Obama - Can he take a frisk? Maureen Dowd

[groovedaddy]

After “Rahmbo” Emanuel, the Illinois congressman dubbed “the hostage negotiator” by the Obama forces, fails to talk Hillary down, Barack Obama knows that he is left with one final roll of the dice. He sets up a secret meeting with Bill Clinton in neutral territory at Rahm’s hideaway office in the Capitol.

Bill arrives two hours late, red-faced and truculent.

“If you brought me over here to cry uncle, shame on you, Barack Obama. You and your press lackeys are engaged in a cover-up even though Hillary’s winnin’ the popular vote and the general election.”

“Hey, Bill, please, stop wagging your finger at me. Call off Harold Ickes and the Hillaryland Huns. You’re right. I can’t win without her. The two of us can clean McCain’s grandfather clock.”

“Goshalmighty. You could knock me over with a hair on a biscuit, Barack. Smart move, everybody wins. Now Hillary won’t be the skunk at your Denver garden party.”

“That’s why they call me: No Drama Obama.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/opinion/28dowd.html?th&emc=th

[BlooInBloo]

1. It's an uncommonly good MoDo. Your OP gives no idea what it's point is tho.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. The jucier stuff is deeper in the column:

“Mr. President, I’m going to run a very transparent administration, everything on C-Span. So I’ll need a full accounting of your foundation donors.”

“Oh, sure thing, buddy, from this day forward.”

“No, Bill, we’ll need full disclosure of your business dealings for the last eight years. And you can no longer accept Arab millions — not if I’m going to talk tough to them about oil. I can’t send Hillary on diplomatic missions to the Middle East if you’re taking money from Dubai and Kuwait. And no more trips to Kazakhstan. I wouldn’t want to have to put a Geiger-counter bracelet on you to check that you’re not involved in another shady uranium deal.”

[BlooInBloo]

3. I suspect the OP is a Clinton supporter who didn't understand what the column was about.

[Miss Authoritiva]

5. Don't know about that...

Don't know about that. I think groovedaddy was so smart just to excerpt the first few grafs and include the link. It's hard to excerpt a Dowd column in general and a Dowd fantasy column in particular.

[Miss Authoritiva]

4. Fantasy MoDo

You know, the NYT is missing out on a potentially lucrative opportunity here. Whenever Dowd does one of her fantasy columns, the Times should have it produced as a reenactment as well. They'd be short and YouTube-able -- just what America loves. And they would eventually agglomerate into the American memory borg of real and imagined events that forms our history.