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Two Against The One (Funniest Dowd column in a long time)
New York Times ^ | August 19, 2008 | MAUREEN DOWD

Posted on 08/20/2008 12:00:16 AM PDT by tlb

a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal.

“Our toast to The One,” they say in unison, “is that he’s toast.”

“Obama should have picked you, Hillary,” John McCain tells her. “It isn’t fair, my friend. But it just makes it easier for me to whup him.”

Hillary replies. “I’m looking toward the future now, a future that looks very bright, once we send Twig Legs back to the back bench.”

“He’s a bright young man, but he got ahead of himself,” McCain says. “He needs to be taught a lesson, and we’re the ones to do it. ... And thanks again for BlackBerrying me the Rick Warren questions while I was in the so-called cone of silence.”

“Oh, John, you know I love you and I’m happy to help,” Hillary says. “The themes you took from me are working great — painting Obama as an elitist and out-of-touch celebrity, when we’re rich celebrities, too. Turning his big rallies and pretty words into character flaws, charging him with playing the race card — that one always cracks me up. And accusing the media, especially NBC, of playing favorites. It’s easy to get the stupid press to navel-gaze; they’re so insecure.”

McCain laughs. “...Seriously, Hill, that Paris-Britney ad you came up with was brilliant. I owe you.”

McCain lifts his glass to her admiringly. “...Pictures of him pushing around a golf ball while I’m pushing around Putin. Priceless.”

“I have a little secret to tell you about that, John. Bill made it happen. He loves you so much. He called Putin.

And you don’t have to worry about my army of angry women. We’ve spread the word in the feminist underground ... that ‘catharsis’ is code for ‘No surrender.’

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: catherinezetajones; hillaryclinton; johnmccain; mccain; modo; obama
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Dowd's obituary for the Obama campaign. It's all Hillary's fault Read the column, much too much to fit in the 300 word excerpt limit.
1 posted on 08/20/2008 12:00:16 AM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb

Rules is rules....

2 posted on 08/20/2008 12:05:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who is that??


3 posted on 08/20/2008 12:05:48 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Democrats still want to Impeach Pres. Bush and/or VP Cheney; keep your eye on these House hearings.)
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To: Finalapproach29er
It's not Murine Dowdy, and that's really all that matters, when you think about it*...

...

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*(young swimsuit model from Yahoo)

4 posted on 08/20/2008 12:11:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She is cute, but she does not look like Catherine Zeta-Jones.


5 posted on 08/20/2008 12:15:15 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (DEATH TO PUTIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I’m Proud_USA_Republican and I approve this message”.

—Paid for by friends of Proud_USA_Republican, G.O.P


6 posted on 08/20/2008 12:22:29 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conforms admirably to the spirit of the law, and never mind its letter.


7 posted on 08/20/2008 12:27:41 AM PDT by dighton
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To: tlb

Mo outdid herself with this one :)


8 posted on 08/20/2008 12:50:38 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I am still bitter.)
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To: tlb
I do not find the piece particularly funny.

To be funny, or even effective, satire must have an element of truth within it. If you examine the assumptions that underlie this satire you'll see that all the humor actually runs in the opposite direction than should be intended for this satire to be effective..

This is not funny because the charges against Obama are true and not manifestly false as would be required for the satire to work:

“Oh, John, you know I love you and I’m happy to help,” Hillary says. “The themes you took from me are working great — painting Obama as an elitist and out-of-touch celebrity, when we’re rich celebrities, too. Turning his big rallies and pretty words into character flaws, charging him with playing the race card — that one always cracks me up. And accusing the media, especially NBC, of playing favorites. It’s easy to get the stupid press to navel-gaze; they’re so insecure.”


9 posted on 08/20/2008 12:57:43 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: tlb

I take this column as Mo’s way of trying to belittle McCain (and Hillary) in order to boost her man Obama.


10 posted on 08/20/2008 1:02:25 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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BUMP what you said. Agreed.

IMO this sounds like some high-schooler’s first attempt at political humor.
Lame.


11 posted on 08/20/2008 1:04:29 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: nathanbedford

Agreed. It’s not funny. It’s the rantings of a paranoid lunatic, trying to pass her paranoia off as humor.


12 posted on 08/20/2008 1:07:06 AM PDT by smedley64 (UHbUHmUH- The incoherent candidate.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rules is rules....

The rule is Katherine Zeta Jones when MoDo is posted. :-)

See, Michael Douglas dumped MoDo for KZJ, so it's an exercise in rubbing salt in her wounds, I suppose.

13 posted on 08/20/2008 1:28:40 AM PDT by TChris (Vote John McCain: Democrat Lite -- 3% less liberal than a regular Democrat!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
1) That is not CZJ.

2) I don't really mind. = D

14 posted on 08/20/2008 1:58:02 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Lancey Howard

Agreed. I didn’t find it very funny.


15 posted on 08/20/2008 3:58:52 AM PDT by Ronin (Is there some rule that says that when an evil man gets sick, we must pretend he was a saint?)
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To: Lancey Howard

I thought it was one of her best, but that’s not much of a record.


16 posted on 08/20/2008 4:03:37 AM PDT by DOGEY
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To: tlb

There is missing ingredient in this article, Humor.

More of a cattiness than humor.


17 posted on 08/20/2008 4:16:43 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Say Obama were "Pinky", Then who is "The Brain"?)
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To: Lancey Howard

I view it that way as well.


18 posted on 08/20/2008 4:45:47 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Please note the rules regarding Dowd threads. There's a reason why posting pics of the ravishing CZJ is encouraged.


19 posted on 08/20/2008 5:07:21 AM PDT by redstates4ever
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Here you go. Happy Wednesday morning. :-)


20 posted on 08/20/2008 5:09:35 AM PDT by redstates4ever
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