Maureen Dowd Berates Obama While Senators Durbin and Boxer Want Us To Kiss-y The Prez and Make-y Better
By Ani on February 7, 2009 at 3:30 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Obama's Neuroses
(bumped up from Thursday late evening)
U.S. Senators are asking us to “thank President Obama for his [two weeks of] public service” while in her latest opinion piece, Well, That Certainly Didn’t Take Long, Maureen Dowd takes Obama to task for his arrogance. Cognitive dissonance anyone? Ms. Dowd writes:
It took Daschle’s resignation to shake the president out of his arrogant attitude that his charmed circle doesn’t have to abide by the lofty standards he lectured the rest of us about for two years.
What happened to the McDowd love fest for Prez Obama? Gee, Mo, I bet Hillary’s starting to look pretty good to you about now. Clueless leadership sitting in front of the hoi polloi of newscasting to refreshingly, but frighteningly, offer a mea culpa about Daschle:
Unlike W. and Dick Cheney, who heroically resisted acknowledging their historically boneheaded mistakes, President Obama summoned a conga line of Anderson, Katie, Brian, Chris and Charlie to the Oval Office to do penance, over and over.
“I think I messed up. I screwed up,” he confessed to Couric.
He told the anchors that the man who helped make him president, Tom Daschle, had made “a serious mistake” by not paying taxes on a car and driver….
Mr. Obama admitted that “ultimately it’s important for this administration to send a message that there aren’t two sets of rules. You know, one for prominent people and one for ordinary folks who have to pay their taxes.”
Uh, yeah.
Before he recanted, his hand forced by a cascade of appointees who “forgot” to pay taxes, his reasoning was creeping perilously close to that of the outgoing leaders he denounced in his Inaugural Address: that elitist mentality of “we know best,” we know we’re doing the “right” thing for the country, so we can twist the rules.
Wow, Mo. Everyone campaigning for Obama had a ‘we know best attitude,” telling us we had to vote for him even though his resume was paper thin. Don’t worry. Be happy.
Someone needs to explain how the likes of Dowd, or any of Brian, Katie, Charlie, George S., the late Timmy, Chris Matthews, any of them who have been around politics as long as they have, could possibly have fallen for this splendid piece of marketing.
Ms. Dowd then talks about President Obama’s “high standards”:
Betrayed by their bankers and leaders, Americans were desperate to trust someone when they made Barack Obama president. His debut has left them skeptical about his willingness to smack down those who would flout his high standards or waste our money.
High standards? This lofty talk was never backed up by anything. Certainly not his twenty years in the unfortunate cesspool that is Chicago politics. Perhaps his staff thought he could get away with a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ attitude. The press, including Ms. Mo enabled him to do so. And you can never convince me they didn’t know it was the height of recklessness to do so.
Ms. Dowd rightly points out that “Companies that have gotten bailouts continue to make a mockery of taxpayers” by spending untold millions on disgraceful recreational junkets for their higher ups. What will Obama do about this? While I don’t think we should get into salary setting for the private sector, if you come with your hand out – you better show me you are using the money responsibly. Or that hand should be lopped off. Can you imagine a friend coming to you saying they are in dire straits and you lend them $2000 so they can pay their bills for the month – then you find out they blew it on caviar and champagne? Where is the outrage. A snarky column, Maureen? Is that it?
Dowd is merely an example of the willful blindness exhibited by all but a few press and pundits. She complains that President Obama should have cut the pork in the stimulus package that the Republicans and some Democrats are rightly complaining about. How could she, or anyone, possibly think that a man we spent almost 2 billion dollars electing – one who thought the tit was ever-flowing – would have any notion of fiscal discipline or holding anyone else’s feet to the fire. He relegated putting the initial package together to none other than Nancy Pelosi. Hell, he just successfully confirmed a man who cheated on his taxes as Treasury Secretary.
The title of Ms. Dowd’s piece is most interesting. “Well, that certainly didn’t take long.” Could the bloom be officially off the rose for her as well. Just like it was for many of us a year ago.
Dowd irreverently comments on his need to escape the White House after two weeks there to hang out reading a story to a bunch of school kids to make himself feel better.
Senators Dick Durbin and Barbara Boxer are also trying to help him feel better by asking us all to sign “thank you” letters to our new President as we speak. No, I kid you not. The text follows:
Dear Friend,
As Barack Obama begins his term as the 44th President of the United States, please join me to thank him for his public service, and offer our best wishes as he guides our nation through these challenging times!
