Maureen Dowd: Begrudging His Bedazzling

[washingdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/opinion/27dowd.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin


Sorry if this has been posted already.

[washingdem]

1. Burn!

"She has been so discombobulated that she has ignored some truisms of politics that her husband understands well: Sunny beats gloomy. Consistency beats flipping. Bedazzling beats begrudging. Confidence beats whining.

Experience does not beat excitement, though, or Nixon would have been president the first time around, Poppy Bush would have had a second term and President Gore would have stopped the earth from melting by now.

Voters gravitate toward the presidential candidates who seem more comfortable in their skin. J.F.K. and Reagan seemed exceptionally comfortable. So did Bill Clinton and W., who both showed that comfort can be an illusion of sorts, masking deep insecurities.

The fact that Obama is exceptionally easy in his skin has made Hillary almost jump out of hers. She can’t turn on her own charm and wit because she can’t get beyond what she sees as the deep injustice of Obama not waiting his turn. Her sunshine-colored jackets on the trail hardly disguise the fact that she’s pea-green with envy."

[Whisp]

2. wow. scathing but true.

she sure has that rapier wit stuff about her, that Maureen.

[washingdem]

5. Yeah, another great line:

"Beating on the press is the lamest thing you can do. It is only because of the utter open-mindedness of the press that Hillary can lose 11 contests in a row and still be treated as a contender."

Well said.

[uberblonde]

7. So they wrote off John Edwards instead?

I don't think so.

Maureen Dowd is no friend of the Democrats and has never been. Try to remember that. She is, to put it bluntly, a wacko.

[BeyondGeography]

3. "After saying she found her 'voice' in New Hampshire, she has turned into Sybil. "

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. Great line and so true . . .

Hillary changes personalities like some people change clothes. Obama seems so at ease in his own skin and everyone I know - even if they disagree with him - still like him. Which explains why he's so successful. When people like you, they will at least listen to what you have to say. That's the secret to changing minds and bringing people together.

[chelsea0011]

4. Dowd? Another anti-Clinton column? I'm shocked!!!!!

I've all but given up that I will get nothing more than a grin or two out of a month of her writings.