Maureen Dowd (NYT): A Tale of Two Fathers

[Dudley_DUright]

It's a classic story line in myth, literature and movies: a man coming into his own is torn between two older authority figures with competing world views; a good daddy and a bad daddy; one light and benevolent, one dark and vengeful.

When Bush the Elder put Bush the Younger in the care of Dick Cheney, he assumed that Mr. Cheney, who had been his defense secretary in Desert Storm, would play the wise, selfless counselor. Poppy thought his old friend Dick would make a great vice president, tutoring a young president green on foreign policy and safeguarding the first Bush administration's legacy of internationalism, coalition-building and realpolitik.

Instead, Good Daddy has had to watch in alarm as Bad Daddy usurped his son's presidency, heightened its conservatism and rushed America into war on the mistaken assumption that if we just acted like king of the world, everyone would bow down or run away.

Bush I officials are nonplused by the apocalyptic and rash Cheney of Bush II, a man who pushed pre-emption and peered over the shoulders of C.I.A. analysts, as compared with the skeptical and cautious Cheney of Bush I (who did not even press to march to Baghdad in the first gulf war, when Saddam Hussein actually possessed chemical weapons).

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/opinion/12DOWD.html

[The Zanti Regent]

1. You gave us this nightmare Ho Do

Until you apologize to Al Gore and the Clintons, kindly shut up!

[Sagan]

2. Amen, Zanti

MoDo doesn't have much room to complain. I notice that she has never addressed her own fawning support of the Chimp during the election.

[pretzel4gore]

3. if the news media did their job

bush would never have gotten near the WH ...and dowd was a front line bushwacker for years...

[The Zanti Regent]

6. Whoreen didn't have her mind on her job

Remember--she was dating Mr OxyContin

[burythehatchet]

9. NO F*****G WAY !!!

[Skittles]

8. you are correct

Maureen played the major media whore; now she's seeking to blame it on anyone else. :puke:

[soleft]

4. Disgusting the way she takes all the responsbibility off *

Maybe if he weren't a fundamentalist freak he wouldn't be suspectable to apocolyptic policies.

[The Zanti Regent]

7. Yes, but she still bashes Gore and the Clintons

If the SCREW YORK TIMES had ANY credibility, the would have fired her.

Instead, I still believe they will fire Krugman.

What a piece is shit the SCREW YORK TIMES is!

[Maccagirl]

5. What all of you have said

and then some!!! MoDo will never be able to atone for what she wrought.