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Dowd DESTROYS the Boy in the Bubble

by Paolo

Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:00:38 PM PDT

That vacation did Maureen good...

This president is in a truly scary place in Iraq. Americans can't get out, or they risk turning the country into a terrorist haven that will make the old Afghanistan look like Cipriani's. Yet his war, which has not accomplished any of its purposes, swallows ever more American lives and inflames ever more Muslim hearts as W. reads a book about the history of salt and looks forward to his biking date with Lance Armstrong on Saturday.

A bit more below but just read it:
http://nytimes.com/2005/08/17/opinion/17dowd.html

Paolo's diary :: ::

The son wanted to go into Iraq to best his daddy in the history books, by finishing what Bush senior started. He swept aside the warnings of Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell and didn't bother to ask his father's advice. Now he is caught in the very trap his father said that he feared: that America would get bogged down as "an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land," facing a possibly "barren" outcome.

Maureen, all is forgiven! (The occasional sarcasm, self-indulgence, etc etc.)

How about Krugman, Dowd, Rich, and Herbert escape that sinking ship and start a paper of their own?

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Not MoDo (4.00 / 4)

She is basically a nihilist - her impulse is to attack whomever is in power. Just because I happen to agree with her sentiments right now doesn't change the fact that she was a major figure in prolonging the ludicrous folly that was the l'affaire Lewinsky.

by astralagos on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:02:34 PM PDT
- Just last year (4.00 / 3)
  
  the same Maureen Dowd pushed Kerry's NASCAR "quote", and ridiculed his goose hunting just a week before the election. And she went after Gore with glee not only in 1999-2000, but also later. That was too low and too recently to forgive easily.
  
  by ray z on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:23:09 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Going after those in power is good (none / 0)
    
    I wish more journalists had her ovaries.
    Speak the truth and shame the devil. No matter what party the devil is in.
    Go Dowd!
    
    "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
    
    by greendem on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 11:10:48 PM PDT
    
    [ Parent ]
    - I wish she had Sy Hersh's heart (none / 0)
      
      and just about any other journalist's brain
      she's got courage though, if she can still show her face in public
      and now, two tears and 1850 dead soldiers later, she suddenly figures out that george has an edipal complex, wow, fucking brilliant, I knew that in 2001
      with the thoughts that she'd be thinkin, she could be another Lincoln, if she only had a brain
      
      by knowthings on Wed Aug 17, 2005 at 01:02:58 AM PDT
      
      [ Parent ]
Salt?? (4.00 / 3)

He's reading a book about salt? What, he found a word he could sound out?

by sharman on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:07:32 PM PDT
- A book?? (4.00 / 3)
  
  He's reading a book?
  He must be in shape... he's undergoing a lip marathon.
  
  Hanoi didn't break John McCain, but Washington did.
  
  by Dallasdoc on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:13:34 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
  - I'll bet it's on tape. (none / 1)
    
    and he listens to it right before naptime
    
    CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. A. Bierce
    
    by irate on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:31:39 PM PDT
    
    [ Parent ]
  - Pictures (none / 1)
    
    I think there are lots of pictures. Pictures of salt and salt shakers and pillars of salt and Salt Lake and....
    
    by helix on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:48:48 PM PDT
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Bring on the crayons! (none / 1)
      
      Hanoi didn't break John McCain, but Washington did.
      
      by Dallasdoc on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:56:38 PM PDT
      
      [ Parent ]
      - Do you think (none / 1)
        
        that Chimpy can color inside the lines? I'll bet he needs Bab's help.
        
        by helix on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:04:02 PM PDT
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        I don't think... (none / 1)
        
        ... he can color without tearing up the pages. Do you?
        
        Hanoi didn't break John McCain, but Washington did.
        
        by Dallasdoc on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:04:56 PM PDT
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        Tear up (none / 1)
        
        pages, tear up countries. Heck, what's the difference? So long as he's having fun.
        
        by helix on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:10:53 PM PDT
        
        [ Parent ]
  - Like Jon Stuart says... (none / 0)
    
    How did that happen? Reading?
    
    They had fangs...they were drinking blood....They had this look in their eyes, totally animal. I think they were young Republicans. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
    
    by wrights on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:56:15 PM PDT
    
    [ Parent ]
- Dowd was a journalist first... (4.00 / 3)
  
  ...and this piece marks a stylistic return to that early sober style. I think she writes a devastating description of father and son here. This is a very strong column from a political point of view, and goes far beyond any of the wild fun she had at Clinton's expense.
  
  by QuickSilver on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:15:42 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
- Salt - to Ghandi (none / 1)
  
  I wonder if he'll read the history of Salt all the way to Ghandi - prolly not ... he'll fall asleep.
  
  by ZappoDave on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:26:58 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
- He probably picked it out... (none / 0)
  
  ....thinking it was a history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
  
  by sagesource on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:36:39 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
  - I Doubt (4.00 / 2)
    
    if he would read a book about strategery. The book is probably called "Salt: the Key to a Perfect Margarita."
    
    by vickyny on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:45:01 PM PDT
    
    [ Parent ]
- probably this book (none / 0)
  
  http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0802713734
  I doubt that he's even reading it. He probably wouldn't even like the books-on-tape version.
  
  by mimi9 on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:24:23 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
- It's actually a good book.... (none / 0)
  
  by Marc Kurlansky
  
  "Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." -- Adlai E. Stevenson
  
  by eebee on Wed Aug 17, 2005 at 03:31:01 AM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
I have dissed her repeatedly (4.00 / 2)

but I admit this one was good.

