1 I read something about this on blog with a pirate flag a couple of days ago.

2 Mo needs to stop swilling the grain alcohol, it is making her delirious. She can afford good scotch now, I would think.

3 Modo, is mad because Barry's faults and Palin's strengths are out in the open for all to see. Sorry, Mo, no soup for you.

4 Dowd is an asshole. Always was and always will be.

5 NO!
Did I do that too, Waterhouse? I must have caught the virus from an ewok...

6

I'm sure Teh Won's true-believers never thought they'd have to lie this hard to make him look good.  Tough job.  Fortunately, they have lots of practice.  And then someone lets their frustrations slip.  Thanks, Mo! 

7 why didn't you include the quote where she calls him a "detached loner?"

8
A million little pieces?

9 AS the truth of these two,Palin and Zero, filters into the minds of peeps, P grows stronger and Z gets weaker.

10 Seven Days in May?  Jebus Mo, hyperbole much?

11 Palin kids - weird Alaskan/American names

Obama kids - weird Marxist/Russian names (Natasha suddenly called Sasha for Presidential campaign)

12

She nurtures her grass roots while he neglects his.

He's nurturing his grass roots just fine.

http://tinyurl.com/c3rxwv

 

13 OUch! That eddiebear post was vicious! But deservedly so! I never could figure out Althouse actually voting for Obama. Well, fangirl explains it, sadly.

14

I did an analysis of Mareen Dowd as the final project for my opinion-writing class in j-school (yes, they had a whole class on how to write an opinion column). My findings were that she was all snark and name-calling and very little actual, you know, <i>point</i>. I could not for the life of figure out how she merited a Pulitzer.

15

Are we sure LauraW's not teasing us and that was actually written by Obama?

16 Dowd is an idiot. She will morph into an old leather bag of bones similar to Helen Thomas in a few years.

17 Purple lips sink ships.

18 COUGHCOUGHSASHAMALIACOUGHCOUGH

Those are pretty benign for the "embrace your authentic blackness" crowd.  Esp. since Sasha is a Russian dimunitive...

I was stalking hobos in a cemetery Saturday, and in the 1990s-present Baby Garden I photographed headstones for Dy'Quelle and Ty'Quelle (presume stillborn twins), Qua'Shay, and Prince Jesus (my favorite).

There were some weird names in the 19th century presumably-white sections, too.  Elihu. Mather.  Temperance.

19
Obama is impressively complex


 Not really Mo

20 COUGHCOUGHSASHAMALIACOUGHCOUGH
Raaaaacist.

You know, when MoDo said "the kids with the weird names," what I heard was "the kids with the weird names who I'd like to molest."  MoDo is a closet child molester.
Just sayin'.

21

Impressivel complex?

Maybe to a barely-functioning retard.

Oh, wait ...

22 "Like Reagan, Obama is..."

Pffft!
Oh yeah, you fuckin' WISH, Mo.
You. Wish.

My hero is bigger than your hero.

23 "He struggles to transcend identity politics...."


He struggles about as hard as I struggle to transcend a life of vodka tonics, weed, and spinner chicks.

24 To put Reagan and Obama in the same light, in the same sentence, is abysmal.

NOT A FREAKIN' CHANCE, BO.

Putting him with the likes of Lincoln (remember the campaign?) is even sicker...

Wolf

25

Althouse has just gotten married.

Witnessing her perspicacity on Obama, I would expect that she picks husbands with far more care.

I just hope she doesn't wind up being dismembered and left in an abandoned trunk somewhere.

26 Modo is a cliche of the insufferable snark-o-matic elitist.  There is nothing unique about what she does at all.  By happenstance she has been given cache by a bunch of bitter latte sippers who print a newspaper, which she uses to expell the bile concentrated within her.  She's basically a piece of shit.

27 MoDo is just jealous that she can't get access to Sarah like I can.

28 You are a wise man Mallamutt....

29 Eddiebear was right on the money. I used to follow Althouse, can't read her anymore. She is not nearly as smart as she believes herself to be.

30

"detached loner?"

The man is a celebrity.  He nothing without his script, fan club and paparazzi.

