He's got something she and Hillary don't.
And, of course, there are rules...
Posted on 02/14/2007 10:23:27 AM PST by .cnI redruM
The New York Times seems to have found a new way to conspire against the Right Wing Blogsphere. They have discovered that Maureen Dowd’s most pathetic opinion columns always eat more bandwidth at sites like Freerepublic.com. Not with Maureen’s words of wisdom, but instead, with the derisive Jpegs of Catherine Zeta Jones-Douglass.
Today, Parvada on The Hudson scores a Daily Double. Today they have brought out the Zeta-Douglas eye candy that will paper over Conservative Blogostan. And furthermore, moderate voters will actually feel enough sympathy for Barack Oprahbama that they will might become inclined to take the man more seriously than a Muppet skit.
Today she offered the world her analytical brilliance. Her column 'HE LOOKED AS IF HE NEEDED A SMOKE AND HE NEEDED IT BAD' should be compared to Roseanne Barr's eloquence in addressing the personal shortcomings of Donald Trump. Perhaps Maureen could learn to have a little more class from the process.
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."
So how does any of this matter compared to the fact that this man has no clue what to do if he were actually in charge of the world’s foremost superpower? It doesn’t.
Like a certain Welsh diva that Maureen would rather not meet on the cocktail circuit, what Barack does with his wedding band is strictly between him and his marital partner. As Maureen’s analyst no doubt tells her. “Please Maureen, stick with the issues.”
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."
Poor Abe Lincoln. His venerable legacy doesn’t belong in a Maureen Dowd column. Then again, Anna Nicole Smith’s venerable legacy doesn’t belong in a Maureen Dowd column. Maureen frikkin’ Dowd shouldn’t be writing a column that gets published outside Mother Jones or The Weekly World News.
Dowd describes Obama as a "tad testy" as he was "traipsing around desolate stretches of snowy -- and extremely white -- Iowa."
Poor Iowans. In Maureen’s opinion, they just can’t jump. What matters here isn’t Barck’s connection, or lack thereof, with the typical liberal Democrat Ethanol Farmer.
Again, if Barack Oprahbama has something to say that actually has substance or meat to it, I might not care if he happens to be testy. Sometimes smart people can be p*$$ed off for a good reason. If Barack would ever make an intelligent, non-poll-approved comment on anything, I couldn’t enjoy calling him Barack Oprahbama anymore.
Obama had "moments of looking conflicted."
I’m sure George W. Bush has moments of looking conflicted every time he wastes half an hour reading a column by Maureen Dowd. He muses. “Option A. Choke this moronic twit. End her existence as a Greenhouse Gas Emitting Harlot. Nope, like papa used to say. ‘Wouldn’t be prudent. We’d only have 999 points of light.’”
Dowd snaps: "He poses for the cover of MEN'S VOGUE and then gets huffy when people don't treat him as Hannah Arendt."
She might even have a point here. I don’t call the man Barack Oprahbama for nothing. He’s the only element known to modern chemists that is more lightweight than Hydrogen, Helium or a John Edwards campaign platform.
Perhaps Maureen has a right to be somewhat peeved that Barack Oprahbama skillfully defies logical gravity. He offers nothing of substance that wouldn’t float the Hindenburg, and yet he still has a shot at the presidency.
Maureen needs to gaze into the mirror and face unpleasant facts, before she gripes about the unbearable lightness of being Barack Oprahbama. It’s not like Pravda on The Hudson is expecting much economic firepower out of Paul Krugman.
Maureen Dowd has a point about the overall lack of good people in public life. I doubt Socrates would get tenure at Harvard, given his white, European maleness, and the state of current American academia.
She misses the grander point. Good people are not just absent from public service, they are fleeing. They flee not just the cheapness; they flee its tawdriness as well. It doesn’t get much more tawdry than Maureen Dowd. Oops, there went my bandwidth.
Said the woman who ignored Clinton's problems with his wedding band.
Now why would you make a nasty comment like that without supporting detail?
LMAO!
He's got something she and Hillary don't.
And, of course, there are rules...
Maureen, of course, relies on her screwball.
That's an early one, before she had some of her cosmetic surgery.
Well, I think I may change my Christmas wish list...
Damn...you're right! Her nose does look different!
That is an excellent research page!
Would love to see that run on the front page of the NY Slime.
Perhaps, Braves Fans, that's why Michael Douglass made the Bell South, Call to the Bullpen!
Q: Know what the difference is between a unicorn and CZJ?
A: I don't have a unicorn in my bedroom right now.
(I know, I know, what am I doing at the computer then? Well, I just came down to get a snack and check in with FR. Crazy. I know. :) )
When Hillary trots out Bill Clinton every now and then over the course of her campaign, what will Bill look like and will he look like he needed it badly?
I think the author is confused and meant ROsie O'dOughnut.
Like he's had something smoked and needed it badly.
And the Maureen Dowds and NYTs of this nation are almost solely responsible for that. No sane person would subject themselves to the American press.
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