MAUREEN DOWD: Nuking the White House

The New York Times ^ | November 20, 2010 | Maureen Dowd

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yes, he wrote a pro-unilateral disarmament article in the school newspaper as an undergraduate, IIRC. Surprised?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mr. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the “work” he’d done in his first week or two in office. You missed that story? It was 2009.

[skinkinthegrass]

Here.. feel better? lol!

@ least, it took only 9 entries...
hope i don't get "banned' for that...re-posting that pic.
I posted pic. of pretty (modestly dressed) women on Helen
Thomas threads....where they were badly needed....(were deleted :)

[ColdOne]

Yes, he wrote a pro-unilateral disarmament article in the school newspaper as an undergraduate, IIRC. Surprised? Extremely.

[skinkinthegrass]

I'm only here for the CZJ pics.
But that is plenty of reason!

LL!
Hmm...plenty!
and rubbing Mo Do's nose in IT.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Obama’s Sundial article:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM116_obamaessay.html

Obama: No Nukes In Any Circumstances
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-no-use-of-nukes-in-any-circumstances

[ColdOne]

Thank you for those links. Will look them up.

[okie01]

Maureen, you forget to tell us what’s so great about this treaty. Surely you don’t think foreign policy is all about politics and personality

You noticed, too.

750 words about the need to ratify the START Treaty. But not one word about why it would be a good idea...

[chickadee]

#19

I didn’t say it snarkily enough. I was being facetious. Ms Dowd was engaging in ethnic stereotyping. The left always gives themselves a pass on that kind of thing.

[Jim Noble]

[Grizzled Bear]

Besides, a man who won the Nobel Peace Prize on layaway.... I don't care who you are...that's a great line, and sooooo true too.

What does she mean by that?

Gee Coldone, what do you think she meant? Do you believe Obama earned the Nobel Peace Prize or do you think the incredibly biased socialist Nobel Committee might have given him the prize just because they expected great things based on his Barrack Husseinedness?

[vlad335]

Maureen, you forget to tell us what’s so great about this treaty. Surely you don’t think foreign policy is all about politics and personality. /sarc

Obama is saying this treaty is absolutely essential to our national security.

How so?

[Gondring]

I read an article in Time today that stated that 1 in 5 people in the United States suffer from mental illness.

1 in 5 have mental illness, but not all suffer---some get lucky and get one of the fun ones.

;-)

[Gondring]

So is it true about John Boehner?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is what true about John Boehner?? Did I miss something?

[Brian Allen]

The headline caused my heart to miss a beat, it’s true — but now I’m with, “No pic of CZJ yet? I’ll come back.”

[jeltz25]

I’m no expert, but I think this whole start thing is pretty much politics. If W had signed the exact same treaty back in say 2007, every GOP Senator would have voted for it. If Obama had signed the same Moscow treaty that W signed back in 2002 and which every GOP Senator happily supported, none of them would support it today. And vice versa. If McCain had won and signed this new START the GOP would be for it and the dems would be against it.

I mean, where were all these conservatives complaining when W reduced our nuclear arsenal back in 2002? Where were all these conservatives when his father and his SecDef Cheney reduced our stockpile of tactical nukes back in 1991/2?

[jeltz25]

Doesn’t Maureen understand that’s the whole point of the show? To have your fans vote for you. She dind’t seem to mind when Cowboy and football fans were voting for Emmitt Smith(or Jerry Rice, Warren Sapp, etc...), or when Olympics fans were voting for Apolo Ohno, Kristi Yamaguchi or Shawn Johnson(or Evan Lysacek). Should Bristol tell people not to vote for her?

I could easily have said after 2008 that Barack Obama’s fans have hijacked what’s supposed to be a serious election.

[Gondring]

Is what true about John Boehner?? Did I miss something?

You posted the thread so I thought you'd read the column.

John Boehner skipping the TSA check when "flying with the people"...?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Oh yeah, that. He’s a high government official, so what? Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and hundreds of others don’t go through TSA screening, all the way down to “deputy undersecretary” and even SES levels. Congressman Boehner is currently the House Minority Leader and will be the Speaker soon. Is she obtuse or just selective in her outrage I wonder.