Please click the link below to add your name to Dick Durbin’s Inaugural Card to Barack Obama.
Thank you!
Forgive me, but what public service are we thanking him for? He’s been in office two weeks! Does he really require this kind of stroking and adulation on a constant basis?
Yes, he’s had a rough couple of weeks. But who wouldn’t, walking into this disaster of a situation. Surely, I would not want that job. But he did. Very badly. So he shouldn’t complain about it now. He knew what he was getting himself into – or at least pretended to.
Do we need to send him thank you, feel better letters – like a teacher giving a kid a gold star? The comparison is terrifying.
I hate to keep harping on this. Well, actually, I’m lying. I lurv to keeping harping on this – do you think anyone would be sending little consoling missives to ‘President Hillary Clinton’ right about now? No. But she probably wouldn’t expect or need them. She’d just put her head down, plow forward and keep doing the job. As she would be expected to do.
Well, I am putting all these types on notice: every single one who trashed Hillary in favor of the man with training wheels, every one who stood silent as she was unfairly dragged through the mud and caricatured while he received a free pass:
None of the pundits and reporters, and NONE of the politicians who staked their reputations backing him better turn their backs on him. EVERY LAST ONE BETTER STICK BY HIM TILL THE BITTER END. They stuck us with a man whose own wife rightly said “it’s too soon, he hasn’t done anything yet,” but still they trumpeted his name from the highest hill. They better NOT criticize him now in a feeble attempt to stay relevant.
“McDowd,” as President Obama liked to call her, made her bed. Now let her lie in it.
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Who gives a shit about Dowd or all the other jackasses who forced this a piece of crap excuse for POUS on their country.
This is not about caring about Dowd — but hopefully the anger you, we and many others feel toward her and her ilk for so heavily influencing the process will motivate us all to keep writing to the networks and papers, complaining to advertisers, producers, shutting off the media, tanking their ratings — you get the drift. I know I and many others have. That movement needs to grow. We aren’t bringing this up just to rant.
If we just say who gives a sh*t, then we will get more of the same. I surely don’t know if a grass roots movement will make a difference either, but I would rather take charge of myself by doing that than doing nothing.
What say you?
It’s a rhetorical question, but I added a question mark in the update for those who want something to answer.
It’s way too late for the fawning Aholes to reverse the damage. stinky’s election to the WH will cause more harm than anyone can possibly imagine. It’s a no win situation. Choosing an incompetent, apologetic, neophyte as a “leader” will only lead to disaster, no matter whether you start out from a good, solid standing or a difficult one.
We should all write a letter to Durbin and Boxer saying we could have had a Clinton instead on an Obozo.
Yessss, please!!
so tell me something I don’t know?
also rhetorical
I said it around a month ago about Ms. Dowd. Something makes me think that she had money invested with Bernie Madoff and has taken a “hit”. Plus her employer, NYT, is tanking and hundreds of millions of dollars in the red. I cannot imagine that the maintenance and upkeep of her Georgetown town house can be met just with the proceeds of her book “Do We Really Need Men”?
Payback is a bitch there Ms. Dowd!
Glad to know that the Times is so far in the red. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of twits. Is a bankruptcy in the future; maybe BO will bail them out for Caroline’s sake.
Who gives a shit about Dowd or all the other jackasses who forced this a piece of crap excuse for POUS on their country?
The bloom is off the rose for many people who even voted for the idiot. And we are, what? How many days in? Can you imagine how awful this is going to be in a year, if he makes it that long? This is a joke.
For Ms. Dowd and all these other pundits, it’s too little, too late. They lost all respect when they failed to do what the press [even columnists] are suppose to do: tell the truth.
The “thank you” letter request is just too, too precious, even for the Precious One. Two weeks and he needs hugs?
Pathetic. Guess he better keep huddling with the inner circle, telling him what “a great job he’s doing.”
Two weeks. He’ll be shooting up or snorting after two years.
God help us all!
Two weeks. He’ll be shooting up or snorting after two years.
ROFLMAO…You mean he quit?
You’ve got a point, Alexis! :0)
The good news is that he just cost HIMSELF more money by imposing that higher tobacco tax to give immigrants free health care. What a masochist!
As far as I know this is the first “sort of” negatives about Mr. Perfect backed up by no credentials, no accomplishments, or anything else. I don’t think there is much chance he will be abandoned any time soon by the likes of Katie, Brian, Charlie, Chris, George S., Anderson, etc. Certainly, nothing should be read into Maureen Dowd’s negativity toward him because negativity is the hallmark of every column she writes.
