Fie, Fatal Flaw!

[Beacool]

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 17, 2009

One singular leader who wrote elegantly about his ideals, was swept into the presidency and then collided with harsh reality had some advice for another.

In an interview with Alison Smale in The Times last week, Vaclav Havel sipped Champagne in the middle of the afternoon and pricked Barack Obama’s conscience.

Havel, the 73-year-old former Czech president, who didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize despite leading the Czechs and the Slovaks from communism to democracy, turned the tables and asked Smale a question about Obama, the latest winner of the peace prize.

Was it true that the president had refused to meet the Dalai Lama on his visit to Washington?

He was told that Obama had indeed tried to curry favor with China by declining to see the Dalai Lama until after the president’s visit to China next month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/opinion/18dowd.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

MoDo is at it again.......

:eyes:

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. She's not the only one

[Beacool]

2. True, but Maureen is always on attack mode.

She disliked Gore, she positively hates the Clintons and I guess that now she's moved on to Obama.

:eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

3. It's pretty tiring. nt

[Beacool]

4. Hi, how have you been?

:hi:

[Captain Hilts]

5. Crazy busy...

[Beacool]

8. Me too.

:pals:

[Orsino]

6. Well, that's two minutes I won't get back.

I think her job at the Times must be distracting Dowd from whatever the fuck it is she does with the rest of her day.

[Beacool]

7. Well, she's been the same since at least the 90's.

Probably too late to change.

:-(