31 23...I think this is a key question about B to the O...is he a bumbling fool?  A harden ideologue with sinister plans?  Are his "missteps" actually genius manipulations?  Is he incapable of coherent actions rather than just speeches?

A case can be made for either, but I think he is following a plan and it is "sinister" and he likely expects some blowback (KSM decision, for ex.) but doesn't care. 

He won, remember?

32 Obama's lack of apparent dynamism can be attributed to management paralysis. He is in a job far beyond his experience level. See the bit about the Afghanistan decision being behind 32 other priorities on some master list of things to do.

33 I could not for the life of figure out how she merited a Pulitzer.

A raised Catholic bashing the Catholic Church can get you to the top of many mountains.

34 Did Joanne just admit to going to J-school?

35 24

I think we were separated at birth, brother.

36 36 I could not for the life of figure out how she merited a Pulitzer. A raised Catholic bashing the Catholic Church can get you to the top of many mountains. Posted by: WTFCI at November 23, 2009 11:02 AM (GtYrq) -- But, in the end, not the most important one.

37

If only Obama would yell at Petraeus and McChrystal.

Odd place for Mo to set the bar, but whatever.

 

38 Another thing I don't get....all of these comparisons to Reagan, like they consider Reagan the standard, but the media hated Reagan.

It just shows me, they hate Palin even more since to them Reagan is now a positive vs SP.  And what are we told by the left about hate...it rises out of FEAR and IGNORANCE.

39

I vote for Obama is a low-level retard who is being managed by low-level-intelligence regular people, all of whom are committed radical socialists.  I have seen no spark of genius or even competence out of anyone in the Administration. 

The closest thing to smarts that I can attribute to them is rushing everything through so quickly. 

But that could also be attributed to a tone-deafness to the pulse of America so dizzying, it would take a freaking foreigner with no concept of what America is all about to try.

Oh, wait.

40 MoDo and Althouse remind me of all the broads I used to know who were part of the "Pump & Dump" club....as in, "waaaaaah, why didn't he call me, we connected on such a deep level, I thought he was my soul mate,  I thought he was different,  waaaaah!  Men are pigs!" 

Sorry, girls, but it was just a one-night stand.  Maybe, and I'm being kind here, a vacation/weekend fling.  Now...go find your underwear and do the walk of shame in your party dress.  He didn't leave you cab fare or even a nice farewell note.  Yeah, you look pretty ridiculous in that sparkly thing and those heels at 8 am, but you have no one to blame but yourselves, princesses.  At least wash the smeared makeup off first before you head out into the sunlight.  Have a little pride, ok?

You just better hope that your birth control worked.  I mean, you did use birth control, right? 

41 There is a theory going around that Obama is really the anti-Christ (according to the Hebrew transation of his name).  I disagree with this on the point that the anti-Christ would be much smoother and popular.  Obama is a bumbling fool and his popularity is mostly spin and lies perpetrated by the MSM.

42

1 I read something about this on blog with a pirate flag a couple of days ago.

Yeah, me too. 

43 Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny at November 23, 2009 11:07 AM (KWhJd)

Ouch, baby.

44 OT

Did anyone see the story of the kid in California who got beat up on "Kick a Ginger Kid Day"?  There's still hope for California.

45 Althouse lost me when she laid down for Obama.  What a schmuckette.

46 Of course, the other possibility is that both O'Dowd and O'bama are complete nitwits.

47 I disagree with this on the point that the anti-Christ would be much smoother and popular.

Smarter, too.

48

37: Yes, yes I did go to j-school. I did it because I was already hooked on blogs and I liked poking the establishment by writing papers about Pallywood and Rathergate and Evan Coyne Maloney. Luckily most of my professors were cool about it.

And then I got shit-canned from my first newspaper job out of school and wound up at a crap desk job (at least it's incentive to write that novel). I find the j-school experience comes more in handy for figuring out what's really going on in the world than anything else.

49
MoDo has a little mild criticism of her Teleprompter Jesus, but clearly she'd still delusional about the man. Consider:

"Obama so values pragmatism, and is so immersed in the thorny details of legislative compromises, that he may be undervaluing the connective bonds of simpler truths." Immersed in the thorny details of legislation? This, about the man who voted present 100+ times? Who has no legislation worth mentioning to his name? Who offered no stimulus package or medical package, but has been happy to leave the lawmaking to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi?