Even if they decide they can no longer glowingly support this beginner they are responsible in large part of helping elect, they can’t admit to being wrong either.
As refreshing as Obama’s “I screwed up” comments were taken to be, in that town, a cardinal rule of politics is never admitting to saying, being, or doing anything wrong. Obama will no doubt live to regret his nieve foray into trying to appear confident enough to admit an error in judgement when judgement is what he ran on. There was nothing else to run on.
But as someone pointed out in the last couple of days, it wasn’t Obama who screwed up, it was the people in charge. He is NOT in charge. He will eventually be in charge because he will finally get enough of Pelosi, Reid, Emanuel making the calls when *he won*, his favorite, childish retort.
He is really not the puppet type, regardless of his lack of readiness for his new job. They will all find themselves under the bus just like Wright, JJJr, and now Daschle. Don’t forget, he is an expert user until he gets what he wants. He can walk away and not look back.
But Pelosi is already under the bus. LOL! (A must read.)
http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/05/rahm-throws-pelosi-under-the-bus-to-save-stimulus-bill/
well i sensed that pelosi was under the bus and it can’t be soon enough for me.
I posted this earlier…My friend up in San Francisco says that Pelosi and Obama are at each other’s throats. He blames her for the pork fat crappy bill that is making him look bad and is berating her. She is screaming she regrets getting him elected. Apparently it’s pretty bad. Well, I can’t stand Obama, but if those buffoons throw Pelosi under the bus the country benefits and has a slightly better chance of surviving. I have no idea who voted in this Pelosi mess, but reading that article from trixta and the Peggy Noonan article that jangles pointed us to, it seems like she is next to go. Can’t wait to see her fly out of DC on her electric broom.
Nancy Pelosi has been one of the biggest disappointments of all, for many reasons, these past several years. While she was house minority leader and could do little more than bite Bush in the arse with her statements, she landed all her punches. When she became Speaker and we took back the majority, suddenly it was all kissy face and she accomplished nothing. No oversight.
She needs to be relieved of her Speakership. And quickly. Her lockout behavior is a disaster. That is not the example the “new leadership” wants to set of putting something of this magnitude together behind closed doors and then passing it without one bi-partisan vote.
She is the biggest reason we do not have Hillary as President now, in my view. She did everything in her power to undermine Hillary behind the scenes and on every talk show as well.
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I believe he does. Now that the swooning crowds are not his daily experience, he is forced to watch himself alone in front of a giant TV screen for a hit. That picture made my skin crawl. The man is not healthy.
Thanking the loyalists at the “retreat” he puffs up his ego again, thanking them for giving him the opportunity to fly (my God, how many hundreds of miles?) on Airforce One. He was so full of himself, it was embarrassing. Yelling that “spending is stimulus”, he ranted on and on.
Maureen’s heros have a short shelf life.
yes, his body language, the way he was walking when he got off the plane, total arrogance. Can’t stand arrogance.
I could give two shits what Dowd thinks, she’s another media whore just like the other far left liberals. Next…
He believes his little “eating crow” show about screwing up and then apologizing solved everything, the way his famous race speech about Wright seemed to solve everything for his many bots.
It’s going to be old. Too many more of these public admissions of imperfection and all the Kool Aid effects will start wearing off much faster.
I also notice his total arrogance every time I catch a glimpse of him on t.v. I can’t watch too long because I can’t stand the way my skin crawls when I catch those glimpses.
The man is a scumbag. Always was. Always will be. Can you imagine serving your country in uniform abroad, knowing that your fellow citizens chose this scoundrel over John McCain as your commander-in-chief? God save the USA.
Well, Andrew, the military folks were split on Obama and McCain. The military is usually overwhelmingly republican. However, the military has many AA’s who were for him 100% just like here. The rest of them were more likely McCain voters.
Remember when he went to Iraq, the AA service men and women were salivating at the sight of him. The reporting on his visit made it sound like BO was the favored candidate. But the support broke down along racial lines that was not reported.
68% of the military backed McCain. This from a Marine who had the numbers from military publications.
He is at the height of his pathological liar syndrome. Laura saved us by keeping Bush under her watchful motherly care all the time. Michelle will just throw him to us with vengeance.
I am convinced that now he is so enamored with the TV screen that he is deliberately trying to horde the news day with his presence. It time to take prayer classes to learn how that is done.
Yes, I agree. His constant need to be on camera is one reason it seems he’s been in office for at least a year rather than 2 weeks. Now that’s torture.
