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Maureen Dowd: Don't know much about algebra (Or manners, or decency, or journalism...)
The New York Times ^ | 21 January 2005 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 01/24/2005 6:06:14 AM PST by .cnI redruM

WASHINGTON Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, has been pilloried for suggesting that women may be biologically unsuited to succeed at mathematics. He may have a point. Just look at Condoleezza Rice.

She's clearly a well-educated, intelligent woman, versed in Brahms and the Bolsheviks, who has just been rewarded for her loyalty with the most plum assignment in the second Bush cabinet. Yet her math skills are woefully inadequate.

She can't do simple equations. She doesn't even know that X times zero equals zero. If you multiply 1,370 dead soldiers times zero weapons of mass destruction, that equals zero achievement for Rice, who helped the president and vice president bamboozle America into war.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bitteroldhag; cheapshot; condi; dowd; mandatorybarfalert; mba
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To: bikepacker67

Now I, and many others I'm sure, get it. Wasn't much of a competition for MoDo was it?


21 posted on 01/24/2005 6:24:41 AM PST by RightCanuck
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To: speed_addiction

LOL!!


22 posted on 01/24/2005 6:26:49 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Dean For DNC Chair, Gore For The Nomination!)
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To: .cnI redruM; Peach
If you multiply 1,370 dead soldiers times zero weapons of mass destruction, that equals zero achievement for Rice, who helped the president and vice president bamboozle America into war.

Dowd is a vicious and ignorant person.

First of all, 1,370 soldiers have not been killied in action in Iraq; unfortunately, soldiers die during routine training, while being transported, etc., so statistically speaking, some of the non-combat deaths that have occurred in Iraq would have occurred even if we had never invaded.

Secondly, we have found WMD, disproving the baseless theory that Hussein had destroyed his pre-Gulf War stockpiles and/or had no post-Gulf War WMD activities. We have found rockets filled with cyclosarin, WMD-related programs, and seed stocks for various biological weapons programs.

Thirdly, we didn't go into war because of then-current possession of WMD; Dowd, like that witch Boxer, needs to actually read the Congressional War Resolution in order to understand the multiple reasons, which included Iraq's aggression against the U.S., its support of terrorist activities, and Hussein's oppression of the Iraqi people.

And lastly, the SSCI investigation on pre-war intelligence cleared the Bush administration of any allegations of misusing that intelligence to mislead us into invading Iraq. The resulting report was approved by unanimously by all Dems as well as Republicans. And the only person I have found on record calling Iraq an "imminent threat" is former senator John Edwards.

23 posted on 01/24/2005 6:27:29 AM PST by HenryLeeII (Democrats have helped kill more Americans than the Soviets and Nazis combined!)
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To: randita

Actually she's right - which is why we need to start applying a simle rule of warfare. When confronted by a fanatical enemy, willing to die to the last man, you've got to KILL the last man.

(Please note, I said KILL, not rehabilitate, reeducate, convert or appease. And no points awarded for style.)


24 posted on 01/24/2005 6:28:44 AM PST by shibumi (Every adult citizen should be permitted concealed carry.....of a tactical nuclear weapon)
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To: HenryLeeII

>>>And the only person I have found on record calling Iraq an "imminent threat" is former senator John Edwards.

And that was only to his political ambitions...


25 posted on 01/24/2005 6:28:55 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Dean For DNC Chair, Gore For The Nomination!)
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To: mariabush

What is she insinuating about the president, his wife, and Condi in a "Texas triangle"?

Dowd is an utterly predictable one-trick pony, though this one is particularly vile. The fact that she isn't fit to serve Condoleezza Rice breakfast made this one especially painful to read.


26 posted on 01/24/2005 6:29:36 AM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Christine Fraudoire is not my governoire.)
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To: tai-pan

Are you kidding?!? Zeta Jones marks the official Dowd downward spiral into insanity and insignificance. It's a MUST post photo of Catherine.


27 posted on 01/24/2005 6:29:49 AM PST by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
What a sick puppy! Mo Dowd needs her head examined, provided her proctologist can find it.
28 posted on 01/24/2005 6:35:10 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Dean For DNC Chair, Gore For The Nomination!)
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To: .cnI redruM

I'm not hopeful.


29 posted on 01/24/2005 6:37:58 AM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Christine Fraudoire is not my governoire.)
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To: .cnI redruM

"It's obvious Maureen Dowd hasn't gotten over her breakup with Michael Douglas who she thinks is a real American president but he didn't do anything but utter the words written for him by Aaron Sorkin and stand where someone director told him to stand and have his hair coifed by somebody who knew what to do, and then he blew it by running off with Catherine Zeta-Jones, leaving Maureen Dowd in the lurch. All she's got now is bourbon for mouthwash, and it's showing on her columns." Rush Limbaugh


30 posted on 01/24/2005 6:41:36 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.)
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To: .cnI redruM
WHAT?!? A Dowd article where she doesn't plug the president, the VP and cabinet in to some movie or television roles?

HOW TO WRITE A DOWD ARTICLE:

Take a jack-in-the-box in hand. Spin the crank until the head on a spring ejects from the box (you may dance to the music of the jack-in-the-box but it is not required). Place the jack-in-the-box in front of any computer keyboard.

Smack the Jack-in-the-box in the back of the head. The springed head will strike the keys of the keyboard. Repeat until article is written.

Send the article to the editor for grammar and typo corrections.

VIOLA! Your very own Dowd article. Now sit back and enjoy the accolades from your leftist peers. It's that simple!

APf
31 posted on 01/24/2005 6:42:51 AM PST by APFel (The left are to people as wolves are to sheep.)
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To: Numbers Guy
Always the best part of any Dowd column, the C Z-J photos.

Yup! Who cares about the yammering of that nitwit Dowd, bring on C Z-J!

32 posted on 01/24/2005 6:42:55 AM PST by 6SJ7
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To: goldstategop; secret garden
Denny Crane: "I look to two things: First to God and then to Fox News."

That was hilarious, and would make a great tag line.

33 posted on 01/24/2005 6:44:59 AM PST by NeoCaveman (OK, so now who is the true evil genious Rove or Belicheck?)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

34 posted on 01/24/2005 6:46:27 AM PST by speed_addiction (Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
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To: .cnI redruM

Like the teenager said, when his mother found the magazine stash, "I'm only reading this for the pictures....."

Of Zeta-Jones.


35 posted on 01/24/2005 6:46:36 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: APFel

A friend of mine writes software, and I'm trying to get him to make a Dowd generator.


36 posted on 01/24/2005 6:47:09 AM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Christine Fraudoire is not my governoire.)
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To: bikepacker67

nice photo. makes that crap in the article all the more irrelevant.


37 posted on 01/24/2005 6:47:34 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (Leftists Are Losers.)
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To: gridlock

Even Mo's family can't stand her!!!!!!!


38 posted on 01/24/2005 6:48:03 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ('We voted like we prayed")
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To: TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa

All she's got now is bourbon for mouthwash, and it's showing on her columns." Rush Limbaugh
Too funny, too true.


39 posted on 01/24/2005 6:50:10 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Dean For DNC Chair, Gore For The Nomination!)
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To: HenryLeeII
If you should be hospitalized sometime this year, you have a better chance of dying due to mistakes made by personnel than being killed in Iraq. Unfortunately people are hurt and die keeping us safe.
40 posted on 01/24/2005 6:51:11 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ('We voted like we prayed")
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