We saw the enemy and he is us [Maureen Dowd BARF ALERT]

SF Chronicle ^ | 6-27-02 | Maureen Dowd

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Washington -- A FRIEND of mine over the weekend was recalling her days as an idealistic child of the '60s. Students sitting around the dorm, amid the water bongs, water beds, strobe lights and Che posters, listening to Led Zeppelin and Dylan, dreaming about remaking the world in their own image, trading nightmares about spying Big Brother and soul-robbing corporations.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I detect that our nation is in the early stage of liberal decay.

[RWG]

we can have a democratic society or we can have a concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both...didn't ken lay and martha stewart vote for clinton?

[Jim Noble]

>>I detect that our nation is in the early stage of liberal decay<<

It is somewhat more advanced than that, I'm afraid.

[ventana]

Somehow the sinful synchronicity of business that went unchecked during Clintonia, isn't a problem for her. Too bad back then Janet Reno wasn't making sure the corporate culture was obeying basic accounting principles in a legal manner. She and Rubin probably cheerlead the false bookeeping. Maureen Dowd, she's such a knee pad liberal. Ewwww. V's wife.

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Did it ever occur to the author that perhaps her paranoia was a result of all the weed she was smoking at the time?

[winin2000]

You had to post this during breakfast, didn't you?

Dear God, I believe I'm going to be ill!

[Savage Beast]

Poor Maureen. Every time she sits down to type, she just reconfirms her stupidity.

[Savage Beast]

Poor Maureen. Every time she sits down to type, she just reconfirms her stupidity.

[IronJack]

Read the second paragraph and substitute the present tense for the past, and you'll know exactly why liberals are not fit to govern this country.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Agreed.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Those who came of age in the '60s and lived through the plum decades of the '80s and '90s gave up a long time ago on John Lennon's wish that they could "imagine no possessions . . . no need for greed or hunger in a brotherhood of man."

She does't realize that the only fools who ever believed this were the fools who bought Lennon's albums, giving him enough money to purchase his purple Rolls Royce limosine.

[mattdono]

A FRIEND of mine over the weekend was recalling her days as an idealistic child of the '60s

A FRIEND? Sounds like little Maureen is using her imaginary little friend again. Or, she is just making this "friend" up out of whole cloth just she can assert this pathetic, liberal diatribe...excuse me, I thought of a better word: drivvle.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I have seen the enemy...

...for I have seen Maureen Dowd.

[7thson]

You know, at one time I wished the same thing. No war, no hardships, having peace, everyone getting along. I was about 12 or 13. Then I started growing up. I started seeing that people who wanted to tax the rich and give the money to the poor were extremely wealthy. My time and travels while in the navy led me to see people steal, lie, and cheat for the littlest of cauces. It would be nice if war ceased to exist but it ain't gonna happen. I heard someone say after 9/11 that we gave peace a chance and look where it got us. Now, let's give war a chance.

[Stirner]

"we can have a democratic society or we can have a concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both".

Why? Granted that wealth may buy undue influence at times, is the way to address that problem really to rule out anyone's being extremely wealthy? The chance to have Bill Gates' success motivates not just him, but millions of others who will never get there, but do pretty well nevertheless. I read a few years back about a poll in which people were asked whether they favored a maximum income cap, an upper level on what anyone could make. I was heartened that a large majority rejected the notion. Even poor people said, "I might hit it big, and I don't want to abolish that chance." I wonder if the poll results would be different today.

[scan58]

That's no lie. They're paranoid. Their views in the 60's (when they were teens/very young adults) are congruent with their views today (when they are middle age/senior adults).

"Our young hunches are now becoming mature realities," said Bobby Rush, the Black Panther who became a Chicago congressman.

I wonder if he's still a Panther.
These communist-thinkers are still bratty, rebellious teenagers who've never grown up.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

"And now," she concluded with a rueful smile, "all our worst paranoid nightmares are coming true. We wake up in our 50s and our enemies from the '60s have crept back into power. And we were the empowerers, because we've turned into the same selfish people we thought we were against. We forgot to be suspicious."

The times they ain't a-changin'. The passionate activists from the Age of Aquarius have grown up to be the new Silent Majority.

Sweetheart, did it ever occur to you that the idealistic, spoiled-brat children of the '60s you're waxing nostalgic about grew up and turned into their parents? You're not the silent majority---you're very much the status quo. This galls me. Just like there are more "Vietnam Veterans" today than people in the military during the Vietnam era, there are more "Children of Aquarius" than there were kids alive during the Woodstock years.

Face it, Boomers: you grew up, you got the mortgage and the minivan and all that idealistic BS went right out the window. Nowadays when you're railing against "them," you're railing against those who were right beside you on the paisley colored tarp listening to Hendrix in '69.

[FreeTally]

She does't realize that the only fools who ever believed this were the fools who bought Lennon's albums, giving him enough money to purchase his purple Rolls Royce limosine.

Reminds me of the bumper sticker that says: Wasn't it a millionaire who said "Imagine no possessions"?

[logos]

Apple pan Dowdy has been left in the oven way too long. She has become a parody of herself, as impossible as that might sound. I don't know why I even read her drivel.

However, she did get one thing right this time. She IS part of the problem.

[Brian Allen]

A friend .... was recalling .... sitting around the dorm, amid the water bongs, water beds, strobe lights and Che posters, listening to Led Zeppelin and Dylan, dreaming about remaking the world in his own image ....

Well.

Congratulations Dowdy one -- you long-haired, maggot-infested, pot-smoking fascist bastards pulled that off!