Dowd finally gets it....

[Aviation Pro]

...about fucking time.

Link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/opinion/06dowd.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

McCain’s Green-Eyed Monster
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON

Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering J.F.K., has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy.

Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson and John Edwards have all been crazed with envy over the ascendance of the new “It” guy, Barack Obama.

Unlike his wife, Bill Clinton — the master of fake sincerity — still continues to openly begrudge his party’s betrothed.

Asked by Kate Snow of ABC News in Africa whether Obama was ready to be president, Clinton gave a classic Clintonian answer: “You could argue that no one’s ever ready to be president.”

As always, the Big Dog was more concerned with himself — asserting that he’s not a racist — than his party. Bill Clinton is not a racist. We can posit that. But he did play subtle racial politics in the primary. It’s way past time for him to accept the fact that there’s a new wunderkind in town.

Just as Bill Clinton looks at Obama and sees his own oblivion, so does Jesse Jackson. As Shelby Steele wrote in The Wall Street Journal, Jackson and his generation of civil rights leaders “made keeping whites ‘on the hook’ the most sacred article of the post-’60s black identity,” equality pursued by manipulating white guilt.

Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation for why a man who prides himself on honor, a man who vowed not to take the low road in the campaign, having been mugged by W. and Rove in South Carolina in 2000, is engaging in a festival of juvenilia.

[FrenchieCat]

1. The part about McCain in that article is better than the part you have posted.

[Egnever]

7. She eviscerates him

“Now somebody else is the celebrity,” the colleague continued, while John looks in the mirror and sees his face marred by skin cancer and looks at the TV and sees his dashing self-image replaced by visions of William Frawley, with Letterman jokes about his membership in the ham radio club and adventures with wagon trains."

Ouch!

[Number23]

12. No, no... THIS is the good part!

Obama wrote his own books, while McCain’s were written by Salter. McCain knows he’s the affirmative action scion of admirals who might not have gotten through Annapolis without being a legacy. Obama didn’t even tell Harvard Law School that he was black on his application.

So it turns out the WHITE guy running for president is the recipient of affirmative action?????!!?! Holy crap!! :bounce:

I absolutely LOVE that.

[Frances]

2. It does Obama no good for his supporters to diss either Clinton

We need the votes of Clinton Dems.

Plus Obama will win because he draws people in rather than shutting them out.

Just look at how he handled the people trying to interrupt his town halls. He is a true leader.

[karynnj]

15. I agree if it is gratuitous, but commenting on current things Bill Clinton is doing

is reasonable. Maureen Dowd does go over board - but if she didn't she wouldn't be Maureen Dowd - which is why I hate her columns.

It is right to have concern when he chooses the week that McCain's attack is to accuse Obama of "playing the race card" to validate that by basically saying it happened tohim too.

[mopinko]

22. clinton does not own them.

just sayin'

[Hekate]

3. Why MoDo! I didn't know you had it in you! More...

> McCain could dismiss W. as a lightweight, but he knows Obama’s smart. Obama wrote his own books, while McCain’s were written by Salter. McCain knows he’s the affirmative action scion of admirals who might not have gotten through Annapolis without being a legacy. Obama didn’t even tell Harvard Law School that he was black on his application.
>
> McCain upbraids Obama for being a poppet, while he’s becoming a puppet. His mouth is moving but the words coming out belong to his new hard-boiled strategist, Steve Schmidt, a Rove protégé, nicknamed “The Bullet” for his bald pate.
>
> Schmidt has turned Mr. Straight Talk into Mr. Desperate Straits. It’s not a good trade.

:rofl:

Obama's comments about her "snazzy boots" seem to have had a positive effect.

Hekate

[Egnever]

8. Snazzy boots?

I missed that one, do tell.

[Hekate]

9. I read that she went on the Obama World Tour with the rest of the media...

... and that at one point he leaned over to MoDo and complimented her "snazzy" boots.

Sorry I don't have a linky to the original article, but I read it here. The author of the article seemed to think he had successfully buttered up the Queen Bee. :rofl: I do hope so. She can be vicious.

Hekate

[Egnever]

10. lol thats great if true

She was pretty rough on mcsame in that article to be sure.

