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“Holy crap! It’s really is huge.” Judith Warner, a journalist and contributor to The New York Times blog “Domestic Disturbances,” shared her and her friends’ fantasies about having illicit sex with President Barack Obama and becoming members of “Hyde Park high society” in her column last Thursday. You’d think a respected journalist who blogs for “all the news that’s fit to print” would find something better to write about besides Obama’s sexy purple lips suckling her friend’s va j-j. The entire article was prolific with Warner’s Liberal sexual fantasies and her dream of being the next presidential conquest. Like many...

I spent the past week in New York, helping my mother recover from surgery. It was a new role for me, taking care of my mom. It must, I think, have been somewhat destabilizing. Perhaps when previously untapped wells of care-for-others are accessed, there’s no stopping the flow. Or perhaps it was just that, after five days locked in stare-downs with my mother’s cat, my eyes were playing tricks on me. This may explain why, on Tuesday afternoon when I went to The Times Web site and saw the photo of Sarah Palin with Henry Kissinger, a funny thing happened....

“You can stand on my wagon, if you want.” I tend, when I’m not in big crowds, to forget that I’m short. In Republican crowds, I find, I feel particularly small. And dark. And unsmiling. And uncoiffed, unmade-up and inappropriately dressed. For the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax, Va., on Wednesday, the organizers had asked people to wear red. I – unthinkingly – had dressed in blue, which was somewhat isolating. I was isolated, too, because, unable to find the press area in the crowd of about 15,000, I was out with the “real” people. Which meant that I could hear...

If any pundit should celebrate Sarah Palin, you might think it would be Judith Warner. The author of "Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety" is the Times' resident expert on the challenges women face in balancing career and family. But think again. Politics trumps female solidarity. Warner's column on Palin is perhaps the most vitriolic and condescending I've read. The Mirrored Ceiling is a few days old, but Warner's fury still rings fresh. Excerpts [emphasis added]: * It turns out there was something more nauseating than the nomination of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate this past week. It...

Just one paragraph tucked toward the end of a column. But Judith Warner's words offer a revealing insight into how liberals view economics and the world. In the lefty mindset, making it isn't a matter of doing or making something of value. It comes down instead to contriving to get a piece of the action, a share of the wealth that some undefined other has created in some undescribed way. The gist of Warner's column, Compassion Deficit Disorder, is that Americans have become increasingly cranky and suspicious of how others are gaming the system. She cites Michael Savage's accusations that...

Bush hatred has taken on a new, virulent mutation: animus towards First Lady Laura Bush. Witness today's New York Times column by Judith Warner, ‘24’ as Reality Show [subscripton required]. Warner's jumping off point is Kiefer Sutherland's response to a question about the advent in this coming season's "24" of a woman president. Observed the actor who plays Jack Bauer: “I can tell you one thing. We had the first African-American president on television, and now Barack Obama is a serious candidate. That wasn’t going to happen eight years ago. Television is an incredibly powerful medium, and it can be...

by Mark Finkelstein September 29, 2006 - 06:54 Rejection is painful. Spurned suitors often-if-contradictorily condemn the very object of their affection, while reserving a good measure of bile for their successful rivals. Democrats have suffered a lot unrequited political desire in recent years, and the strain is really starting to show. We all know about Bush Derangement Syndrome. Yesterday I described a new strain, Gas Price Derangement Syndrome, and mentioned an even more insidious disease afflicting many on the left - Controlled Demolition Dementia. Today comes more evidence of the left's painful struggle to deal with its diminished standing and...

In an old "ThirtySomething" show, one mother observes to another, "we obsess about our kids -- our husbands obsess about their jobs." Bang on right. Only we women not only obsess about our kids -- we obsess about ourselves too. Are we fulfilled? Are we happy? Do we like ourselves? Our bodies? Our relationships? So it is with Judith Warner's hot new book, "Perfect Madness: Mothering in the Age of Anxiety" (Riverhead Books), which has the tone of, "I am woman why isn't my world all about me?" Warner tries to tap into the "boiling resentment" of at-home moms who...