I have often admired Barbara Boxer in the past. But I unsubscribed from her emails a short time ago because I couldn’t stand the love fest for O.
Dowd–I forgot about her a long time ago.
Ani, thanks for the determination to follow those who foisted this “abomanation” on us and hold them accountable. I am with you all the way.
diana, i unsubscribed after this last one asking me to sign the thank you letter to PITO. i just couldn’t take any more of that crap showing up in my inbox.
I, too, became disillusioned with Barbara Boxer because she was apparently “uncommitted” in the primary. She sure didn’t speak up for Hillary in those dark days. Since she is distantly related to Hillary by marriage of her brother or sister to a family member of Hillary’s, you would have thought she would have been a vocal Hillary supporter not to mention superdelegate.
A couple of weeks before the end of the primaries, Boxer was interviewed. When asked about who she thought would win, Boxer hung her head in sorrow and said, “I’ll just be glad when it’s over. It is very painful watching two friends go at each other like this.”
Then when it was over, she was asked if she thought Hillary had been a victim of sexism or had she ever personally had sexism used against herself, she said, “No” to both questions. That was the end for me.
Good points. I, too, was very disappointed in Boxer. She has lost me.
Oddly enough, I was never that enamored of Feinstein but found a new respest for her because she was one of the only ones to mention the sexism and stood for Hillary till the end, even begging off of attending the Convention, using the excuse of an injured ankle.
Please explain to me how this shithead can be tired of the WH after being there for only two weeks, when that’s the place he’s been preaching us he’s totally qualified and capable to occupy over the last four years. This country is totally, to put it in stinky’s own words, “screwed up”.
Please explain to me WHO said he is tired of the White House???? Maureen Dowd? who cares what she says…she is a columnist who, now that he is in the White House, is going to go negative on him every time she can - and what he says to a goup of 3rd graders? kidding around? The man never said it was too much for him, he never even indicated he was tired of it - quite the contrary! He tried to woo the republicans and it didn’t work - so forget it, he is coming out on top. those who refuse to do anything are the losers - the Republicans.
How you can twist and turn everything he says, how he looks, and god only knows what else into such a hate-fest on our President is beyond me.
Hillary was not thrown to the ground in all this. she ran a lousy campaign and lost fair and square. what bitter losers you all are - must be nice to be so ARROGANT that reality kills you to recognize it.
He’s not our “President…” Let’s start there. He’s not yours either by the way.
Drink the Kool Aid and get drunk. It’s going to be a long one for you Bots.
He said it to the school children when he visited a Washington elementary school on Tuesday, I believe.
I’m only bitter when theft is involved. He and his hired thugs from ACORN showed me everything I needed to know. Now the Dims want us to pay them ahead of time for the next campaign. They are involved with voter registration fraud. How in hell are they qualified to get any money from the government?
Naomi - Obama himself said he was tired of the WH and had to escape. This was when he visited the grade school a couple of days ago. It was all over the news. Sorry you missed it.
I did not miss it, in fact I mentioned that in my post-that a stupid joke he makes to third graders is not something I would take as a serious comment-he was trying to be funny.
Nickoury-such a wit you are!! Your mother must be so proud.
Naomi - Remember, way back during the primaries when Obama said “words matter”? As president he needs to select his words carefully. He is no longer a community organizer.
Excuse me Naomi, as stinky, your immortal savior would probably say, “I’m sorry, go screw yourself”.
“Hillary was not thrown to the ground in all this. she ran a lousy campaign and lost fair and square”
Her campaign was so bad, she won the popular vote, the only vote that counts as far as I’m concerned!!
Oh yeah, fair and square, how exactly do you define “fair and square”? Obot terminology defies all logic and reason. Brain dead and arrogant, just like your leader. Quelle surprise!
Wonder if they had a copy of “My Pet Goat”?
Hey Naomi, go f yourself.
Man do the trolls have nasty personalities. I wonder why they never heard that “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar” saying.
Sorry AM,
Anyone who says “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar” has never spent a few moments watching a steaming pile of Bullshit!
The trolls are baaaack!
Lousy campaign? I’ll tell you what. You run a campaign where you are outspent 3 to 1 with the press kissing your opponents behind every day and NOT vetting him whatsoever while feeding you a crap sandwich daily, letting him smear you and no one stands up to correct the record, with your own party stabbing you, the more qualified candidate, in the back — come up with a tie — since she won more popular votes than him and he led by a couple of dozen pledged delegates by the time all was said and done, then you couldn’t even get a real roll call at the convention and THEN you tell me who LEGITIMATELY ‘lost.’