"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed." General Buck Turgidson

by muledriver on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:14:13 PM PDT
- She pisses me off sometimes, too (none / 0)
  
  and I sent her email once about a snarky article she did on Judy Dean. But, I really loved her series on the Boy Emperor. Those were terrific...and when she's hot, like this article, she's hot!
  
  McSame, John McCain, just like Bush.
  
  by Sally in SF on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:55:11 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
This is my favorite quote from the article (4.00 / 2)

*
They had better start absorbing and shedding a lot faster, before many more American kids die to create a pawn of Iran.
And they had better tell the Boy in the Bubble, who continues to dwell in delusion, hailing the fights and delays on the Iraqi constitution as "a tribute to democracy."
*

"Proud to proclaim: I am a Bleeding Heart Liberal"

by sara seattle on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:15:20 PM PDT
Great idea! (none / 0)

Wow, wouldn't that be fantastic? And they could publish other respectible, well versed writers that haven't sold their souls to the devil, er the MSM...

McSame, John McCain, just like Bush.

by Sally in SF on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:51:15 PM PDT
Not on a vacation (none / 1)

She was off writing a book; also might have been personal time - her mother died a few weeks ago.

by seanflynn on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:06:21 PM PDT
Dowd (4.00 / 3)

I have nothing but contempt for Maureen Dowd. It is all a game to her. Hillary's hairdo, the war, all the same. She treats trivial and the serious with the same flippant attitude.
People like Dowd helped put Bush in the WH by trivializing issues.

by Miri on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:07:44 PM PDT
- Maureen (none / 0)
  
  writes editorials. Damn good ones. I enjoy the irony with which she approaches the absurdity of our political situation. You can't do what she does and not acquire a healthy sense of humor about it. It's all so absurd. Hillary is absurd. Hillary's hair is absurd. And so is Bush's War. All absurd...
  I think her style is effective. I quite enjoy it as well.
  
  Buy Democracy Bonds or Justice sleeps with the fishes.
  
  by Don Quixotic on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 11:13:09 PM PDT
  
  [ Parent ]
He isn't reading anything (none / 0)

he doesn't read books; he admitted as such in the famous Tweety interview. The book list is standard silly-season boilerplate, put together by some aide.
They publish his daily schedule--- show me where there is time for reading. They even schedule his naps for grief's sake.

Buy my book! The Servant of the Manthycore by Michael Ehart, foreword by Michael Moorcock http://www.mehart.blogspot.com/

by IsraelHand on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:50:28 PM PDT
Dowd and Krugman (none / 0)

should start their own freakin paper...
Who needs the Times? What a rag...

Buy Democracy Bonds or Justice sleeps with the fishes.

by Don Quixotic on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 11:10:29 PM PDT
So basically... (none / 0)

Don't Mess With ~~Texas~~ My Golf Game!

"The way the loser loses will determine whether the winner wins in November." -- Rahm Emanuel

by Newsie8200 on Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 11:58:31 PM PDT
it's a great column (none / 0)

but the best line comes at the very end: "Thomas L. Friedman is on vacation"
Man, that's a glorious sentence.

I want to win. You want to beat him, and that's a problem for me, because I want to win. -The West Wing

by AnnArborBlue on Wed Aug 17, 2005 at 12:48:00 AM PDT

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Dowd DESTROYS the Boy in the Bubble

by Paolo

Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:00:38 PM PDT

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Not MoDo (4.00 / 4)

Just last year (4.00 / 3)

Going after those in power is good (none / 0)

I wish she had Sy Hersh's heart (none / 0)

Salt?? (4.00 / 3)

A book?? (4.00 / 3)

I'll bet it's on tape. (none / 1)

Pictures (none / 1)

Bring on the crayons! (none / 1)

Do you think (none / 1)

I don't think... (none / 1)

Tear up (none / 1)

Like Jon Stuart says... (none / 0)

Dowd was a journalist first... (4.00 / 3)

Salt - to Ghandi (none / 1)

He probably picked it out... (none / 0)

I Doubt (4.00 / 2)

probably this book (none / 0)

It's actually a good book.... (none / 0)

I have dissed her repeatedly (4.00 / 2)

She pisses me off sometimes, too (none / 0)

This is my favorite quote from the article (4.00 / 2)

Great idea! (none / 0)

Not on a vacation (none / 1)

Dowd (4.00 / 3)

Maureen (none / 0)

He isn't reading anything (none / 0)

Dowd and Krugman (none / 0)

So basically... (none / 0)

it's a great column (none / 0)

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