Maureen Dowd up to her old tricks again
More personality-based drivel from the woman who wrote the narrative for the 2000 campaign's avoidance of the issues. Drudge and the Romney crowd are pushing this one heavily today.
Ms. Dowd never fails to disappoint the DC cocktail party crowd with her focus on the superficial. Memories of her hackneyed obsession with Al Gore's suits come to mind. Meanwhile, she depicts Mittens as as a strong figure who's been 'slapping' the president around:
The president who started off with such dazzle now seems incapable of stimulating either the economy or the voters. His campaign is offering Obama 2012 car magnets for a donation of $10; cat collars reading “I Meow for Michelle” for $12; an Obama grill spatula for $40, and discounted hoodies and T-shirts. How the mighty have fallen.
Once glowing, his press is now burning. “To a very real degree, 2008’s candidate of hope stands poised to become 2012’s candidate of fear,” John Heilemann wrote in New York magazine, noting that because Obama feels he can’t run on his record, his campaign will resort to nuking Romney.
It's hard to believe she gets paid to pass this garbage off as analysis of importance:
Maraniss’s book depicts Obama on an intense odyssey of self-discovery, moving toward defining himself less as a half-white man with white girlfriends than as a black man who wanted to be part of a black community.
His New York girlfriend, Genevieve Cook, told Maraniss that Obama confessed to her that “he felt like an impostor. Because he was so white. There was hardly a black bone in his body.” When she predicted that his future might be with a black woman — “That lithe, bubbly, strong black lady is waiting somewhere!” she wrote in her journal — he told her “he doubted there were any black women he would feel truly comfortable with. I would tell him, ‘No, she is out there.’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/dowd-dreaming-of-a-superhero.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=opinion
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