Posted on 08/12/2005 10:08:45 PM PDT by Crackingham
President Bush has done so much for women. Not at home, of course. Women in jeans in America may have their rights eroded by an administration where faith trumps science, but women in burkas? The president can't talk enough about how important their rights are.
And in the administration's diplomacy-free foreign policy, five of its top spokesmen on the Muslim world are women: Condi Rice; Laura Bush; Liz Cheney, No. 2 in the Near East bureau of the State Department and head of the Middle East democracy project; Karen Hughes, the new under secretary of state for public diplomacy; and her deputy, Dina Powell.
W. thinks so highly of Ms. Hughes, his longtime Texas political nanny, spinner, speechwriter and ghostwriter, that he put his Lima Green Bean, as he called her when she prodded him about the environment, in charge of the critical effort to salvage America's horrendous image in the Islamic world - even though what she knows about Islam could fit in a lima green bean. Why get any Muslims involved in reaching out to Muslims? That would be so matchy.
The real role for the newly minted ambassador hasn't been defined yet, but so far it looks as if Ms. Hughes's first priority will be to take her spinning skills, honed for W. in 2000 and 2004, to improve his image, and his policies' image, on a global scale.
Just as she retooled Bush as "a reformer with results" and a "compassionate conservative," Ms. Hughes plans to inundate Muslims with the four E's: "engagement, exchanges, education and empowerment."
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What right has Bush eroded, Mo?
The right of old spinster cat ladies who yell at the neighborhood kids and wear sweaters in August to marry Michael Douglas?
Is it just me, or is she really cranking them out this week? How many does this make now?
If Jimmy Carter were single Maureen would be a great hook up.
Her new typewriter has an autobitch switch that can crank them out while she knits or empties her gastrobag.
I saw a picture of Dowd this week, and I swear it looked like her face had morphed into Helen Thomas's. It was uncanny she was so butt-ugly.
I like to know what did Michael Douglas seen in Mo DO now I understand why he left her
Can you imagine if you a dude what you coming home to LOL!
Ya lost me maureen... what exactly is this supposed to mean? You were supposed to be a writer weren't you? doesn't that mean you're supposed to be able to communicate ideas?
If the NYT wants to salvage its credibility, it could start by firing this nasty partisan puke. And Frank Rich too.
Douglas is a womanizer anyway... not surprising. Water seeks its own level maybe?
LOL. I service computers for the legal (and other) professional. I always suspected there was such a device.
There is that whole thing about women who spend a lot of time together, getting PMS at the same time.
A real money maker for me, as they all blame the computers.
This woman writes like a gossip columnist. They all write the same. People with a whole lot of moral indignations and just sassy enough to say it out loud.
Columnist without brains, class, decency, or humor. Or anything else worthwhile.
That has decidedly been eroded under W, but he just happened to be president at the right time! The rise of the new media has broken the people from the chains of the MSM's leftist propaganda.
(And he has a good feel for how to feed the pajama clad horde!)
Maureen Dowd----the new Helen Thomas. When does she plan to palck on the extra 150 pounds to match Helen's bulk???
;-)
My very liberal father-in-law sent me a copy of this article this morning. What follows is my reply:
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