of the Democratic political dynasty whose endorsement in the run up to the 2008 presidency was seen as critical to his eventual choice as the party's nominee.

Those who did make the cut after surging COVID rates forced Obama to slash his guest list included Beyoncé, John Legend, Steven Spielberg and Bradley Cooper - none of whom knew Obama before he ascended to the presidency.

They danced the night away at the president's $12 million compound in Martha's Vineyard - with Dowd saying the ostentatious display was also damaging to the Democrat party as a whole.

She explained: 'The party crystallized the caricature of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden had to fight against in order to get elected,

'It was as far from Flint and Scranton as you can imagine: an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring.'

Some guests cracked jokes about being cut from the guest list, with Caroline Kennedy telling the Times: 'I would have disinvited me if I was him.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: dfwgator

Sour grapes from a sour old broad.


21 posted on 08/15/2021 11:42:20 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: rickmichaels

Them BMW Bolsheviks sure know how to par-tay. I wonder if Barry got his fill of bud and coke?


22 posted on 08/15/2021 11:47:40 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: rickmichaels

oof - bad grammar, Caroline.


23 posted on 08/15/2021 11:51:12 AM PDT by avital2
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To: rickmichaels

Marie Antoinette was alive during the renaissance? News to me the renaissance lasted into the late 18th century!


24 posted on 08/15/2021 12:01:26 PM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: PghBaldy

The original article made no such claim.


25 posted on 08/15/2021 12:23:47 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: vaskypilot

She was executed in 1793. Bookend to the Renaissance perhaps.


26 posted on 08/15/2021 12:45:14 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: beef

Maureen Dowdy.


27 posted on 08/15/2021 12:54:02 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: monkeyshine

The Renaissance was the 15th and 16th century, not even close to the late 18th century, which was the age of Enlightenment. I cringe when I see how ignorant some writers are! And they tell us what to do!!!!


28 posted on 08/15/2021 1:08:23 PM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: PGR88

Yup. Whenever he opens his mouth - for me, it is obvious as day, I hear the Con, the Bull, the jive-turkey sling - coming out of his mouth. He wants to be the cool cat that everyone goes ‘ooooh - isn’t he mesmerizing’. What a pathetic joke.


29 posted on 08/15/2021 1:09:15 PM PDT by time4good
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To: rickmichaels

Good summation: an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring.’


30 posted on 08/15/2021 1:20:06 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: PGR88

True, next one up is Pete Buttigieg!


31 posted on 08/15/2021 1:58:25 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: PghBaldy
"“Teddy Kennedy” -— Someone should water Maureen’s drinks.
Ted is literally dead."

But you can be certain "Teddy" still voted in the last election.
And will be voting in many more elections to come.

32 posted on 08/15/2021 2:48:55 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: rickmichaels

Her complaint was that more weren’t allowed to come spread Covid.


33 posted on 08/15/2021 3:08:24 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: rickmichaels

MoDo didn’t actually think she was going to be on the guest list, did she? 🤔


34 posted on 08/15/2021 3:10:06 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: Mears

Not sure why he would matter much.


35 posted on 08/15/2021 4:02:13 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Thank you, you are right. I was commenting on this article, I do not normally read the NYT. Here is the clip from the NYT:

“It was a bombshell when Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama in 2008 along with her uncle Teddy, a turning point in the primary against Hillary. After being disinvited from the party, Kennedy had the speaker at her home on the island for dinner. “I would have disinvited me if I was him,” she joked.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/14/opinion/barack-obama-birthday.html


36 posted on 08/15/2021 4:10:57 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: beef

That was exactly what I was going to post!


37 posted on 08/15/2021 4:55:25 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: vaskypilot

Well I supposed even the Noblesse Oblige like Maureen Dowd can be critical of this Administration, but can’t bring themselves to recognize that revolutions are the result of tyranny. Better to just compare Marie Antoinette as “renaissance” than to depict her end the result of the people pushed to their brink.

Though in a way, she’s also calling Obama a Queen.


38 posted on 08/15/2021 4:57:42 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: rickmichaels
Celebrating the obama nativity.


39 posted on 08/15/2021 10:56:35 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: vaskypilot

Good catch


40 posted on 08/15/2021 11:16:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it's about them )
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