"He struggles to transcend identity politics ..." Really? From the guy who's notion of compromise is "I won"? The guy who meets union bosses and fundraisers, while General McChrystal has to beg for face time?

"Just like the disastrous and anti-intellectual W., this Visceral One never doubts herself. The Cerebral One welcomes doubt." The Thin-Skinned One "welcomes doubt"? Really? This, from a man who promised that his election would cause the oceans themselves to recede? This is welcoming doubt?

And note her advice at the end of the column - to tell Generals Petraeus and McChrystal to STFU, beause, of course, the Cerebral One (her term) welcomes their doubts so very much.

MoDo is still a liberal, which is to say, she is still detached from reality. This column, despite the few particles of criticism of Obama, is just one more proof of that fact.

50

>the Alaska quirkiness, the kids with the weird names.

typical Manhattan cultural prejudice, which is convinced there is no life west of the Hudson, with a bit of jealous female bitchiness thrown in

and hey, Maureen Dowd, you of the dessicated unused womb who has to cry herself to sleep each night clutching old copies of People Magazine featuring Michael Douglas on the cover, you bitter hag who secretly wishes she had one tenth the happiness Sarah Palin has, you self-loathing sexless loveless Lifeless black hole of loneliness... your brain is full of spiders you've got garlic in your soul...

 

ok I'm running out of steam- somebody pick up the ball and run with it

51 Obama couldn't carry Reagans jock. Sniff it maybe, carry...no.

52 I must have caught the virus from an ewok...

Posted by: lauraw at November 23, 2009 10:45 AM (r+Bvt)

I DO.NOT want to know how you caught it from him!

53 He needs to convey a more three dimensional person eh?  An actual three dimensional person is too much to ask for I guess.

If there was ever a two dimensional person, Barry is it.  All surface, zero depth.

54 you bitter hag who secretly wishes she had one tenth the happiness Sarah Palin has, you self-loathing sexless loveless Lifeless black hole of loneliness...

MoDo....Oprah....MoDo...Oprah...

55 I wouldn't go getting all excited or anything. I mean, it's not like she ever actually going to follow through to the obvious point.
This column is nothing more than the set up to claim--within the next month or so--that "he has changed!" She'll be back on the "he's the greatest ever, I'm so smart and objective. I've even gone so far as to 'criticize' him--so I'm super honest" self-gratification beat in no time.

56

but a serious question, based on the snippets of modo columns I've read over the years:

is everybody in NYC that bitchy and snarky? do new yorkers read her bilious scribblings and think, 'yes, exactly!'

57

"Just like the disastrous and anti-intellectual W., this Visceral One never doubts herself. The Cerebral One welcomes doubt."

Oh hurl.  I'm relieved I didn't read the actual article.  Plenty of material for bulemics.

58 Disastrous and anti-intellectual -- that is an oxymoron. An anti-intellectual is at a minimum going to maintain the status quo and avoid risk. It takes an intellectual to sally forth into a disaster.

59

the kids with the weird names


 news flash for MoDo Malia and Sasha ain't exactly mainstream American names either

60

OT

WaPo has a great article summarizing the contents of the stolen Global Warming Scientist letters. It is pretty damning stuff.

In a completely unrelated note Charles Johnson still is pretending they do not exist. Instead he's decided to move forward with his "Glenn Beck is a white supremicist" story, which revolved around the fact that some dude on a message board at Stormfront said he likes glenn beck. That's right, a racist says he likes glenn, ergo glenn is a racist. This is far more important that Scientists threatening science journals to not accept submissions from man made global warming skeptics so that the Scientists can then impune the skeptics for not having their papers pier reviewed.

 

Sorry to bring CJ up, but i after Ace pointed out that he was completely ignoring the e-mails, I have been visiting his site to see his reponse to such obvious evidence against GW scientists motives and honesty.  Like i said above, CJ has decided to go to his fall back plan which is an "everyone is a closet(or open) racist offensive.

61

Disastrous and anti-intellectual -- that is an oxymoron.

That's exactly Martha Stewart's claim about Palin.

