MoDo wants a Daddy

[HopeOverFear]

Maureen Dowd:

He’s so sure of himself and his actions that he fails to see that he misses the moment to be president — to be the strong father who protects the home from invaders, who reassures and instructs the public at traumatic moments.

Tristero:

I simply can't believe that anyone would write that they need the president of the United States to be their Daddy. I simply can't believe that the New York Times would publish an op-ed columnist who would write that she needs the president of the United States to be her Daddy. I simply can't believe that our public discourse is so debased that someone as unstable as MoDo has regular access to a wide public - not to rise above her psychological problems and inform us, or provide us with sensible opinions, but merely to trot out her deeply weird neuroses because she apparently thinks everyone shares them.

And that - the abysmal level of our public discourse - scares the daylights out of me.

[ima_sinnic]

1. substitute the word "leader," then, if it makes you feel better (nt)

[lib2DaBone]

2. I like Maureen Dowd. Not as much as I lOVE Molly Ivins....

..but Maureen is a fighter... she lays it on the line. (one of the few)

Of course our shadow govt and the banksters don't like her.. she makes them.. "uneasy". lol

Can't let the truth get out, can we?

[HopeOverFear]

3. soooo you want a Daddy, too?

just asking. :shrug:

[lib2DaBone]

9. I think she was using a metaphor.. or an anology...maybe not the best comparison..

saying that Obama missed the chance to be a "daddy". Although she was saying something that is the truth.. the observation that Obama has failed to be a "leader", it probably was not the strongest way to make the comparison. I think her "tongue in cheek" or maybe she forgot to add the little dripping sarcasim thingy at the bottom of her article.

Given the fact that we have sharks and perfectionists and PHd's here on DU... I agree that her choice of words was not the best... but still truth.

Oh, and Oh yes, HopeOverFear.. I'll be your daddy. Now go to your corner and do your time out... for being such a putz...

[HopeOverFear]

16. yeeeeah, you DO want a Daddy. You're just too afraid to admit it.

You try to cover it up by making lame attempts at insults, like in that last sentence, Oh, but DO keep trying. With enough practice, you'll get better.

*snicker*

[impik]

17. So you think that Obama is not "protecting" us?

The only ones failing are those who can't see what a great president he is. You all need not just a father (and a shrink), but also glasses and some education.

[smalll]

18. I actually hate her. But I will admit, when MoDo turns against you, things don't look good --

Don't forget, she started as an GHW Bush fan.

She liked Clinton at first too.

But eventually she turns on every President.

[nightrain]

4. I think you're being too literal. OTOH, leaders are often projected upon.

I really doubt Maureen Dowd was being literal. You?

[salguine]

10. Oh, Jesus fucking Christ, another fucking acronym. Why can't people just write anymore? What

in Jesus H carbonated Christ's name is OTOH?

Sorry if I'm coming off a little crazy. Severe acronym fatigue has just about fucking unhinged me.

Seriously. Why can't people just write it out?

If the Constitution had been written today, the preamble would have read,
"WTP of the US, in order to FAMPU, EJ and IDT, provide for the CD, promote the GW and secure the BOL, to OAOP, do OAE this C for the USA.

Nothing personal, nightrain. I just don't know how much more I can stand.

[nightrain]

11. OTOH = "on the other hand"--not common parlance?

[salguine]

14. Thanks. Sorry I went a little spazzoid there.

[nightrain]

20. yeah, what's that about?

[Clio the Leo]

5. What? Are we living in Czarist Russia?

Ezra Klein said that in a different political time, she'd and her paper would be EMBARRASSED to have written such a piece.

[BeyondGeography]

6. She's getting dumped on pretty good for this over at the NYT comments page

as well she should:

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/opinion/10dowd.html

[impik]

19. Love the most recommended one:

"Well, Obama is not perfect, no one is. However, as someone who only voted for him after Sarah Ditz was nominated, I am impressed with how hard he is working for the country. The Party of No is there to try to block him at every step and sometimes he gets stabbed in the back by so called Democrats. But he is the best president I have seen in this office so far, in my my life. He will turn out to be another Roosevelt or Truman".

Seeing it's got more than 1000 votes, made me feel much better.

[Fire1]

7. WHO'S YA DA Nevermind. Strike that. lol!!!

[burning rain]

8. Christ.

Dowd's like a liberal Peggy Noonan there.

[zulchzulu]

12. MoDo has been out of ammo for a while

This is just another example. Pathetic...

[dsc]

13. The fact Maureen Dawd is a deranged crack pot is hardly news

It is sad that she is given one of the highest perches in all of journalism to write such utter rot.

[SpartanDem]

15. In others words she wants him pander and fearmonger like Bush

I was proud that Obama didn't get front camera the second after the attack in order to spew some tough talkin, cowboy bullshit.

[Forkboy]

21. She's one of the more demented people out there.

Even when she's right she gives me the creeps.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. Maybe I've watched to many 80s movies. But her writing reminds me of a

cheerleader getting a job as a high school columnist.

[JamesA1102]

22. Dowd's column is like reading

the slam book of a spoiled teenager.

[Jennicut]

23. She has always has major psychological issues.

Her utter hatred of Gore and Hillary told me enough. I do not need to be coddled, I am a grown woman. I simply need someone to be an adult and to think I can be one too. She is a sad, sad case.

[Dr.Phool]

24. Who's Your Daddy!?!?