Maureen Dowd thinks Obama is effete; a starlet who can't bowl and watches his weight

[futuro]

Maureen Dowd hates Clinton more than anyone else. Maybe this is why in her latest Hillary-bashing column, few noticed her depiction of Obama, again, as a delicate, affeminate man who watches his weight just like a woman. Kinda like in the same way she called Edwards the 'Breck girl'.

Obama has been less adept at absorbing the lesson of Hillary’s metamorphosis from entitled queen of the party to scrappy blue-collar mama. His strenuous and inadvertently hilarious efforts to woo working-class folk in Pennsylvania have only made him seem more effete. Keeping his tie firmly in place, he genteelly sipped his pint of Yuengling beer at Sharky’s sports cafe in Latrobe and bowled badly in Altoona. Challenging Obama to a bowl-off, Hillary kindly offered to “spot him two frames.”

At the Wilbur chocolate shop in Lititz Monday, he spent most of his time skittering away from chocolate goodies, as though he were a starlet obsessing on a svelte waistline.

“Oh, now,” the woman managing the shop told him with a frown, “you don’t worry about calories in a chocolate factory.”

Obama's role in Dowd's next chapter is slowly shaping up.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/opinion/02dowd.html

[loveangelc]

1. I still love MoDo. The article wasn't that harsh toward Obama.

I found it kind of funny lol.

[pnwmom]

22. If you like Obama, you will come to despise Maureen Dowd --

at least, if he's the nominee.

Trust me.

[nolabels]

31. I disliked her gurgle long before i ever heard the word Obama

Sort of like that toothpaste foam after you've brushed. It's okay for a minute or two, but not fit for any type internal consumption to be sure.

[KittyWampus]

44. sorry, If you like real journalism, integrity, progressive ideals... there's no way to excuse

Dowd.

If you can't figure out how her writing ultimately trashes Democrats, or think what she does is harmless and amusing, I beg you to reconsider.

[scheming daemons]

2. Welcome to DU.....

[DJ13]

3. That does it, Dowd is DEAD to me!

Not really, Im not like that.

:evilgrin:

[2rth2pwr]

4. Did you see his form bowling?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtBBgn0I34E

LOL!

My 3 yr old can shoot a 98.

[Forkboy]

12. He bowls worse the Uribe for crying out loud!

[Blondbostonian]

35. Wait to the press shows his 3 on 3 baketball tournament

He's got real game. Obama can dunk the basketball and hit the 3 point shot.

The young voters are going to love that clip on You Tube.

[Blondbostonian]

36. dup

[Cosmocat]

46. Ah, yes ... the REAL measurement of a POTUS ...

Bowling ...

[angie_love]

5. back so soon?

[Bread and Circus]

6. People forget her birth name is not Maureen, it's Heather...

and she still thinks we're all in high school.

[pnwmom]

26. LOL! That she does!

On second thought -- middle school is what I'm thinking. No wonder I can't stand her.

[Alter Ego]

42. I've noticed that--MoDo tries to break every issue into a catty, personal snarlfest

that makes it sound like a locker room slapfight.

[Barack_America]

7. Curiously, my vision of Dowd is that of a somewhat delicate woman...

...who probably watches her weight and cannot bowl.

I still love me some Dowd, but I find her description here a little ironic.

[pnwmom]

25. You will hate her one day, if Obama becomes President --

assuming you like Obama of course.

This is only the beginning of her nastiness toward him. It will get much worse.

[ginnyinWI]

8. I get fed up with Maureen Dowd's cynicism.

That inside the beltway, "give me any politician and watch me cut him/her down to size" attitude. I don't know--seems to me that the country is in too much peril to laugh at people who want to help save it.

[tomreedtoon]

16. Has Dowd ever appeared live, in debate...ever?

I get the feeling she's like Cruella DeVil's elderly aunt, with Barbara Bush's charming personality.

[ginnyinWI]

56. I've seen her here and there

On Tim Russert's Saturday show, on C-span--she comes off as kind of a superior know-it-all. Kind of like Ann Coulter only she leans left rather than right.

[kevinmc]

9. "Hillary Clinton is winning and Obama has been soundly defeated in Bowling"

"Oh..... and Death to the Infidels"

Paid for by

[FrenchieCat]

10. Maureen should "effete" this!

[rodeodance]

11. REC

[cali]

37. OK, now I know you're completely out of it

Dowd has been vicious toward Hillary and i've knocked her for her nastiness toward HRC. You? You're selective and simplistic.

[CreekDog]

41. you're recommending this? why?

is this useful information?

[dsc]

48. because we need to know she is a Democrat hating liar.

[BenDavid]

13. paraphrase. obama has no balls......is what modowd is saying

[pnwmom]

27. He's not a guy you'd want to have a beer with, she's saying,

unless you're the type who likes to sip. . .