62 Disastrous and anti-intellectual -- that is an oxymoron. That's exactly Martha Stewart's claim about Palin. Posted by: katya at November 23, 2009 11:28 AM (5Z2N5) -- I thought she was talking about W.

63

Obama is impressively complex but he seems static.

Funny how the ability to spout a bit of college sophomore Niebuhr and sharp pants creases can fool a supposedly intelligent Lefty into thinking you're "complex."

64 Malia and Sasha ain't exactly mainstream American names either

As I pointed out, those aren't weird names at all compared to other black children. What MoDo meant to say was "white children with weird names.  Boy."

Complete ignorance of anything that happened in America before she was 10, like all liberals, if she really thinks "Willow" is "weird." 

65 Zero is about as complex as a doorknob, and Dowd is about as smart as one.

66
"Impressively complex" is liberal speak for can't make a decision

67 Just keep pimpin' Palin. She's dreamy.

68

Disastrous and anti-intellectual -- that is an oxymoron. That's exactly Martha Stewart's claim about Palin. Posted by: katya at November 23, 2009 11:28 AM (5Z2N5) -- I thought she was talking about W.

Oh.

69

Speaking of Sarah Palin did anyone notice the doctors on 60 Minutes last night pimping hard for death panels?

70 Let's not all give each other blow jobs quite yet. There is no Reagan on the horizon, and my bet is that we won't have anyone approaching Reagan's stature for a long, long time.

Yes, it is good that the libs are turning on each other, but without a coherent alternative we are still fucked.

71 And when Althouse mentions that Obama is SPock, that should be an insult. I am not a Trekkie, but wasn't Spock always the second in line behind Kirk and never capable to fully ylead?

72 "As I pointed out, those aren't weird names at all compared to other black children"

These aren't "black" names.  They are Russian names.  Look up the names of Bill Ayers' kids.

73

And when Althouse mentions that Obama is SPock, that should be an insult. I am not a Trekkie, but wasn't Spock always the second in line behind Kirk and never capable to fully ylead?

Yes.  Plus, Spock is the one the Libs admire.

74

HeatherRadish


 Are you saying Plexico is a weird name?

75 Like Reagan, Obama is a bilaterally symmetrical biped. After that it gets shaky.

76 Hrm, baby name searches indicate "Malia" is Hawaiian. 

Doesn't matter.  Point is, neither "Malia" nor "Piper" is weird in the 21st century.  1960, maybe...

77 I could not for the life of figure out how she merited a Pulitzer.

Surely you jest!  She rated the big P the same way bullshit stinko movies like Milk won two Oscars, Obama wins a Nobel prize et all.

The fact is, none of these old time awards mean a damn thing anymore except that the winner is the current darling of the communist left.

I think conservatives should come up with a new award for the most stupid and PC casting of an old award to a worthless slime.

78 Serious Vitamin F deficiency there. (As in hasn't been screwed this century). Bitter hag.

79 Like Reagan, Obama is a homo sapiens.

Dammit Treacher, you stole my thunder.  You really ought to get your own blog.  And post on it.  And quit with the useless Twittering.  Tweeting.  Whatever.

80 Martin Malia is the author of the foreword to the English version of The Black Book of Communism.

81 As I pointed out, those aren't weird names at all compared to other black children"

These aren't "black" names.  They are Russian names.  Look up the names of Bill Ayers' kids.

Posted by: wHodat at November 23, 2009 11:47 AM (+sBB4)

 

I don't have access, spare me the time by informing Ayers kids names.

 

Boris maybe?

82 I'm anti-intellectual as well inasmuch as it means being opposed to intellectuals.  These preening jerks think that coursework that is little more than the Oprah Book Club with a tuition charge is intellectualism. 

These people who think so much of their brilliance would be humbled quickly in a class on linear algebra at a state school.  Hell, I'd love to see how they do in calc at a community college.

83 I'd be doing sex to it.

84 Dorhn and Ayers have two children, whom they named Malik (the Muslim name of Malcolm X) and Zayd. Zayd's namesake is Zayd Shakur, a Black Panther killed while driving the radical JoAnne Chesimard (a.k.a. Assata Shakur) to a hideout — the resulting traffic stop shootout ended in the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.

85 Similar to "[l]ike Reagan, Obama is . . ." I once saw Charlie Rangel begin an answer with "To be perfectly honest . . .".