So sorry, Ma’am, but your revisionist history is not acceptable here.
You tell it, Ani. And since you didn’t mention misogyny, I will. 0 got nothing but slack because he was black. Clinton got nothing but stick because she was a “chick.”
Amen, Andrew P. That part is something the media will not talk about, but it is an unfortunate and unfair truth.
Ani-not a couple of dozen delegates.
I’m told when the numbers were counted, it was 4, 4 delegates. He managed to win by 4, given the cheating that was prevelant in the caucus’s
that seems pretty incompentent on O’s part, the numbers weighted to caucus states vs primary states ie ID had more delegates than NH. I’d say it wasn’t so much won as stolen.
I am being generous — the number 4 was reported here by Peniel Cronin but it is determined by the way Michigan is counted in not giving him any there — other sources have the number actually varying between 4 and 17 or 59- depending on whom you believe, or whose math you use re Michigan. The green papers has it at 17.
Even if it were as much as 59 — which I sincerely doubt — the fact is neither of them had enough to take the nomination and it should have been decided at the convention. So, yes, it was stolen.
I think the real number difference was under 20 in any case. Statistically insignificant.
Ani, she did neglect to send busloads of her own thugs into states like Wyoming to storm the caucuses–sheer incompetence! /snark
Right on, Ani.
I will never accept the revisionist history being peddled by the O-bots, and I am very worried about a man who apparently is so narcissistic he needs constant ego gratification.
Man, this is bad. Really bad.
Even though I saw it coming from a mile away, I have to say that I didn’t want Obama to wreck himself — I just wanted him to bow out, and get out of Sen. Clinton’s way. He didn’t, and he has chosen the bed in which he now lies.
Unfortunately for us, we are now tied to that bed and need him to be much more competent than he is capable of being . . . this is not a good situation, and I don’t see it becoming much better any time too soon.
Articles like yours, Ani, make things more tolerable, and for that I thank you. Keep it up.
Uh, Naomi, this is not the group for you to lecture about how BO won *fair and square*! You wouldn’t understand it if we tried to explain it to you.
While Hillary’s campaign could have been better run, she at least ran an honest campaign. BO, on the other hand, didn’t run his campaign. Neither did the Chicago 4 run it other than playing the race-baiting, race-card tactics and helping with the caucus fraud. His campaign was run by the DNC, the Democratic Party leadership, the news media, Move-On.Org, and the CA venture capitalist company in Nancy Pelosi’s district that raised all that questionable money.
It’s hard for the people here to have an ounce of respect for BO when we watched microscopically as it unfolded. When you are up on what really happened, maybe we can talk.
Better yell at Barky then because HE said it http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090203/D964BKD01.html With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated compound of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday. They ended up at a Washington public school, greeted by children who could not care less about the collapse of a Cabinet secretary nomination.
“We were just tired of being in the White House,” the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School.
Naomi, you are clearly clueless. During the primary, Clinton won more Democratic primary votes than Obama. She ran such a “lousy” campaign that Obama had to resort to stealing to take the nomination from her!
Obama won the nomination solely because the DNC gave him 55 delegates from “uncommitted” votes in a state where he wasn’t even on the ballot!
Please do yourself a favor, Naomi, and stop humiliating yourself in public. In time, you’ll realize what an idiot you have been. This might be a bad sign for you:
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, Naomi:
“plus ça change, plus c’ est la même chose”:
“The more things change, the more they remain the same.”
- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4530042/Cold-warrior-Henry-Kissinger-woos-Russia-for-Barack-Obama.html
nickoury…the lazy creep doesn’t want to work, he just wants to campaign. He’s over America and its problems and on to finding the money to buy the White House for him in 2012.
He is tweaking his campaign for president of the world.
Oh noooo…you had to bring that up. I will be driving the white porcelain bus all night thinking about our “world leader.” Yuck.
Or for president of the Universe!
His primary job has always been as a campaigner. Now he has to deliver until he can start his next campaign. Hmmmm, naw, he can keep campaigning and Pelosi and Reid will do the work for him.
Ani-
The post is right on once again. Does Michelle make him warm cookies and milk when he leaves the oval office every day at 3:30?
She was horrible to Hillary, and absolutely fawning over Obama during the primaries. I’m glad she is waking up, but damn her, and others who could not or would not see the light when it came to Obama. Thanks to the media, we are now stuck with a man who has no clue what it means to be the President. He wanted the perks and adulation, not the job. Hard work is alien to Obama, and each and every one of us will suffer due to his deficiences as a leader.
