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AMERICAblog: Maureen Dowd is not happy with Hillary

  • devis1 · 1 year ago
    Geraldine Ferraro was spouting her BS on H&C that Obama supporters have to acknowledge Clinton's historic run at the convention. She evaded answering whether she would vote for Obama. And Hill's brother Tony Rodham met privately with Carly Fiorina on Monday.

    http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/0...
  • JHoot · 1 year ago
    Maureen Dowd at her best??? You must be kidding. Maureen Dowd is one sick woman and should have been sent packing years ago. The August 19 "piece" is total trash. Her "best" is always total trash.

    This Web site is doing great harm to the Democrats' chances for a win in November with this continuous Clinton hatred.
  • jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago
    I agree with you completely. Maureen Dowd sucks. She's not happy with Hillary? She's not happy with anyone, least of all herself.
  • martha · 1 year ago
    Good or bad, this column is many days old and most people that read this blog would have already read it. Lazy post.
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    John Zogby says:


    As much as voters may prefer the Democrats on most issues, McCain is winning the contest of defining who has the character and personality that swing voters expect in a president. Obama appeals to the mind. McCain goes for the gut.

    McCain's war record and well-established image as a maverick Republican make it tough for Obama to assail McCain the man. Obama's rhetoric this week shows he recognizes that his issues appeal must become more aggressive and emotional. With 48% of our poll respondents citing the economy as the most important issue, Obama is hitting hard at the GOP record on job losses. He clearly has work to do. Our Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday shows more voters trust McCain to deal effectively with economic issues.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Zogby's a self-promoting tool and perceptions change...
  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    Things just got more interesting...

    http://www.hyscience.com/

    The motion will be for an emergency temporary restraining order prohibiting Obama from running for president, and enjoining the DNC from nominating Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate.
    According to by Jeff Schreiber at America's Right.com:

    A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States.
  • JHoot · 1 year ago
    Oh yeah, no thanks for the link to that VERY (YAWN) "interesting" Web site.
  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    Yeah...I made the case number up...MSNBC blog reporting same story....
  • ezpz · 1 year ago
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    I honestly dont get the Dowd thing.. maybe its just me. I think its a D.C. kind of thing, you know written exclusively for the villagers.
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    RE: Obama -

    This is a guy that was supposed to be a game changer. This is a guy who was going to be the Reagan for the left. A guy who would be able to convince independents that progressives stance on issues are the right ones. He was supposed to be a champion who inspired progressives to evangelize him.

    Look how well Obama did when he proclaimed the "gas tax holiday" a gimmick. That's Obama's strength. Now look at him. His willingness to compromise on oil drilling. Sure it makes sense to compromise, but you don't proclaim your willingness to do so. You stand up and tell America that it's practically a hoax which won't lower their gas prices. But by saying he'd compromise, he's done himself damage 3-fold. 1 - his base gets bummed out. That's not good. Keep the base happy, just ask McCain. 2 - He's essentially admitted he's wrong. Not the case but it plays out that way. So he looks incompetent and has bad judgement. 3 - He looks like a flip-flopper. A same-old politician who will say anything to get elected.

    Obama had this in the bag. He's probably going to lose now. It's not because of the stupid book. It's not because McCain is playing dirty. It's because Obama, probably at the behest of the same campaign people who helped Gore and Kerry lose, listened to his advisers and erred on the side of being too cautious.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    I dont think hes going to lose, but he needs to smarten up and not listen to the DINOs in the the Democratic Party who want to "get along". This is war, and if you arent willing to fight and defeat the neo-con evil, then u need to get out of the way. Period.
  • ezpz · 1 year ago
    I caught a sound bite earlier of Hillary in Florida today.
    She said, paraphrasing, that she was working very hard for her "opponent". She used the word more than once in the short clip I heard and it was very strange.

    At first, I thought she was talking about McMansions, but then I realized she wouldn't be "working hard" for HIM......or would she?

    Then, Chris Mathews (I know) was questioning it too. Was it a Freudian slip? What is she up to?

    The consolation is that if she and her McKaniac followers are scheming to sabotage Obama, it will boomerang and only make him stronger, and will put the final nail in her political coffin.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    OK, OK so I've read the first couple of MoDo's overwrought sentences and I have to say the idea of McCain actually present in the Capitol, secret midnight meeting or no, is just too fantastical for reality based thought...
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Maureen Dowd is as phony as Clairol Red #3.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Rachel Maddow and her staff did a great job acting this column out on the radio
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    I smiled as I heard HRC gush with typically heavy-handed imatation self-modesty over her Obama campaigning...More than anyone else [ahem , among defeated contenders] in history says a woman who either bothered to check or decided to act as if she had.
    Its Bill 'n Hil's decision...play along and play along with gusto or oblivion with the Bush crime family.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    I've used up my slam Maureen Dowd quota for the month already so I think I'll keep my mouth shut right now.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    Obama needs a commercial about the draft gaffe McStain yesterday.

    He wants to stay in Iraq 100 years. to accomplish this he needs a draft. bet he isn't drafting his kids. and I don't want to hear that crap about him mishearing the question either. he gave too detailed of a freakin' answer in response.
  • KISSman · 1 year ago
    LOL I love that woman! She's so right on.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    Eight years ago, when Bush won, it was a time of the, greatest shame for America before the world. We elected a moron, idiot, imbecile, cretin to lead our nation and to be the leader of the free world. Now, this year, the Democratic candidate is perhaps the most sparkling, intelligent, articulate, charismatic person ever to run for that office. In contrast, the Republicans offer another national disgrace, arguably even worse than Bush. If McCain wins, we deserve every bad, foul, rotten, evil thing that he will do to this country though the world will not deserve the pain, suffering, death and famine he will impose on the world. How can we so disgrace this nation with another such shameful choice?
  • dad · 1 year ago
    out with the old. in with the new.

    2 or 3 or 4 against this 1 is a fair fight.
    when he wins, they are done.
    they fear. not him.
  • Smarmy · 1 year ago
    The Clintons are trying to SHOVE HILLARY DOWN OUR THROATS. They haven't the common good sense or grace to step aside. This is 'ambition' run amok. I'm now and always have been unimpressed with Hillary. Obama's camp needs to quietly but decidedly cut them [the Clintons] off at the knees.
  • kimbutgar · 1 year ago
    Meow, I forgot how catty Ms. Dowd is. I stooped reading her columns but this one is priceless. It is not too far off to think that Hillary has had some conversation with Mcsame about knee capping Obama. The Clinton's are anxious to get back into power and bury more of their secrets and make more deals. Obama oveutrmaneuered them and they are pissed. The polls this week worried me but there are a few things to think about. The economy is bad and usually the party who holds current presidency usually doesn't get rewarded in November plus if Obama continues to tie mcsame to wildly unpopular bush, mcsame will not become president. Plus Obama is running a basically organized and well run campaign versus mcsame's lobbyists running his. Also Obama has the energy to campaign endlessly and Mcsame get fatigued and has to take weekends off. Also if mcsame is such a brilliant candidate why are they running the attack ads so early to the point that they have gone overborad and look silly? And finally when his well known temper appears probably during the debates waatch for the fireworks and finally I can't wait for someone to bring up the Keating 5 and tie it in with the current foreclosure crisis and Phil Grams part in this current debacle. Obama is holding back. Mcsame is a pig and lipsticj doesn't make the pig more attractive it eventually wears off!
  • kimbutgar · 1 year ago
    stopped