Maureen Dowd rips Bill Clinton's ego and jealousy against Barack Obama

[Becky72]

Dowd talks today about the primaries:

I was reminded of this reading the new chronicle of the vertiginous 2008 campaign written by The Washington Post’s Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson.

Once more, we are mesmerized, even horrified, as Bill Clinton does his dinner-theater version of “King Lear,” howling at the South Carolina sky as he realizes he no longer has enough juice with African-American voters to derail Barack Obama and make his wife president.

Bill could not bear to see the press transfer the crown to Obama as the best politician of our age. He thought he’d retain the title at least for his lifetime.

It drove him temporarily mad. It was Bill who changed the strategy for the primary in South Carolina, where the Clintons had originally planned to campaign minimally and lose, but not so badly that it would scuttle Hillary’s campaign.

“Bill Clinton decided, by God, we were going to do better with African-Americans,” a senior Clinton adviser told the authors.

Ego can be dangerous. Bill “believed that Obama had gotten a free ride from the media, and he wanted to force a conversation about that,” Balz and Johnson wrote in their book, “The Battle for America 2008.” They added, “His once certain political touch and instincts eluded him.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09dowd.html

[geek tragedy]

1. Dear god, she just can't let go of her Clinton Derangement Syndrome.

That was over a year ago. Bill has proved to be an asset.

Ugh.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. Mo was a cheerleader

for the Shrub's war. Why should we take anything she says seriously?

[Canuckistanian]

17. I remember her as the leader of the 2000 "Trash Gore" debacle

Dowd practically invented the "Al Gore is a Pathological Liar" meme and consistently portrayed him as some kind of elitist, "out-of-touch" boob.

[Uzybone]

3. Dowd went insane several years ago

[grasswire]

4. I don't think Bill has lost his title.

He's still the best politician of our lifetime. I don't see that Obama has made any inroads there.

[blogslut]

5. Actually

The bit about president Clinton was incidental. The crux of the article was about Sarah Palin.

[Becky72]

6. She wrote about Clinton first, and as much as Palin

She inserts criticism about Palin so as to distract from the fact that she is and will forever be obsessed with the Clintons.

[blogslut]

13. Look

I'm no fan of MoDo but you're being disingenuous. She uses Anita Hill, Professor Gates and Bill Clinton as preamble for her true target - Sarah Palin.

[rvablue]

7. Ha, ha!! You left out the part where she rips into Palin for being a lightweight, dunderhead! Nice

try at trying to start a primary flame war.

Many of us have left the past behind. I'm looking forward to 2012 when I can watch the Republicans go after each other in their primary war.

[Becky72]

9. So it's ok if she splits her time between Clinton and Palin?

We progressives often settle for less, I see.

[rvablue]

11. "We progressives settle for less" Ha, ha! That's even funnier!

FAIL!

[tabasco]

27. "We progressives"

BUSTED!!!!!

Hahahahahahahaha!

[joeybee12]

8. So, Maureen Dowd and Sarah Palin are the same person, right?

Can't be two such criminally insane people, can there?

[Botany]

10. An A.D.D. Piece if there ever was one.

The Irish Setter of the New York Times might want to pick a topic and stay on it.


And yes I am still bitter about her Al Gore stuff in 2000 ..... when the next round of
people to be fired from the NY Times comes up for budget reasons Dowd can be on the
top of the list.

[Cirque du So-What]

12. Dowd is persona non grata

on my editorial reading list. I gave up on anything that shit-stirring harpy had to say a long time ago. We can do quite well without 'Democrats' like her.

[inna]

29. +1. nt

[asdjrocky]

14. That woman's got some issues.

[ccharles000]

15. so much crazy

[TexasObserver]

16. She looks boozed up and pilled up every time she's on any TV show.

For years her columns have really gone downhill, and in recent years, she's begun appearing on news shows now and then. She always looks and acts wasted in those interviews.

[Demit]

18. She is one sick cookie. They'll lead her gently out of the newsroom one day.

Her and her full-blown psychosis.

[lame54]

19. can't let him have his recent victory...

[rvablue]

21. Cool editorial pic! n/t

[Darth_Kitten]

20. See she hasn't gotten over her Bill Clinton penis obsession.....

She clearly needs help.

[madokie]

22. Its hard for me to believe that I once liked to read her columns

It was so long ago I have to admit

[OHdem10]

23. Her GOP upbringing and Clinton Derangement Syndrome takes over

if she even sees Bill Clinton.

[TankLV]

24. I am so fucking tired of the CLINTON HATERS!!!

GET OVER IT ALREADY!

BILL DID A GREAT THING - LIKE HE DOES ALL THE TIME!!!

I am so fucking sick and tired of these IGNORANT assholes...

[NNN0LHI]

25. Maureen and the NYT love the smell of Bills underwear in the morning

:rofl:

[FourScore]

26. The most vapid columnist in America.

Honestly. The only piece she ever did that was any good was one written a while back about Sarah Palin in mock latin. That's it.

She tries to be witty, but she says nothing of value in the process. Why she works at the Times has always been a mystery to me.

[inna]

28. k&u. she's a joke.

[orwell]

30. Project much Mo? n/t