86 <blockquote>Palin can be stupefyingly simplistic, but she seems dynamic. Obama is impressively complex but he seems static.

She nurtures her grass roots while he neglects his.</blockquote>

Palin cuddles after America elects her, while Obama blows his load in America's face, wipes his dick on the curtains, and steals $50 from America's wallet on the way out.

87 RFLMAO, I can just picture MoDo with the bed spins.  You know, where you're thinking, I'm not really that drunk, I'm just a little dizzy....

88

"But unlike Reagan, he doesnÂ’t have the acting skills to project concern about whatÂ’s happening to people."

That is, according to Dowd, Reagan didn't care about ordinary folks but was able to act convincingly like he did... whereas Obama not only doesn't care about ordinary folks, he can't even pretend to care about ordinary folks in a way that makes anyone believe him.

89 I've seen this piece touted as some sort of realization of Obama's flaws, but I just don't see it.  Her language is parsed so that the folks with flaws are us - for not getting him.  And there are plenty of digs at Palin, too.  Even the examples are telling.  Obama's are of the mind; Palin's are expressed using words that describe her appearance (wallows, warts). 

ItÂ’s time for the president to reinvent this formula and convey a more three-dimensional person.

She's uses CONVEY to indicate that he is 3D, but we aren't getting the message that he is. 

Palin can be stupefyingly simplistic, but she seems dynamic. Obama is impressively complex but he seems static.

Palin SEEMS dynamic -- she really isn't.  Obama SEEMS static -- he really isn't. 

She nurtures her grass roots while he neglects his.

Obama needs to be more liberal. 

He struggles to transcend identity politics while she wallows in them.

C'mon WALLOWS?  Could she be more obviously comparing Palin to a pig?

As he builds an emotional moat around himself,

Obama is in control.  He built the moat himself.  And, the moat is the problem, not Obama himself. 

she exuberantly pushes whatever she has, warts and all — the good looks, the tabloid-perfect family, the Alaska quirkiness, the kids with the weird names.

Palin has flaws.  Real flaws.  (The trouble is, she lists things that are not flaws.  To paraphrase IT people: they're features, not bugs.)

But you see, Obama's teen mom, his welfare queen illegal aunt, and his brother living in a shack... those are not tabloid material.  Those aren't flaws. 

90 MoDo.  What a fuckin' ginger.

91 I could not for the life of figure out how she merited a Pulitzer.

The Pulitzer folks were very very busy that year and contracted the job to the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

92 Palin cuddles after America elects her, while Obama blows his load in America's face, wipes his dick on the curtains, and steals $50 from America's wallet on the way out.

Dude, you owe me a keyboard.

93 Somewhere in an expensive NY townhouse, NPR plays softly in the background, Maureen Dowd is face down on her bed sobbing into her pillow. A picture of Obama clutched tightly in one hand...

94 "Like Reagan, Obama is..."

If Reagan were alive he'd never stop slapping Opie O'Bongo.  Or he'd be clawing desperately at the lid of his coffin.

95 What will Mo do for a living when NYT Co. goes belly up?  Maybe play the zither in a coffee shop?

96

Palin can be stupefyingly simplistic, but she seems dynamic.

Dowd, looking in the mirror, seeing Palin.

97

Nightmare scenarios:  Obama, instead of Truman as POTUS. Obama, instead of Johnson as POTUS. Obama, instead of Carter as POTUS. Obama, instead of Washington as POTUS. Obama, instead of Lincoln as POTUS. Obama, instead of Stalin as Commissar. Obama, instead of Hitler as Der Fuhrer.

98 99 What will Mo do for a living when NYT Co. goes belly up?  Maybe play the zither in a coffee shop?

Posted by: Uh, Clem at November 23, 2009 01:11 PM (9A7mh)

Suck cock behind a dumpster in the Bronx?

99

A picture of Obama clutched tightly in one hand...
and a Rabbit® in the other.

100 Dammit Treacher, you stole my thunder. You really ought to get your own blog. And post on it. Click my name, click my name.

101

Oui, I'm a whorish shrew, but the whole world loves me, they really, really love me, mon ami!!!

