Maureen Dowd: A liberal would never take his own side in an argument

The New York Times ^ | 20 August 2011 | Maureen Dowd

[MegaSilver]

President Obama was on the way to Alpha when a plea came for him to be, well, more alpha....

Let us take today’s lesson from Frost, who deliciously wrote in “The Lesson for Today”:

I’m liberal. You, you aristocrat,
Won’t know exactly what I mean by that.
I mean so altruistically moral
I never take my own side in a quarrel.

[MegaSilver]

Well, I guess Maureen Dowd knows which side her bread is buttered on, huh? Fancy that. Yes, this application of Frost is totally bogus, but still, this is further than most had expected to see her go.

But I've been saying for several years now, Maureen Dowd isn't a "liberal" any more than she is a "conservative" (and believe it or not, there are actually lefties who have accused her of being a conservative!)--or anything else. I remember someone said that even "nihilist" would be too flattering, implying as it does a commitment to some philosophical principle. She just picks whichever side she can write the flightier column for. She's a carefully crafted East Coast version of a Valley Girl, whose choice of topics is supposed to flatter East Coast nihilists into thinking themselves culturally superior to West Coast nihilists.

[tutstar]

Bfl

[skully]

If I was Liberal I wouldn't take my own side in an argument either.

[SW6906]

I’m just here for the CZJ pictures......

[FrdmLvr]

Is Obama so isolated he can’t see that Americans are curled up in a ball, beaten down by a financial crisis, an identity crisis, a political crisis and a leadership crisis?

Not at all. He's not veered off-course, he's right on schedule in implementing his "transformational CHANGE", aka Cloward and Piven.

[raygunfan]

the comments section after her piece is hilarious.....apparently we tea party types are responsible for every ill, ever, including apparently, The Fall

[Texas Eagle]

Is Obama so isolated he can’t see that Americans are curled up in a ball, beaten down by a financial crisis, an identity crisis, a political crisis and a leadership crisis?

Curled up in a ball? Like a baby? Maureen views people the same way Bamboozle does. In fact, ALL Liberals view people as helpless little children who are incapable of wiping their own butts without some sort of government assistance.

That may be true of DemocRAT voters but not the rest of us.

I ain't curled up in a ball. I'm chomping at the bit to vote in the next election. In the meantime, if I have to wash dishes to get by, I will.

[aruanan]

Is Obama so isolated he can’t see that Americans are curled up in a ball, beaten down by a financial crisis, an identity crisis, a political crisis and a leadership crisis?

Maureen, it's Americans' fists that are getting curled into a ball.

[Bender2]

Re: I’m just here for the CZJ pictures......

You want to see pictures of my wife? I'll... put your eyes out!

Well, give him... an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

No, give him... an 8MM Mauser!

What was that.. I didn't hear you, Teddy?

[Dahoser]

The blatant disregard for the rules is appalling.

[SW6906]

That’s more like it!!

[andy58-in-nh]

Two birds; one stone:

"Within, the bride in the dusk alone
Bent over the open fire,
Her face rose-red with the glowing coal
And the thought of the heart's desire".

- Robert Frost

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL

You don’t disappoint!

[Stepan12]

Liberals are so moral? Such as the Messiah?

Evan Thomas: Obama sort of God

[Rummyfan]

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a pool hall near

-- Robert Frost

[GOPJ]

If I was Liberal I wouldn't take my own side in an argument either.

Good one, skully... liberals live to feel they're 'oh so superior' to the rest of us. So superior and condescending they can win without taking their own side? Oh yeah, I'm sooooooo impressed.

Maybe they should try to impress us with a few ideas that actually work ... for a change.

[ken5050]

Dowd is a caricature of herself...a present-day Pauline Kael..

[Niteranger68]

She would make more sense if she just beat her head on the keyboard for 5-10 minutes. Her only real talent is being man-repellent.

[vetvetdoug]

Yep, I am just here for the pictures of CZJ too....I don't give a rat's arse about reading Modowd.

[driftless2]

She and other radical feminists like her should be called abortioners, because being pro-abortion is usually the only issue they care about. And sticking it to men.