Wednesday - December 13, 2006

Goofiest Editorial Of The Week

I look forward to each week’s editorial from Ms. Dowd in much the same way I look forward to the occasional visit to my proctologist. The two have a lot in common. I read Ann Coulter’s column each week for intelligent discussion of events based on facts. I read Maureen Dowd for ... no good reason other than the fact that I need to keep an eye on the loons at the NY TIMES.

I would really like to see the two debate each other ... in a WWE Smackdown type event. Maybe have Ann in a tight, black-and-silver thong bikini outfit and a skulls-head mask and Dowd in a pink frilly tutu with a teddy bear and a big yellow lollipop. Get me Vince McMahon on the phone - STAT! I think I’m on to something here. This could be big ....

Will Hillzilla Crush Obambi?
-- By MAUREEN DOWD
_{(NY TIMES) - December 13, 2006}

So the question of the moment is: Which would be a greater handicap in a presidential bid, gender or race? The answer will depend, of course, on how manly the woman, and how white the black. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama both straddle two worlds, trying to profit from both.

Despite her desire to seem far more experienced than her rival, Hillary’s role in high-level politics has been mostly that of a spouse — a first lady who felt that she got elected too. The Yale-trained lawyer had one pump in the “The West Wing” and one in “Desperate Housewives,” one foot in the world of hotshot alphas ruling the globe and one in the world of middle-age women humiliated by their husbands’ dallying with office cupcakes.

She won her Senate seat only after becoming sympathetic as a victim. And she still struggles with the balance between her Mars and Venus sides, sometimes showing her political steel and other times fetching coffee for male colleagues.

Senator Obama glides between the black and white political worlds. In New Hampshire on Sunday, speaking to nearly all-white audiences, the Harvard-educated lawyer looked utterly at home, dressing like a Wall Street banker on casual Friday and sounding as white as Lou Dobbs.

He quoted Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Brandeis with equal aplomb and wryly noted that when he worked rebuilding a black community on Chicago’s South Side, people there couldn’t pronounce his name and called him “Yo Momma.”

He admits that he talks to black groups with a different cadence, but says that’s because he’s picking up a different rhythm from the audience. He rejects what he calls the expected script for black politicians, “that for them to be authentically black they have to somehow offend white people,” as he told Jeff Zeleny in The Chicago Tribune. Mr. Obama rejects complaints from blacks that he’s not black enough; but as Mr. Zeleny noted, Hawaii, where the senator’s white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya met, and where he grew up and went to prep school, is not exactly the ’hood.

While Bill Clinton’s campaign pollsters used to worry that Hillary was not coming across as maternal enough, Senator Obama peppers his talks with remarks about being a father and husband. “I don’t miss diapers,” he confided to some parents at a book signing in New Hampshire, and later told reporters that he would decide whether to run with his wife, Michelle — “the smartest, toughest, funniest best friend that I could ever hope for.”

He was equally graceful reaching out to the female audience on “Oprah” and the male audience on “Monday Night Football,” when he did the opening skit this week on the audacity of hype, ending by putting on a Bears cap and flashing that killer smile. (The Windy City doubleheader must have made Hillary, a Chicago native, pea green.)

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- Read the rest at the NY TIMES (requires subscription - $49/year - and worth every Euro of it) ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/13/2006 at 01:36 PM   
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