You’re absolutely right, Beachnan. The press [including Ms. Dowd] was complicit in the fraud and election of a weak-kneed, thin-skinned leadership, which is the Obama administration.
I am a life-long Democrat. And I am thoroughly disgusted and appalled. The Democratic Party committed political suicide on this one, and they lost me [and others] forever! Give it time. The Kool-aid is already beginning to grow stale and tasteless.
Never again will I vote a straight party ticket. From now on, it’s a candidate vote, period.
Must have a sickeningly sweet after taste…
I wouldn’t know, Annie. I never sipped it.
Thank God!
I’m with you Peggy Ann- I am a life-long Democrat, consider myself very liberal, have been on the frontlines, marching and protesting for all kinds of causes. I am appalled at how the Democratic Party and the other Democratic politicians (Obama, Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, Reid, Kerry…..) stood by and let the sexism against Hillary Clinton and accusations of racism against Bill Clinton, of all people, go on. For the 1st time I voted against the Democratic candidate…not because I agreed w/McCain, but, because I could not bring myself to be a part of what the Democrats were doing.
The day after the election I re-registered as an Independent…….How sad!!!!
I became a GDI on May 31st, never looked back.
look these media dicks all need something to oppose and take up the 24 wash and spin cylce. simple as that! it doesn’t matter that they might have adored him three months ago.
You know, Stodgie, I think you’re absolutely right. The slice and dice machines are going to come out because it’s “good television.” This is the same group of opportunists that sold the country on Bush as a “good ole boy, someone you’d like to have a drink with” [even though GWB is/was a recovering alcoholic].
One of the few things that I agree with Sean Hannity on:
The Fourth Estate is dead.
RIP. Long live the web.
How humiliating must it be to have a democratic majority in both the house and senate and your first bill can’t get enough votes to pass it. There are several problems:
1) It is not HIS bill - It’s Nancy Pelosi’s bill of
payback and the dem wishlist for the last 8
years.
2) He is having to defend Pelosi’s bill.
3) As Carl Rove said, “He is winging it”.
4) As Linsay Graham said, “He has not shown any
leadership in getting it passed and having
republicans over for lunch or cocktails is
not what Reagan and Tip O’Neill did to get
bills passed in a bipartisan effort.”
5) Finally, the media can’t find a leg to stand
on to defend the colossal failure of his
first big ‘thing’ that the so-called genius
has tried to do.
Woohoo, thank you Ani.
Maureen who? At least her column serves some purpose. Wrapping fish or lining a bird cage.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
It’s simple — the POTUS has embarrassed his enablers in the media this week. If he looks bad they, by extension, look bad. Many are probably having nightmares that we may actually have another arrogant neophyte leading the country, thanks to them. But Bush didn’t get rolled by his own partisans the way Obama already has.
Jeez, don’t any of his handlers realize how petulant it seems for he and his wife to say they needed to get out of the WH after only 2 weeks? Did they think every day would be Inauguration Day?
They’re only there for the parties.
Hillary was qualified to govern on Day One. She didn’t need on-the-job training like BO needs. And who is by his side whispering in his ear? Joe Biden!
Maureen Dowd has spewed out political nonsense and garbage for a long time - so much so that I threw in the trash a recent subscription offer from the NY Times. I’m sorry but I don’t buy her sudden “conversion” experience. I think she’s changing her “tune” to save her “job”.
True. There is no ‘real’ conversion on her part. As MoDo wrote to someone who e-mailed her about always trashing Hillary —
Shame on her.
However the wind is blowing, Maureen goes the other way - for kicks.
If this is an example of how he deals with domestic affairs I shudder to think what he will do when faced with foreign issues. He wanted the job, in fact bought and paid for it, and was enabled along the way by people who should have known better. These people, so long experienced in listening to utter bullshit spewing out of every poltician’s mouth were not able to see through this bullshit?
Bullshit!!
OT but BS anyway —-
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government overpaid for stocks and other assets in attempting to help financial institutions last year, a government watchdog said Thursday, taking further issue with the beleaguered $700 billion rescue program.
Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout funds, told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that Treasury in 2008 paid $254 billion and received assets worth about $176 billion.
High standards?
Was Ms. Dowd in a f’n coma when the rest of the world found out that Obama got himself a sweetheart land deal with a slumlord felon? Or that Obama’s wife got a $250,000 raise AFTER Obama funneled $1,000,000 taxpayer dollars to her employer? Or that Obama TWICE worked on Governor Blogo’s election campaign?
