Dowd: Butch, Butch Bush!

[Snellius]

Let's get it straight. The president and the pope aren't riding the new gay wave.

"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman," said President Bush last week. "And I think we ought to codify that one way or the other. And we've got lawyers looking at the best way to do that." Trying to add a tolerant note to an intolerant policy, he allowed that he was "mindful that we're all sinners."

Last time I checked, we had separation of church and state, so I don't know why the president is talking about sin, or why he is implying that gays who want to make a permanent commitment in a world full of divorce and loneliness are sinners.
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Maybe the president and his swaggering circle should think about a "Queer Eye" makeover. I asked a gay political reporter friend if he could offer some tips:

On the vice president: "I'd love to see Cheney with a pierced ear and a diamond stud. Or in a body-hugging black T-shirt, just for the pure sport of it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/opinion/03DOWD.html

[joeybee12]

1. God, that would be a great episode!

Maybe SNL or MadTV will do a parody! One can only hope!

[kskiska]

2. Was just about to post this

Great stuff!!

When it came to the president's possibilities, he got really excited: "Cowboy boots are fine for a certain kind of saucy backyard barbecue. But wearing them as often as he does, with those big belt buckles in the shape of Texas, it seems like he's trying too hard to prove his masculinity.

"He's definitely on the right track with low-stress weight lifting, but if he really wants a physique for the ages, a little yoga would help uncoil that gunslinger hunch.

"His hair is too tightly clipped. It looks painted on. And he's a huge squinter. The corner of his eyes are starting to look lined. Botox alert!

"He needs to dip into the merciful world of cosmetic products and avail himself of some kind of lip balm or gloss that helps mask the fact that he misplaced his lips somewhere.

[izzie]

3. Do Rep. Have lips?

n/t

[SharonAnn]

4. Too, too funny!

I could almost forgive Dowd for everything.

Being so irreverent about Cheney and Shrub, isn't it fun?

[sam sarrha]

5. I'd like to read the article, but i am shy about spreading my info to

people like that.

[berry]

7. Here, sam, the rest of the stuff on Bush

"In open-collar shirts, he has a tiny little island of lost chest hair. It is too low to be a shaving oversight and too high to be a peripheral outgrowth of Alec Baldwin chest mat. It's neither fish nor fowl, so he should wax it out of there.

"Everything else about him just shouts `Butch, butch, butch!' But to throw Bush a metrosexual bone, whenever you see him walking off Air Force One with that little furball Barney under his arm, that canine puff of air that most drag queens wouldn't be caught dead with, it's like he's halfway to a Chanel rabbit fur handbag.

"Bush does such a good job of seeming blissfully laid back and vacantly bubbly that he might as well go blond. It might help with California's electoral votes, too."

[Dudley_DUright]

6. What is it with MoDo

and Botox? Seems like she has to mention it in practically every column. She must be a major stockholder in the primary supplier.

[realFedUp]

8. The Dowd is up.

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[Skittles]

9. AW

leave Barney alone! Isn't it enough that dipshit carries him around???

[Merlin]

10. This may be her worst column ever.

And about half of it she didn't even write. Pure crap.

[tni]

11. MoDo

She's not funny like she used to be.