Maureen Dowd: Let The Big Dog Run

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=1

Let the Big Dog Run

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 4, 2009

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Conservatives were screeching, naturally, that the Clinton trip would provide propaganda cover to the North Koreans to continue their nuclear shell game.

“Despite decades of bipartisan U.S. rhetoric about not negotiating with terrorists for the release of hostages,” John Bolton wrote for The Washington Post’s Web site, “it seems that the Obama administration not only chose to negotiate, but to send a former president to do so.”

But the former Bush bullies have no credibility on diplomacy. They spent eight years wrecking it, and the score for them on North Korea is 0-6; zero meetings with Kim and enough plutonium for six nuclear bombs.

Bill Clinton will bring back valuable information about Kim’s mental and physical health. If we’d had that sort of information about the snubbed Saddam, we would have known that he was in his own spiral of doom, trying to bluff his neighbors, with no need for our shock and awe.

Hillary and President Obama look bigger when they share the stage with other talented players. And Barack and Bill may have finally started to put South Carolina behind them — without the need for a beer summit photo-op.

[madrchsod]

1. maureen`s observations are actually interesting again.

one thing i do question is her richardson remark because i think he is ill.

[ashling]

2. "Big Dawg"

Now we get to hear that unfortunate expression over and over again.

Of course, I guess it is more "acceptable" than some others. LOL


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[Ilsa]

3. Thanks for this post and link. Sent out to buddies!

Great title by Dowd.

Boltons and RWers seem to think that not dealing with problems and problem nations is the way to work. Lack of resolution is their reason for war. So childish.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Why must Dowd see EVERYTHING as a zero-sum competition?

As one of the comments after her article said:

Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, Bill Richardson, Al Gore, and Barack Obama are team players and are all happy that it has worked out and are not personally peeved.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Because she's shallow and petty and as result, those are the glasses

she views the world through.

I believe at some point in the past, someone must have caused some serious emotional hurt to her because Dowd's grace is so limited, of course I could be wrong it might be genetic.

[Aragorn]

6. I assume

your post is about the content and validity of the columnist's remarks and not about the personality of the columnist. Is so, I must agree with the content, which I think is valid.