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Maureen Dowd and Sista Spinstas: We Need a New Word for 'Old Maid'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyNew York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, an expert on all things unattached, ponders a question in a recent column about the Supreme Court nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan: When in a woman's life does her partnership status designation switch from "single lady" to "dreaded over-the-hill, out-of-luck, you-are-finished, no-chance . . . perpetual aunt"? There it is: the "old maid" card. We have never been able to retire the word "spinster" from our collective consciousness even though, in polite company, we've switched to the vocabulary term "unmarried." It's not being mateless ...
My Reggie Love Date: Race Didn't Matter, and FishbowlDC Doesn't Get It
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyIn the June issue of Marie Claire magazine (on newsstands now) I write about a set-up courtesy of one Maureen Dowd -- yes, that Maureen Dowd. "I've got a guy for you. He's so hot, it's perfect." That guy just happened to be President Barack Obama's "body guy," or personal aide, Reggie Love (formerly of People Magazine's Hottest 25 Bachelors). It was the spring of '08 when MoDo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, "decided to take it upon herself to find me a man," I recount in Marie Claire. I was hesitant, of course. I mean how could the woman I'd helped with a computer ...
Barack Obama: The Man of Hillary Clinton's Dreams?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyEven with Bill Clinton fading into the background a bit these days, I don't think anyone has forgotten that the former president is still married to the secretary of state. And the current first couple still gives off a giddy 10th date kind of a vibe. So, why do columnists keep trying to set up Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?Maureen Dowd of the New York Times pens the latest of the Hillary-Barack marriage analogies, saying: "Barack Obama is the pretty thing who is taken with Hillary's serious, smartest-girl-at-Wellesley aura. In a funny way, he's the man of her dreams." ...
If Joan Rivers Had a Spot on the New York Times Op-Ed Page... She'd Be Maureen Dowd
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThe New York Times op-ed page is a cherished institution of political and economic discourse. Its current crop of writers boasts multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, including Nicholas Kristof and Thomas L. Friedman, as well as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.Other luminaries on the current roster include David Brooks, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert and Joan Rivers.Oh wait, strike that last one. Checking our notes, it appears that last one is actually named Maureen Dowd, although you'll admit her column today about Michelle Obama's biceps made it pretty easy to confuse the her with Joan.Here's Dowd's take on ...
Maureen Dowd Hits Obama: That Didn't Take Long!
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe honeymoon appears to be drawing to a quick end for Barack Obama. Most of us expected him to bask in the glow of media adoration for quite some time, but after the implosion of Tom Daschle, some in the press seem to have decided that it's time to put down the pompoms, at least, temporarily. With cabinet picks dropping like flies -- and new mini-scandals popping up every day -- it appears they have finally hit a tipping point. They love Barack, but not as much as they love a good storyline (and their own credibility) -- so some are beginning to turn on him. Case in point: Maureen Dowd's ...
Obama Overseas Fundraising Story is Fake
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere is a fake story going around the internet, in email inboxes, and in the comments sections of these very pages, that says that a big chunk of Barack Obama's donations are coming from overseas, particularly the middle east. The story even has a Maureen Dowd byline, dated June 29, and some feature a photo of the New York Times columnist. The Obama campaign has been dogged by this type of smear during the entire campaign, and just when one lie is mostly stamped out, another pops up in its place. While the appearance of a byline may seem like ironclad proof of authenticity, I would advise ...
Turnabout is Fair Play
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe latest "dust-up" on the campaign trail is providing us with yet another example of why Barack Obama is not your run-of-the-mill, Democratic punching bag. Specifically, it is his ability to turn a negative into a positive that distinguishes him from such political casualties as Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry. Who else could survive such controversies as Reverend Wright and a truly regrettable choice of words used to describe the working poor, and somehow turn these gaffes into opportunities?Mind you, not everyone will see it this way. Hillary Clinton's argument -- that the GOP will ...
Remaining Elite Dems Will Break for Obama
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyIn her column Sunday Maureen Dowd quotes an anonymous leading Democrat who describes the race for the Democratic nomination by saying, "It's like one of those movies where you think you know the end, but then you watch with your fingers over your eyes." The end of this movie that we think we know is this: Obama has the delegate math on his side and looks poised to prevail. Yet, Hillary Clinton continues to doggedly entreat the super delegates into supporting her campaign based on a number of arguments that make varying degrees of sense. The problem for Clinton is that she does not have the ...
'Two White Liberal Guilts'
By Justin Paulette - Politics Daily"People will have to choose which of America's sins are greater, and which stain will have to be removed first. Is misogyny worse than racism, or is racism worse than misogyny?" Whose views of the Democratic electoral process could be so blighted and narrow as to regard the contest so? None other than the New York Times' own Maureen Dowd. "As it turns out," Dowd laments, "making history is actually a way of being imprisoned by history. "With Obama saying the hour is upon us to elect a black man and Hillary saying the hour is upon us to elect a woman, the Democratic primary has become the ...
Obama Finally Zings Hillary
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyIt only took Barack Obama nine months but he finally came up with a way to counter Hillary Clinton's thinly veiled criticism that "this is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for."In what Maureen Dowd of the New York Times called a "zinger feathered with amused disdain", Obama retorted that notes that "My understanding was that she wasn't Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don't know exactly what experiences she's claiming."Obama's advisors must have been high-fived after that one. Finally, the Illinois Democrat has said what he should have said months ago. ...
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