Wake the hell up people!
If you deliberately deluded yourself into believing that Obama is a squeaky clean saint, as Ms. Dowd has, then you have no one to blame but yourself, because there where plenty of us Internet loudmouths screaming at the top of our keyboards that Obama was a fraud.
“Hope” has turned out to be theft, and “change” has turned out to be a steaming pile of BULLSHIT on a plate! Soon these “Journalists/self chosen electors” will all be in a frenzied state of coprophagy while in one giant circle jerk and it will serve them right when they are thrown out by their own petards!
All misunderstanding stems from expecting Obama to DO anything. Barry doesn’t do anything and never has. That why Nancy is running things on this bill.
Also people have wondered why two weeks in, Barry seems tired already. Because Barry is an energy black hole. He takes it in, but he doesn’t give it out. Everything he’s going to do is in a future that never arrives. It’s always been that way though out his life, why would it be different now?
He hasn’t a first clue. His job has always been to just be pretty . Just thank God that Hillary is at State
“Barry is an energy black hole. He takes it in, but he doesn’t give it out. Everything he’s going to do is in a future that never arrives. It’s always been that way though out his life, why would it be different now?”
I think this is the most incisive capsule description of 0’s modus operandi that I have ever read. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks Ani.
By now most of us have watched the videos posted by SusanUnPC in her post [Updates] Lindsey Graham Goes at It Again on MSNBC http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/02/05/lindsey-graham-goes-at-it-again-on-msnbc/, in particular the one where we see Obama giving a speech regarding the stimulus package, and once again Obama cannot deliver without teleprompters. He literally cannot muster the passion to speak without the teleprompters even as he has warned of a CATASTROPHE should the government not act quickly to sign the stimulus into law. really pathetic… So is it fair to then watch Hillary in all her non-stop conferences with other world leaders, juggling the delicate balances, this strong and thoughtful diplomat, and not wonder:
Apologists are the bubbles that float Obama, over and over, and he is so fragile that his ego needs constant stroking, so his DNC friends Durbin, Boxer, and others appeal to us to help him feel good. From the Boxer email request:
I think this is unprecedented!
For the obot types that want to defend that Obama was only speaking to “gleeful” 2nd graders when he said “We were just tired of being in the White House,” I say no, he was speaking to the world because the room was full with the media, videotaping, so watch this and tell me what it reminds you of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkusim5hl4 hmm, My Pet Goat anyone? The failing economy, two wars, in particular, one going badly in Afghanistan, and a struggle to get stimulus package through Senate, having cabinet nominees with vetting issues…Iran launches satellite, American citizen kidnapped in Pakistan, rockets in Israel, Daschle giving up nomination, Kentucky ice storms - no FEMA, etc. and Obama is in a classroom full of adorable children who love and admire The One.
Now please consider watching SOS Hillary Clinton from earlier today http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1797019197/bctid10262374001
And last request to consider… this article Michelle Obama: Redefining first lady role, Avoiding Hillary Clinton’s missteps, she’s messenger in chief, mom in chief http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29031333/ because Michelle has it all over Hillary, of course. There is a nice picture of a younger Hillary in the article. So there you have it… Michelle is the MESSENGER IN CHIEF! Good Grief!
I guess the ‘messenger in chief’ is why she needs Presidential and Vice Presidential advisors on her staff…ugh.
Could you imagine if Hillary hired ex-Kennedy advisors on her staff? And they are claiming Michelle has just been an expert at avoiding Hillary’s mistakes?
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From the MSNBC link…
“Michelle Obama does not have an office in the West Wing as Hillary Clinton did, nor is she sitting in on Cabinet meetings, as first lady Rosalynn Carter did. But she has assembled a strong team of aides, some of whom advised Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.”
NBC’s Brian Williams and other news anchors were waiting for their interviews when Obama snuck off to the elementary school, really keeping the anchors waiting http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29003182#29003182
Imagine if the Clintons were that disrespectful to the media… hmm…
He HAD to run to that class room for an infusion of Barry love ….that’s how needy he is.
Help us
How hard is it for the SS er Secret Service to get good toot for Booger1 or whatever cute code name Stinky is using now?
At the rate Voldemort is imploding somebody better dry out “Ol’ Hairplugs” just in case. If you can stomach looking at him, you are seeing the face of someone who knows the game is up… the con has run out and he can’t leave. Two weeks.
un friggin’ believable
Tsk, tsk, Zeke. Are you calling our illustrious president “Stinky” because his initials are B.O.?