102

Palin cuddles after America elects her, while Obama blows his load in America's face, wipes his dick on the curtains, and steals $50 from America's wallet on the way out.

Posted by: Phelps at November 23, 2009 12:18 PM (HDIbi)

Nominate for thread winner.

103 104

Yeah I know, and you post every two weeks, like clockwork.

104 No.can.do.  Just finished eating a large quesadilla w/chips and salsa.  Let me digest first.

105 Modo?  I'd hit it.  It would probably do her some good.

106 Poor Dowd.  Just now realizing how hosed she got, and not even the courtesy of a reach-around.

107 You guys missed the best part, the summary!

"If we could see a Reduced Shakespeare summary of ObamaÂ’s presidency so far, it would read:

Dither, dither, speech. Foreign trip, bow, reassure. Seminar, summit. Shoot a jump shot with the guys, throw out the first pitch in mom jeans. Compromise, concede, close the deal. Dither, dither, water down, news conference."

108 19
Obama is impressively complex


 Not really Mo

Posted by: bulwark at November 23, 2009 10:53 AM (jvrmc)

Well, megalomaniacal, narcissistic, sociopath is fifteen syllables.

109

". . .though I am sure some moron here is desperate enough to hit it. . ."

Yo, you rang?

110 He struggles to transcend identity politics while she wallows in them.

Granted this is Maureen Dowd who has the towering intellect of a chickpea and the vocabulary of the writers for Sex and the City but... this is so bizarre it had to be commented on. Does she simply not comprehend what the word "identity politics" means? Or does she figure her readers are so stupid and vapid they won't even notice but just agree?

111 Does she simply not comprehend what the word "identity politics" means? Or does she figure her readers are so stupid and vapid they won't even notice but just agree?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 23, 2009 02:34 PM (PQY7w)

I wholeheartedly agree with Dowd on this point.  Sarah Palin wallows in identity politics, the identity in question being patriotic American.

As for Obama, he succeeded by synthesizing a Black identity to succeed in Chicago politics, and now he's got to figure out what new identity to leverage to make up for his amply-demonstrated incompetence.

112 "He struggles to transcend identity politics " alone " If I call myself black I reject the mother who raised me " Oh wait that was Tiger Woods, Obama with no slave blood pretends to be a black man and fans the flames of racial politics

113 So Maureen Dowd's decided to write comedy now?

Sorry, MoDo. We're still laughing at you and not with you. I am getting more enamored with your Green Eyed Monster, however, as it drives your emotional bus. So you have that going for you.

114 84 Martin Malia is the author of the foreword to the English version of The Black Book of Communism.

Posted by: wHodat at November 23, 2009 12:04 PM (+sBB4)

"Malia" also means "bad" or "evil" in Italian.  And the word for "left" is "sinistra"...sinister...heh.  That's why old school Italians used to take the pencil out of their kid's left hand and put it in the right if he showed signs of becoming left-handed.  Superstition.

115

Yeah, cuz Malia isn't a weird name. In fact it's an extremely common American name. All of my cousins are named Malia. My dental hygienist is named Malia. My plumber is named Malia and he's a dude. My goldfish is named Malia. I've named beloved pieces of furniture Malia. Mary Todd Lincoln's nickname? Malia. Yeah, very common--not weird at all.

116 All surface, zero depth.

He's shallow, all the way down.

117

118 Later on she actually exhorts Obama to be more like Palin. Oh my, my my.

 "On the next season of Deadliest Catch! Michelle Obama interns as a crab fisher!!" ??

119 Obama is impressively complex

Is he?   This is one of the most overused talking points from the Left, along with the accompanying "Obama is impressively intelligent."  What is this belief by the Left that "Obama is impressively complex" based upon exactly?  Oh, that's right, the Left's enemy Bush was supposedly simplistic so they have to trumpet their guy as being his polar opposite.  Unbelievable.  I simply don't see Obama's astounding intellect or complexity.  Then again, most on the Left wouldn't see it either if Obama were a Republican and/or 100% white.

120 I think they started to name the kid "Feemali" then stopped themselves and said "Wait, that's an old stereotypically racist joke about blacks not knowing what female means on the hospital name tag", "Oh..right.  How about if we just use the Mali part then?"