[Alter Ego]

47. Actually, I'd love to sit and have a beer with Obama

because I wouldn't have to make sure to use one-syllable words, and I would be able to broaden the conversation beyond "How 'bout them Cubs?"

[pnwmom]

53. Me, too -- but Maureen's not talking about effete snobs like us.

;)

[Forkboy]

14. Welcome back piehole.

[eleny]

15. Wow - check it out...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=218362

[Raine]

21. Whoa that didn't take long!

:thumbsup:

[LTR]

17. This article actually makes a few good points

Too bad it was spun around by some inane troll.

I read it earlier and I have to agree that Obama does gain somewhat by having Hillary try to rough him up. Aside from the swamp that bred Atwater and Rove, the Clinton machine is the only one that comes close to pit bull politics. McCain doesn't have anything like this. So in essence, Obama's fighting the tough fights now, so he won't have to once he gets the nom.

Oh, and IBTL.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

18. Maureen is a gossip columnist. And an asshole.

Can we please stop linking to her inane drivel?

Please?

[woolldog]

19. I thought is was a good article.

And she made some compelling points. This contest with Clinton has upped Obama's game.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

20. He watches his weight????

never heard that one.

[FrenchieCat]

23. It's because he called a piece of double fudge cake, decadent......

But he seems to down french fries and hot wings pretty readily...

I'm not taking Maureen seriously on this.....it's just something for her to write about. I consider him sexy, and my husband watches what he eats as well.....and he's looking really foine too. :)

I have more concern for those who would take it seriously.

[Eric J in MN]

30. Every 4 years she portrays the Democratic candidate as feminine. NT

NT

[pnwmom]

24. A man his age better watch his weight, if he wants to stay healthy and fit.

Even tall men like Obama have to watch what they eat, eventually.

[cali]

39. I know quite a few skinny over 40 men who don't watch their weight

and eat anything they feel like.

[pnwmom]

54. Wait till they're fifty and their cholesterol levels are too high.

Even a little extra weight in the midsection can wreak havoc, raising the risk of everything from diabetes to Alzheimers.

[DerekJ]

28. TS'd .. good riddance.

[donheld]

33. Good bye to garbage

[Strelnikov_]

57. Appears futuro had no futuro n/t

[EFerrari]

29. She would know. n/t

[KaptBunnyPants]

32. I think Maureen Dowd is an imbecile who trots out the same "Mean Girls" crap every damn election.

Would it kill her to talk about something important just once in her entire pathetic career?

[farmbo]

34. Al Gore was "... a bore" and Obama is "...efete"...and Dowd IS the Olde Politics

Catty, self-absorbed,and hopelessly snarky, why is this woman so obsessed with the superficialities of a candidate that she cannot bring herself to write about the candidate's actual stances on issues?

Remember this: This woman made George Bush possible by leading the electronic stampede against Al Gore's "boorishness" from the pages of the Grey Lady.

Grey Lady, indeed!

[PA Democrat]

38. MoDo is kind of like Mikey in that old Life cereal commercial...

she hates everyone, or so it sometimes seems. I think that her schtick is to be the nasty sarcastic columnist who "hates" everyone. I have to admit, I love it when she aims her biting wit at Bush and Cheney, but it makes me angry when I see her go after OUR guys.

[TexasObserver]

40. Maureen Dowd is suffering from Botox poisoning

I don't know who convinced her she is a vamp, but she's not. She's a cranky, over the hill, slightly less annoying version of Peggy Noonan. She always looks and sounds like she's on downers when she appears on TV.

[Orsino]

43. MoDo is an idiot, there to do nothing more than fill inches.

She helped install *, and will try to do the same for McCain.

[Vinca]

45. Maybe he doesn't like chocolate. Maybe he's allergic to chocolate.

Is it mandatory to stuff your face at every stop? What a stupid, stupid notion. (That said, I'm pretty certain I spotted a photo of him eating a chocolate.) As for the bowling - what was great about that was his obvious ability to laugh at himself. I think he endeared himself to a whole lot of people when he rolled gutter balls. Effete is not a word I would use to describe Obama.

[ShortnFiery]

49. Maureen Dowd is an equal opportunity Femme Fatale ... simply put, "Maureen has ISSUES."

Lots and LOTS of issues all centered around "sex roles stereotypes." ;)

[kwassa]

50. Maureen Dowd doesn't like anyone to take attention away from herself.

Maureen Dowd is all about Maureen Dowd.

[dogday]

51. I hate these remarks, it is ridiculous to

put labels on Obama, just as it is to put them on Clinton...

[HamdenRice]

52. Uh.... The entire piece was intended to be ironic

I realize that sometimes MoDo's humor is so convoluted that it's easy to miss what she is intending.

But the point of her piece was to look at Obama from Hillary's perspective -- that Hillary is doing Obama a favor by toughening him up.

It wasn't intended to be read as MoDo's own perspective.

[Deep13]

55. She's right. Voting for O. is a way for men to express their feminine side...

...without voting for an actual female.