MeShrille is the monster in chief. Editing at msnbo is run by bots.
what Ms. Dowd can’t stand is the sight of Barry apologizing….for anything. She liked it when Dick Cheney didn’t apologized to the guy he shot in the face…indeed the victim apologized to Dick! That’s what Mo likes. Barry is not macho enough for her …well I could have told her that.
M Dowd…that drag-queen who has stayed much too long at the party. What a joke! She played a major role in putting, Mr. Barry Soetoro in the Oval Office.
She along with the lazy fat asses in corporate controlled MSM. They need to be held accountable for the mess that is Barry Soetoro. It was criminal what they did to SOS Clinton and Sarah Paliin, John McCain for the what??? Now, they have the audicity to point out the lack of leadership and experience of Mr. Soetoro??? WTF-those, fucking assholes, hypocrites! At least let them be honorable assholes and go down in the ship with Mr. Barry Soetoro.
Our country deserves much more than the mess which is going on in DC, our people are suffering, we need these hypocrites to focus on what is good for our country. Compromise, stimulate, now the Repugs, are all so concerned regarding outrageous spending-why didn’t they stop it when they were in charge? I am sick and tired of these morons, all of them! Especially those ASSHOLES in MSM.
SOS Clinton, she looks soooo good-a true American leader with leadership skills and wisdom! Can we say Prez, 2012!
audacity…..
While it is tempting to say, “I told you so…,” I suspect we are going to get pretty sick of these I-just-woke-up comments by journalists who helped the fraud, BO, get into the White House. Celebrity just doesn’t make it in the real world. I suspect that journalists and Hollywood types long ago lost the ability to differentiate between reality and fantasy and now we are all going to pay for their delusional self-interest and lack of integrity. The hangover on this party they have had for the past year is going to be painful for all of us….
opinions from the cheap seats
Mom and my Daughter BOTH remarked how it was “NICE to hear a Politician admit he’s wrong!” So they bought it.
But as Mom told ME about it, the first thing I said was, “REALLY hmmmm that CAN’T be good”
“Ooops sorry folks I MESSED up, I just bombed the shit out of Cairo”
or what ever
that can’t be good
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Who cares what this bitter lying self-centered idiot thinks or writes anymore.
Anyone want to bet on who takes more vacations in four years? Barry or Dubya? At least Dubya appeared to be doing something constructive that didn’t cost anything when he was chopping brush on the phony ranch.
How many people here have taken a vacation after 2 weeks on the job?
I don’t want him in that office! Ugh! I think we need to call hazmat for a Whitehouse cleanup!
We are so screwed! I think we should round up all the bots and jail them because truly, this kind of stupidity should be illegal!
I lurv to keeping harping on this – do you think anyone would be sending little consoling missives to ‘President Hillary Clinton’ right about now? No. But she probably wouldn’t expect or need them. She’d just put her head down, plow forward and keep doing the job. As she would be expected to do.
Sigh…she warned us over and over again. He is not ready. He does not understand the constant pressure of the WH, the “buzz saw” of special interests that do no care about namby-pamby talk of bipartisanship. She insisted we needed a fighter with a detailed understanding of governing. Now cheerleaders like Dowd are surprised? These people can’t really be THAT stupid–it is all about creating drama for their own careers. Meanwhile, the Emperor With No Clothes is stumbling around, running to Camp David, then elsewhere, because he is already restless in his new job. Can’t he run for King of the World or something? The presidentin’ is hard work!
The sour grapes are still here I see. Oh, well..
I find it hilarious that anyone thinks reporting on Maureen Dowd’s irresponsible flip flops (she is only one among many of these boobs), now that she is awakening from her “cool” induced stupor has anything to do with sour grapes.
Reality is reality. I wish him well, for all our sakes, but the man is in over his head and he is just doing the same ole Washington two-step. Nothing new to see here. As was pointed out the other day, “Scaring people is not leadership.”
Sour grapes, no. Deep concern for our future, yes.
Please–read SNARKby David Denby.
Like many product that the American people buy after a super-duper marketing campaign, after removing the “product” from the awesome packaging, we are again sorely disappointed that said product doesn’t meet the advertisers claims. Thanks alot Mr. Product…I mean Mr. President.
I couldn’t even believe it! If you are a liberal, and Maureen Dowd isn’t singing your praises, you’re in trouble for real.
America will turn on Barry O., just like they turned on Carter when they woke up and realized that he too was dangerous for America.
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