Maureen Down NY Times OpEd: Wake-Up Call for Hillary

[VenusRising]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/opinion/02dowd.html?_r=1&ex=1362114000&en=3cf64fce4d1ecd79&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Op-Ed Columnist
A Wake-Up Call for Hillary
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: March 2, 2008

SAN ANTONIO

Channeling her inner Cheney, Hillary Clinton dropped a fear bomb, as Michelle Obama might call it, implying in a new ad that if her opponent is elected, your angelic, innocent, sleeping children could die in a terrorist attack.

Only she has the wise head to go nuclear, should that Strangelovian phone call from a power-mad Putin come into the White House at 3 a.m. Her ad shows how composed she would be at the dread moment when she picks up the phone. Her nuke look is feminine, in a tailored camel-colored jacket and gold necklace, yet serious, in Tina Fey black reading glasses.

<snip>

On a conference call Friday with Hillary’s ever-more-hysterical male strategists, Slate’s John Dickerson asked exactly when she had been tested in a foreign policy crisis. After a silence long enough to knit a sweater in, as the Web site The Hotline put it, Mark Penn cited “her work on the Armed Services Committee.”

Hillary’s boys pout that the press should find some dirt on Obama before time runs out. Their once fearsome campaign is now reduced to whining that Obama did not hold any substantive hearings of his Subcommittee on European Affairs. What’s next? Bitterly complaining that he missed a quorum call?

<snip>

This time, Americans may prefer cerebral arguments to visceral ones. What a refreshing change reality would be.

[redstate_democrat]

1. Maureen

has been bringing it to Hillary's doorstep. She is right. Hillary's campaign is just grasping for straws right now.

[VenusRising]

3. I thought the wording was harsh

but the message is right, especially in the last sentence.

[FrenchieCat]

2. I hope Hillary will be waking up to reality soon.......

cause the false hope that her campaign is attempting to give her supporters is making me sad. :(

[VenusRising]

4. I wish that her advisors had done a better job.

They have not done a service for anyone except getting themselves $3 million a month. That's what is really sad to me.

It's like the saying goes: Fail to plan. Plan to fail.

[JimGinPA]

5. I Love Maureen Dowd

Always have.


K&R

[VenusRising]

7. You don't have to wonder how she feels, do you?

:hi:

[JimGinPA]

9. No, She Doesn't Candy-Coat Much

:rofl:

[VenusRising]

10. Uhhhh.....no, she doesn't.

:rofl:

[Johnny__Motown]

28. I'm with ya there. She is something special

[Kittycat]

6. Channeling her Inner Cheney - Ouch

That says it all.

[VenusRising]

8. She's brutal.

[KLee]

11. OUCH

[Beacool]

12. Maureen can go screw herself!!!!

She has been a nasty harridan against Hillary for years now.

Hey Maureen, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!

[jlake]

19. Seconded. MoDo needs to channel her hatred into something positive....

she could end all wars and solve global warming in the first week.

[cali]

23. ack, what's the world coming to?

we agree again. I can't stand Dowd. I think she's a piss poor writer and she's always hated Hillary.

[caligirl]

13. great comeback ad, Bill ought to hate this almost as much as South Carolina, ouch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe0BPwWAxnk

[VenusRising]

14. I'm sure things like this make their blood boil.

It is so different in the era of YouTube when everyone really does have a voice and things can go viral in hours.

[caligirl]

18. I posted this at an Ohio blog site. hoping it goes around fast this weekend.

[FrenchieCat]

20. Good. Such irony should not be missed.....

till too late.

[VenusRising]

22. I'm sure you'll do your best.

:)

[Tatiana]

15. OUCH! MoDo can be really vicious. n/t

[blonndee]

16. Kick.

[eridani]

17. Dowd is a twit n /t

[CreekDog]

21. Good thing for Hillary is that Dowd is dumb as a bag of hammers

and as subtle.

[JamesA1102]

24. Dowd will turn on Obama.

Her columns are like reading a spoiled teenager's slam book. She spent most of 2000 lying about Gore and a good part of last year going after Edwards. Last week she called Obama feminine. As soon as he is the nominee, she will tear him apart.

[boston bean]

25. She is a republican shill. People will wake up and realize that no matter who is the nominee. nt

[Whisp]

27. she seems to hate everybody. ;)

I really like her snotty 'tude in her columns.

I think she is very witty, in a rusty razor kind of way - different humor than what we are used to - reminds me a teeny bit how british humor is different than ours.

[VenusRising]

26. .

:kick: