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Reformer Without Results (Dowd alert)
NY Times ^ | 8/13/05 | Maureen Dowd

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."

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: dowd; zetajones

1 posted on 08/12/2005 10:08:46 PM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham
Women in jeans in America may have their rights eroded

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?

2 posted on 08/12/2005 10:12:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

Is it just me, or is she really cranking them out this week? How many does this make now?


3 posted on 08/12/2005 10:13:22 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Crackingham

If Jimmy Carter were single Maureen would be a great hook up.


4 posted on 08/12/2005 10:15:44 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Howlin

Her new typewriter has an autobitch switch that can crank them out while she knits or empties her gastrobag.


5 posted on 08/12/2005 10:16:11 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Crackingham
[effort to salvage America's horrendous image in the Islamic world]


To the Muslims around the world who condemn terrorism and who support democracy, the image of the United States is JUST FINE.

To the Jihadists who support terrorism and who want to subjugate all Muslims to their theocracy (and kill all the non Muslims around the world) I don't give a f*** what our image is as long as they are afraid of it.
6 posted on 08/12/2005 10:16:26 PM PDT by spinestein (The facts fairly and honestly presented, truth will take care of itself.)
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To: dead; Crackingham; Howlin; All

“The right to wear blue jeans shall not be infringed.”

7 posted on 08/12/2005 10:20:00 PM PDT by dighton
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To: dead; Howlin

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.


8 posted on 08/12/2005 10:28:21 PM PDT by holyscroller (A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
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To: Crackingham; All

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!


9 posted on 08/12/2005 10:29:28 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Crackingham
Women in jeans in America may have their rights eroded by an administration where faith trumps science

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?

10 posted on 08/12/2005 10:35:16 PM PDT by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: Crackingham

If the NYT wants to salvage its credibility, it could start by firing this nasty partisan puke. And Frank Rich too.


11 posted on 08/12/2005 10:35:25 PM PDT by Tom_Busch (I'm a victim of Rovian mind control.)
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To: SevenofNine
I like to know what did Michael Douglas seen in Mo DO now I understand why he left her

Douglas is a womanizer anyway... not surprising. Water seeks its own level maybe?

12 posted on 08/12/2005 10:36:14 PM PDT by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: dead
autobitch switch

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.

13 posted on 08/12/2005 11:07:31 PM PDT by benjaminjjones
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To: Crackingham

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.


14 posted on 08/12/2005 11:58:12 PM PDT by eric_da_grate
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To: everyone

Columnist without brains, class, decency, or humor. Or anything else worthwhile.


15 posted on 08/13/2005 12:52:15 AM PDT by California Patriot
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To: dead
The only eroded right I can think of is the former ability of the MSM (Modo included) to hoodwink the entire nation.

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!)

16 posted on 08/13/2005 2:08:39 AM PDT by twntaipan (EU: The Eurabian Union?)
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To: Crackingham

Maureen Dowd----the new Helen Thomas. When does she plan to palck on the extra 150 pounds to match Helen's bulk???


17 posted on 08/13/2005 3:01:35 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: dead
Keyboard spew alert please, next time.

;-)

18 posted on 08/13/2005 5:32:07 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Crackingham

My very liberal father-in-law sent me a copy of this article this morning. What follows is my reply:




Well, gee whiz, we better let that nice Mr. Saddam out of prison and put him back in charge since women, well, those who weren't raped, tortured, or in some other way heniously killed, were so much better off when he was in charge.

And we should have never gone after that nice Mr Hitler either. If only he hadn't invaded Poland! He was just killing those money-grubbing joooos and the pesky gypsies. We all know how annoying those gypsies are!! And, that nice Mr. Hitler was a vegetarian and hated smoking. Think of all those Germans who wouldn't have been smokers and wouldn't have died of lung cancer if we hadn't gone after such a health concious hero!!

Okay, basically, reality bites.

Removing one evil does not suddenly remove all evil from the universe. When people are given freedom, they might not do noble things. They may do things that we don't like. They might do things that are evil.

Are you saying that, because we may not agree with what the Iraqi's are doing, that they are not entitled to the God given right of free choice??


19 posted on 08/13/2005 8:27:13 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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