Posted on 04/21/2007 5:23:01 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...Americans have revered such homely leaders as Abe Lincoln. They seem open to balding pates like Rudy’s and flattops like Jon Tester’s. They don’t want self-confidence to look like self-love.[If this is original with Dowd, it is a very good summary of human nature]...
...Someone who aspires to talk credibly about the two Americas can’t lavish on his locks what working families may spend on electricity in a year. You can’t sell earnestness while indulging in decadence.
Mr. Edwards, the son of a mill worker, moved from a $5.2 million, six-bedroom Federal mansion in Georgetown to a 28,000-square-foot behemoth in North Carolina with a basketball court, a squash court, two stages and a swimming pool.
His 25-year-old daughter, Cate, a former editorial assistant for Vanity Fair, co-founded Urbanista, an online Rolodex that dispenses advice for “hip” girls in Manhattan, offering to be a “bestie” (a best friend) and answer questions like “Where should I go to get my Marc Jacobs shoes reheeled?” and “Does anyone know the best place to get a really great haircut?” One salon the site recommends is Warren-Tricomi, where Edward Tricomi says haircuts range from $121 to $300.
The cost of grooming hair is peanuts compared with the cost of grooming an image. Hillary is paying a fortune to try to buy the secrets of likability. Her financial reports for the first three months of 2007 show debts to consulting firms of $447,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at select.nytimes.com ...
What is with Rudy in dress. Is that an established fact or what?
An election between the two of them would be funny, if also tragic. But I wonder which one would look best on the cover of Cosmopolitan?
You think Edwards only has his hair cut 2 times a year? Try twice monthly at 400 bucks a pop.
You know—that was really the first thing that I thought: Who can get by on $800 of electricity per year? Where do they live? What do they live in?
Frankly, it was a gag, and not all that outrageous in New York City, but it does not play well everywhere else.
Wow, that is such a NAUGHTY picture of CZJ.
Watch me.
Cynicism doesn't require talent.
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Ouch! Remind me never to piss you off.
Apparently, Michael Douglas disagrees with you.
Anyway, don't mind me, I only come to MoDo's threads for the pictures...
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She can moonlight at MY house - ANYTIME she wants!!
I think MoDo spends as much time airbrushing the wrinkles out her picture as Edwards does on his hair.
Maureen Dowd is also an extremely unattractive person. It's not so much because she's all that ugly in a physical sense.
At first glance some would say she's moderately attractive in an uptight, NY, she'd rather suck a thousand lemons than a single ****, too hip for the room-any room sort of a way.
It's her attitude that makes her ugly. Some people become more physically attractive the more you talk to or read them.
Maureen Dowd is the exact opposite. What little marginal beauty she does happen to possess fades away like the picture of Dorian Gray the longer you listen to her prattle on and on and on with that condescending attitude of hers.
After about 10 minutes of listening to her speak she drops so far out of the "I'd Hit It" pool she couldn't get laid in an SIU frat house during a kegger.
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LOL!
She’s a handsome woman..
"...Someone who aspires to talk credibly about the two Americas can’t lavish on his locks what working families may spend on electricity in a year. You can’t sell earnestness while indulging in decadence."Uh...I don't know how to tell you this, Maureen, but Democrat politicians have perfected exactly this to a fine art...
Remember Bubba's haircut? He's more popular than ever.
Remember how the Kennedys fought the offshore windmills at their Massachusetts compound? They're considered great givebackers.
Remember how gingerly Al Gore danced around questions concerning environmental pollution at his Tennessee mansion? They gave him the Academy Award and nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. (Well, to dance so gingerly at his weight, he should receive some kind of prize.)
And speaking of decadence, welcome to the Post-Enlightenment! Decadence is what it is! Don't expect truth, logic, justice, or fair play.
By the way--I know this is changing the subject but--is Barbra still hanging her laundry out on the clothesline?
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