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Maureen Dowd Rips Obama: 'He Looked as if He Needed a Smoke and He Needed it Bad'
Drudge Report ^ | February 13, 2007

Posted on 02/13/2007 7:41:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

NY TIMES edit queen Maureen Dowd unloads on Barack Obama in her Wednesday filing.

On the trail in Iowa, Dowd writes: "Obama's so slender his wedding band looked as if it was slipping off... there was a wariness in his dark eyes."

When a reporter asked him Obama whether he'd had a heater in his podium during his announcement speech in subzero Springfield, Obama hesitated.

Dowd slings: "He shot a look that said, 'Are you from PEOPLE magazine?' before conceding that, unlike Abe Lincoln, he'd had a heater."

Dowd describes Obama as a "tad testy" as he was "traipsing around desolate stretches of snowy -- and extremely white -- Iowa."

Obama had "moments of looking conflicted."

Dowd claims that no fewer than three times last week, Obama got indignant about the beach-babe attention given to a shot of him in the Hawaiian surf.

"You've been reporting on how I look in a swimsuit," Obama lectured a reporter.

Dowd snaps: "He poses for the cover of MEN'S VOGUE and then gets huffy when people don't treat him as Hannah Arendt."

Developing...


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1 posted on 02/13/2007 7:41:39 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

She still writes?


2 posted on 02/13/2007 7:42:23 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I wonder if carrying all that water for Hillary will improve MoDo's posture. And, yes, where are the pictures?


3 posted on 02/13/2007 7:43:13 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I don't read MoDo. Would I be correct in assuming that she's solidly behind Hillary?


4 posted on 02/13/2007 7:44:12 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: West Coast Conservative

5 posted on 02/13/2007 7:44:54 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
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6 posted on 02/13/2007 7:45:21 PM PST by TommyDale (Who do you trust? An ex-mayor? Or the ranking member of the House Committee on Armed Services?)
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7 posted on 02/13/2007 7:45:46 PM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: neodad

That observation is a bit much coming from someone who usually looks like she needs a drink...bad.


8 posted on 02/13/2007 7:46:00 PM PST by mkmensinger
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To: West Coast Conservative

Hannah Arendt? Of all the people she could have used for that reference, she picks THAT one???


10 posted on 02/13/2007 7:46:33 PM PST by Hildy (RUDY IN 2008)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Translaton: Dowd says Hillary '08


12 posted on 02/13/2007 7:50:08 PM PST by Enosh (†)
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To: West Coast Conservative

i bet she is pimping for the beast


13 posted on 02/13/2007 7:50:32 PM PST by camas
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To: neodad

"She still writes?"

Yeah, if you can call it that. They fired Judith Miller and kept her.


14 posted on 02/13/2007 7:51:08 PM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
MoDo Foe...


15 posted on 02/13/2007 7:52:35 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: mkmensinger

They need to cut Osama Obama a little slack. He probably took up smoking to get himself off cocaine.


16 posted on 02/13/2007 7:52:56 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Obama had "moments of looking conflicted."

God forbid.


17 posted on 02/13/2007 7:53:55 PM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: prairiebreeze; Mo1; areafiftyone; PhiKapMom; BunnySlippers; Wait4Truth

For a laugh about the lighter side of the news today...


18 posted on 02/13/2007 7:55:35 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: rrc
im a reagan conservative, but i would do maureen dowd in a ny minute while she is wearing those heels...

Bring anti-venom for rattlesnakes.

19 posted on 02/13/2007 7:56:11 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: camas

"I bet she is pimping for the beast"

Any stick to beat a dog, they say - although it might be better reversed in this case.


20 posted on 02/13/2007 7:56:29 PM PST by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval.")
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