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[AtomicKitten]

[TwilightGardener]

1. Wow--that is a headline I just don't need to dwell on...

[givemebackmycountry]

2. Maureen Dowd Sniffs Obama's Butt on Campaign Trail

I have to tell you ...

That's one of the FUNNIEST headers for a post that I have seen in years.
That actually made me laugh out loud!

[MADem]

3. MODO looks nothing like Ingrid Bergman in "Bells of St. Mary's"

She might bear a vague resemblance to the nun's MOTHER, maybe!!!

On that sentence alone, I'm inclined to ask, "Who's she kidding???"



And I hardly think Obama needs boxing lessons from the likes of MODO. Further, one has to wonder why she always manages to make these sorts of columns about HER. No one gives a shit, Maureen, about an ancient reference that only old coots like ME even remember. Seriously--who the fuck under age, say, thirty has even SEEN the damned BELLS OF ST. MARY's???

Frankly, I am tired of this POTSTIRRING method of covering these contests. If it isn't making lame, OOOOH, your ancestry is BLACK plus, so let's compare you to someone else who's BLACK plus...let's see...Halle Berry? Naaah, it has to be a guy...Quincy Jones? Naaaaah.....too old, and not enough folks know about his WHITESIDE....I got it--TIGER WOODS!!!--it's the AUTO CATFIGHT mode they go into when talking about female candidates. Meow, meow, let's talk about clothes, hair, makeup (I'm stunned at the continued pantsuit discussions, especially since Laura Bush apparently raided Hillary's closet and no one says jack to her about them...).

Let's talk about ANYTHING but the issues. Let's make up hissy fits, imagined differences, petty squawks, and not discuss the young adults dying for a lie in Iraq. Let's get catty, and ignore the poor, the sick, those without health insurance. Let's tackle every little crapstory, save the issues!

ENOUGH. I am FED UP TO HERE with this sniping, picking, lame, gotcha shit.

As an "undecided" (save my vote for Al Gore, if he jumps in, and my vote for ANY DEMOCRAT in the general election) voter, I think I deserve better. And I think the rest of the nation does, too.

[TwilightGardener]

4. You're right--

I love how she has to cast herself as a role in Obama's "movie". I'm sure she has soooo much to teach her cute little Obambi! How nauseatingly self-aggrandizing she is. And how condescending to a respected, accomplished man close to her own age!

[MADem]

5. Someone needs to tell her.... first, that it isn't all about her

And second, after a certain age, that vampish shit is .... undignified. To put it kindly.

Lauren Bacall is, to my mind, one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she doesn't need to push herself to the fore to keep that mantle--she's earned it because she wears it every day, to this very day, in her bearing, her conduct, and with her sharp intellect. And she's no spring chicken, nor is she a columnist, but I'd wager we'd get a better, more useful interview out of the Senator if she conducted it. And no vamping, either, from the woman who did it better than anyone else!

Maureen is coming across poorly of late. Perhaps she's run out of gas. She might want to take a sabbatical, and write a book that doesn't have the word "I" in it. She's got a million miles to go before she hits Coulter territory, but that said, we on the left have higher standards and expect much more of columnists than that sort of tripe. It's simply unbecoming. The NYT should be a bit red faced, IMO.