Maureen Dowd: Mama Hugs Iowa

[Veronica.Franco]

Maureen Dowd: Mama Hugs Iowa

DAVENPORT, Iowa - When she was little, Hillary Rodham would sit on a basement bench and pretend she was flying a spaceship to Mars. Her younger brother Hugh, perched behind, would sometimes beg for a chance to be captain.

No dice. “She would always drive, and I would always have to sit in the back,” he once told me.

Through all the years of sitting behind Bill Clinton on his trip to the stars, Hillary fidgeted and elbowed, trying to be co-captain rather than just wingman, or worse, winglady.

Finally, in Iowa, she was once more behind the wheel of her spaceship to Mars. She didn’t have to prop up Bill after one of his roguish pratfalls. She didn’t have to feign interest in East Wing piffle — table settings and pastry chefs and designer gowns. She didn’t have to defer to her male colleagues in the Senate, stepping back to give them the limelight.

http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/01/maureen-dowd-mama-hugs-iowa.html

[aquart]

1. Maureen Dowd "knew"?

I must have missed that column. (Well, I'm damned if I'll spend money to read them.)

Maybe she could have attempted a real analysis...then...now...whenever...of what could make BOTH New York senators vote for IWR. Hillary was the junior senator. Was she following advice from Schumer, the senior senator? Who did she talk to before that important vote, and what was the decision? Did the exaltation of 9/11 as the most important event in the history of the world affect the votes of New York's senators?

Well, we won't find out from Maureen. She'd rather write about Hillary's hair and clothes.

[skiddlybop]

2. I guess Dowd reverts to type

now that she thinks Congress will take care of all...

Now she's back to Clinton-bashing till Congress flips back to the Goopers.

Useless. Totally useless and out of touch with the way anyone real lives their lives.

[Missy M]

3. Dowd ready to do her hatchet job on Hillary.....

same as she did to Al Gore. Dowd is the one getting boring, same old, same old.

[herbbrown]

4. Knock the Messenger all you want

but how can the last paragraph be refuted:

Hillary didn’t have the nerve to oppose a popular president on a national security issue after 9/11, and she feared being cast as an antiwar hippie when she ran. Now she feels she can’t simply say she made a bad decision. And that makes her seem conniving — not a good mix with nurturing.

C'mon people, wake up and call it like it is!

I for one am tired of the Clinton Republican Lite BS. I live in Detroit and I see everyday what the last Clintons NAFTA plan did for this area, enough already!

[Veronica.Franco]

5. Hillary lost me some time ago ...

After the last election she appeared on Larry King Live and did an unconvincing schtick about how much she "prays and prays" ... it came across as very contrived ... THEN, more recently, she had a fundraiser with Rupert Murdoch ... I agree with you ... so far she's nothing more then Republican Lite ...

If she is the Democratic nominee at the time of the election I'd vote for her ... but I'd prefer Russ Feingold ...

[herbbrown]

6. Well said

I'd vote for her, but only if I had to. Hey didn't we lose with John Kerry that very same way. For God sakes people think, support the best candidate not the most electable one.

[Veronica.Franco]

7. Hillary needs to get real ... gut level ...

Let people past that veneer ... problem is I think she's had the wall up for a very long time and she may not even realize it's there anymore ...