Dowd: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[RamboLiberal]

Customarily in presidential races, Americans seek a patriarchal figure, a strong parent to protect the house from invaders and financial turbulence.

But with Barack Obama, this dynamic seems reversed.

He seems more like a child prodigy. Those enraptured with his gifts urge him on, like anxious parents, trying to pull that sustained, dazzling performance out of him that they believe he’s capable of; they are willing to put up with the prodigy’s occasional listlessness and crabbiness, his flights of self-regard and self-righteousness. Despite his uneven efforts and distaste for the claws of competition, they can see he is a golden child, one who moves, speaks, smiles and thinks with amazing grace.

His advisers and fund-raisers have pressed him to go fortissimo. Many voters with great expectations are hovering, hoping for a crescendo.

Except for panicked Clintonistas, everyone seems eager to see if the young pol can live up to his potential. Responding to his more combative style, the press has relaunched him, giving him a second chance to shine, on this week’s cover of Time, in the pages of The New Yorker, in the up arrow of Newsweek, which now declares him “poised to be the comeback kid,” and at The Times, where young female assistants lined the halls on Wednesday to watch him glide into a second meeting with editorial board writers and editors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02dowd.html?hp

[Demeter]

1. Maureen Gets Out Her Axe

a knife simply won't do the trick on some people....

[Pirate Smile]

2. I didn't see it as a hit piece - which was a surprise because I usually expect one from her.

[TheWraith]

3. Not so much a hit piece as just insulting everyone involved.

Manages to whack on Obama and Clinton at the same time.

[madrchsod]

4. gee maureen must have moved by the spirit the other night

i`m really surprised she wrote a rather nice article on barrack....but she`ll go back to the old maureen when the spirit of the apollo wears off...

[Fleshdancer]

5. She's describing W, not Obama. eom

[adnelson60087]

6. This isn't a hit piece regarding Obama

but it is very true that many of Obama's supporters are hoping he can be what they WANT him to be. Passionate. Energetic. Charisma. Personally, I can see the Charisma, but I don't see the Passion in him, the fire in the belly that he will truly fight for the poor across the country. As a black man, I wish I DID see those traits, but I don't yet. I really think he'd make a great Vice Prez though working with Edwards. I still bet this is how it works out in the end...

[Joe Bacon]

7. Whoreen Dowd is the Linda Blair of Pre$$titute$

You can always count on Whoreen to vomit out some pea soup aimed at the Clintons. Somebody should tell her that her act is getting real tiresome!