[Colobo]

4. I agree with Dowd 100% on her assessments of Bill, Jesse and McShit.

[scheming daemons]

5. Dowd is right on. She has Bubba, Jesse, and McDickhead pegged completely.

Some here don't want to see it.

[Egnever]

6. Obama didn’t even tell Harvard Law School that he was black on his application.

Pretty cool I wasnt aware of that.

Maureen really was harsh with John in this article.

[flpoljunkie]

14. Bet 'Morning Jerk' won't mention that part of Mo Dowd's column!

[Diamonique]

16. Actually, the dissing of McCain is the part they of the article they presenred on Morning Joe.

n/t

[Vinca]

17. Not telling Harvard he was black really jumped out at me since

there is a potential talking point du jour out there about affirmative action. From what the right has put forward so far, they have pimped the message that Obama was a recipient of it. Apparently not.

[janet118]

24. Careful about using MoDo as a source . . .

Her bit of info about Obama's law school application may or may not be true.

Former classmates say Obama chose not to mention his race in his application to Harvard Law School to avoid benefiting from affirmative action, an assertion that his campaign declined to confirm or deny.

"His work was with those who didn't have much, and they were black, Hispanic and white," said Gerald Kellman, who hired Obama to help organize poor families in Chicago. "He never had much inclination to use affirmative action as a tool then. He wanted to level the playing field by providing early childhood education programs, access to good schools."

International Herald Tribune

[RNdaSilva]

11. "Now John McCain is pea-green with envy.

That’s the only explanation for why a man who prides himself on honor, a man who vowed not to take the low road in the campaign, having been mugged by W. and Rove in South Carolina in 2000, is engaging in a festival of juvenilia."

"A festival of juvenilia." Hits the proverbial nail on the head.

[VolcanoJen]

13. Maureen Dowd? Seriously?

All I see is a catty bitch looking to square-peg an election, and poorly. Same as it ever was. McCain's mom is "magical," and Bill Clinton is "the master of fake sincerity"? She phoned it in again. She's mastered paint-by-numbers journamalism.

She's poisonous. Next week she'll be making up Jane Austen-esque nicknames for Michelle Obama. How MoDo continues to rule the most valuable print real estate in the world amazes me.

[janet118]

19. Please don't use . . .

the word "journalism" in the same sentence as "Dowd" unless it's to say, "Maureen Dowd is to journalism as a whoopie pie is to whole grain bread."

[Supersedeas]

26. like a "tay" in the wind -- for Dowd, it depends on which way her meds blow

[rox63]

18. OMG - A MoDo column I can actually agree with?

:wow:

[Olney Blue]

20. Ha- my reaction too!

[Orsino]

21. No, she doesn't.

Edwards "crazed with envy?" Spare me. Dowd is simply filling inches with her unclever one-dimensional snipes.

Dowd doesn't "get it," but even she can smell a faint whiff of it atop her tower of money.

[Coexist]

23. “John’s eaten up with envy,” “His image of himself was always the handsome, celebrity flyboy."

Ha! Its simple penis envy. Holy shit, McCain is hearing himself described as an old coot and its eating him alive...

.... and then Paris described him as the wrinkly old white guy...

ROFL!

[DevonRex]

30. Ick. He wasn't even handsome back in the 70s. And he always

had that awful high pitched voice. And now it's a quavering high pitched voice. Shudder.

[liam_laddie]

25. McLame's handlers better place the bubble around him

soon, else his reading the massive amount of negative press about him, for every stumbling, stoopid statement, might really send him over the edge; he's damn close to it now. The bubble keeps bush from dealing with reality; serves him very well...heh.
:hide:

[jazzjunkysue]

27. It's her whiny, talking-in-the-nose voice that really irritates me. Take a damn breath!

And I think she does it to appear superior to it all.

She wasts to trade in gossip while appearing to be above gossip.

Even in print, I can't read her without hearing her whine. Honestly, I would have been slapped at 7 years old for that. Who let her learn to talk like that?

[barack the house]

28. Has to be said she has had some of the best articles this elections cycle.

[applegrove]

29. Excellent column. Thanks for posting.