Maureen Dowd (NYT): Gunsmoke and Mirrors

[Dudley_DUright]

This is how bad things are for George W. Bush: He's back in a dead heat with Al Gore.

(And this is how bad things are for Al Gore: He's back in a dead heat with George W. Bush.)

One terrorist attack, two wars, three tax cuts, four months of guerrilla mayhem in Iraq, five silly colors on a terror alert chart, nine nattering Democratic candidates, 10 Iraqi cops killed by Americans, $87 billion in Pentagon illusions, a gazillion boastful Osama tapes, zero Saddam and zilch W.M.D. have left America split evenly between the president and former vice president.

"More than two and a half years after the 2000 election and we are back where we started," marveled John Zogby, who conducted the poll.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/opinion/14DOWD.html

[Maccagirl]

1. Why the gratuitous Gore slam?

I guess MODO just hates everybody.

[cosmicdot]

2. it's MODO's MO

from what I've observed, she can't criticize the Repukes without slamming, in this case ... Al ... I'm surprised "Clintonesque" missed this one ...

I emailed her once about her not criticizing shrub, and she emailed back ... I think she was convinced she had criticized * once ... so, I guess she's making some progress ...

[fizzana]

3. Let's not get too oversensitive here.

It was a funny line. There are times when MoDo pisses me off but remember she's a columnist, not a Democrat Party mouthpiece.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. If she's a professional columnist, she should be able

to take the criticism.

[The Zanti Regent]

8. Please MODO the DODO is a GOP mouthpiece

Look at her columns and you will see for every Bush slam there are dozens of Bill, Hillary and Al slams.

My nephew went to Iran and got shot in the spine because of MoDos whoring for Bush.

[chiburb]

4. This is one of her best yet...

Very powerful and mocking of Shrub. A must read...

[markses]

6. I agree: Especially Rumsfeld as Voltaire's Doctor Pangloss

"All's for the best, in this best of all possible worlds!"

Almost sounds like the nonsense that comes out of the old vampire's mouth.

[realFedUp]

7. The Dowd is up

!

[MasonJar]

9. Dowd on Bush

Dowd seems to have credibility now because she did take on Gore and Clinton, fair or unfair. Let's take what we can get. She has come down hard on the Bushites for a year now.