MAUREEN DOWD: Running With Scissors

Whether or not the country is ready to elect a woman president or a black president, it’s definitely not ready for a metrosexual in chief.

In presidential politics, it’s all but impossible to put the man into manicure. Be sensitive, but not soft. Effete is never effective. Not much has changed since George H. W. Bush drove his New Hampshire campaign off the road by requesting “a splash” more coffee at a truck stop.

John Kerry sank himself by windsurfing in spandex and ordering a cheese steak in Philly with Swiss instead of Cheez Whiz.

We haven’t reached the point where we can handle a green-tea-soy-latte-drinking, self-tanning-sea-salt-mango-body-wrapping, Norah-Jones-listening, yoga-toning chief executive.

Bill Clinton sometimes flirted with metrosexuality, with Zegna ties, Christophe haircuts, Donna Karan suits and keen anima, but the heterosexual beat out the metrosexual.

Americans have revered such homely leaders as Abe Lincoln. They seem open to balding pates like Rudy’s and flattops like Jon Tester’s. They don’t want self-confidence to look like self-love.......

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/04/maureen-dowd-running-with-scissors.html

That fish you see is actually the shark you jumped in 2000, belittling Al Gore.

Look what that got us.

Fuck you, Ms. Dowd.

to trash the dems.

What superficial claptrap.

People are dying while she's contemplating her next bon mot.

I wonder what other keen observations she might have for us in these turbulent times... :sarcasm:

accessories to her physical personality, is she inauthentic? Image counts. Even Ms. magazine accepted ads from the cosmetics industry for years. It may do that still, for all I know.

I read MoDo all the time, and like her well enough, but her slams on Gore in 2000 and now on Edwards are unjustified. She is as image-conscious as anyone in the public eye.

Kennedy insiders have noted that people who listened to the Kennedy-Nixon debate on radio felt that Nixon won; those who watched it on television were certain Kennedy had won.

This is a media age and the camera is everywhere.

For all his comprehensively thoughtful analyses on then-current struggles, Abraham Lincoln would not likely fare very well on Tweety's program. Lincoln would be unelectable today.

This pathetic excuse for a teenage tattletale should be terminated once and for all from the SCREW YORK TIMES and she should be forced to get a real job that fits her true abilities--such as a WalMart Greeter!

and she didn't even feel the breeze that ruffled her coifed head.

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