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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:08 AM
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Maureen Dowd, if this is any indication, we know what is to come. She is a useless windbag.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/opinion/23dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

If Bill Clinton has to trash his legacy to protect his legacy, so be it. If he has to put a dagger through the heart of hope to give Hillary hope, so be it.

If he has to preside in this state as the former first black president stopping the would-be first black president, so be it.

The Clintons — or “the 2-headed monster,” as the The New York Post dubbed the tag team that clawed out wins in New Hampshire and Nevada — always go where they need to go, no matter the collateral damage. Even if the damage is to themselves and their party.

Bill’s transition from elder statesman, leader of his party and bipartisan ambassador to ward heeler and hatchet man has been seamless — and seamy.

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adabfree Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:11 AM
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1. Hmmmm
I like the way she thinks and writes!  
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 08:38 AM
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12. I'm not surprised
Do you know anything of this harpy's history?
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:11 AM
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2. She's a useless windbag regardless of which candidate she writes on
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:12 AM
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3. I'll never forgive her for what she did to Gore and Kerry. She's petty and superficial
And makes the whole campaign about the most trivial "character" issues that are completely subjective. She also makes up quotes that fit her script, such as Kerry's never-said "Who among us doesn't enjoy NASCAR?"
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:15 AM
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4. The one I found in this article that is glaring, is that she thinks
Hillary was talking about Reagan.

She was not, it was about republicans being the party of ideas. She needs to get her head out of her ass.

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avaistheone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:28 PM
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15. Yes, Maureen is superficial. She sounds alot like Tweety.
Doesn't she?


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algol Donating Member (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:21 AM
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5. Yet I still read her regularly.
Sometimes its an burning desert wind, sometimes a pathetic chilly wind, sometimes that perfect breeze of relief.
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:22 AM
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6. Dowd is a piece of crap.
No matter who she is writing about. Bill has an 83% approval rating among Dems and some people just can't stand the fact that he is well liked regardless of how they try to smear him. She claims that the Clinton's are a "2-headed monster" yet all of the other candidates have spouses helping them and defending them. She is a useless windbag. In other words, she is a Republican in disguise.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:26 AM
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7. Obsesssed with the Clintons Kathy Bates in Misery style - back to what she does best
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boston bean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:28 AM
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8. She really never disappoints, does she??
:eyes:
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:46 AM
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10. Hell hath no fury...but she has a new audience now...
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:33 AM
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9. I don't always agree with MoDo but this time she is spot on.
Thanks for the link. :kick: Here's some more below...

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Bad Bill had been roughing up Obama so much that Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina suggested that he might want to “chill.” On a conference call with reporters yesterday, the former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a national co-chairman of the Obama campaign, tut-tutted that the “incredible distortions” of the political beast were “not keeping with the image of a former president.”

Jonathan Alter reported in Newsweek that Senator Edward Kennedy and Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman and former Clinton aide, have heatedly told Bill “that he needs to change his tone and stop attacking Senator Barack Obama.”

In the Myrtle Beach debate Monday night, Obama was fed up with being double-teamed by the Clintons. He finally used attack lines that his strategists had urged him to use against Hillary for months. “It was as though all the e-mails were backed up,” said one.

When Hillary tried once more to take Obama’s remarks about Ronald Reagan out of context, making it seem as though Obama had praised Reagan’s policies, he turned sarcastic about getting two distortionists for the price of one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/opinion/23dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes,” he snapped at Hillary, obviously entrapped and pysched-out by the Clinton duo.

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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:36 PM
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17. "Two distortionists for the price of one"..
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 01:37 PM by zidzi
The clintons lying about Obama..who could foreseen this? bil in office and after office with his not supporting the War On Iraq when there's documented proof that he did support the War On Iraq? hilary doin' the bushit shuffle for her IWR yes vote and her vile kyl-lieman vote? Sometimes ya just gotta have a crystal ball.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 07:49 AM
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11. ugh. Dowd is nothing if not consistently vile
and she's gleeful in her malice. Add to that she's a lousy, lousy writer.
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:23 PM
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13. Dowd is just a jealous woman. She is angry that
she was not the one wearing Monica's blue dress. Again: Maureen (me wants all the men to myself) Dowd. She hates everyone that she can't seduce.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:43 PM
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19. But the blue dress she wanted to wear was for Bush I...
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:26 PM
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14. she sounds frustrated.
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:44 PM
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20. Can someone let her give them a blow job please?
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:35 PM
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21. Hey, how come none of you men volunteered???
:silly:
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smalll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:30 PM
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16. Wow. Bush really IS an irrelevant lame duck now -
Maureen has stopped whaling on him, and has turned her attention to the next Presidency. She knows Our Girl's going all the way. This is just forward-thinking columnization on MoDo's part. :shrug:
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 01:39 PM
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18. Good ol' Maureen looking out for the Democratic Party.
:eyes::puke:
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