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Pretty funny article on palin/obama - especially "palin's yoda-like syntax." Hilarious. http://bit.ly/8gs3o1 12/4/2009 |
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Maureen Dowd can't hid her envy of Sarah Palin, hates her, but wants Obama to be more like her? http://bit.ly/5nSv90 #Onecrazymixed-up 11/24/2009 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22dowd.html 11/23/2009 |
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... written her off as unqualified for the White House. The G.O.P. establishment knows this, and is frightened. The demographic that Palin attracts is in decline; there’s no way the math of her fan base adds up to an Electoral College victory. Yet among Republicans she still ties Mitt Romney in the latest USA Today/Gallup survey, with 65 percent giving her serious presidential consideration, just behind the 71 for her evangelical rival, Mike Huckabee. Maureen Dowd: Yet Democrats would be foolish to write off her visceral ...
10 Pieces of Unsolicited Advice To President Obama
Blue Virginia —
... nor allowed us to move on to other, pressing issues like climate change, foreign policy, the economy, etc. Second, I had a long conversation yesterday with a friend who I affectionately call an "Obamabot," because of his intense (and early) support for Barack Obama and also for his tendency not to see any flaws in the man. Yesterday, however, even my "Obamabot" friend admitted that he was getting frustrated with the Obama administration on a number of fronts. Third, this morning's Maureen Dowd's NY Times column (as well as excellent editorials by ...
"Like Reagan, Obama is a detached loner with a strong, savvy wife."
Althouse —
"But unlike Reagan, he doesn’t have the acting skills to project concern about what’s happening to people." Wow. That's Maureen Dowd. (Obama's in trouble!) She's writing about the importance of reaching people on a "visceral" level, the way Sarah Palin does. Dowd quotes a "spiritual therapist": "[Palin's] alive inside, and that radiates energy, and people who are not psychologically alive inside are fascinated by that." Obama's admirers have loved his thoughtful thinkiness, his cerebreality. But that's getting gets old and cold. ...
Another dish of Palin
MyDD —
No, nothing from Andrew Sullivan worth pointing to, but a lot of interesting reads out there, about Palin & populism, and what it all means, here they are: The NYT's overview: Republicans Eye the Tiger of Populism I'm reading Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" by Crunchy Con, that Ross Douthat comments upon. The NYT's today can't resist, with both Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd writing about Palin. And finally, Matt Taibbi, who sums up a lot of what I have said about Sarah Palin from the moment she entered the scene, Sarah Palin, WWE Star. Tags: Sarah Palin (all tags) ...
At Last
Neptunus Lex —
Good news from the Af:
American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
The emergence of the militias, which took some leaders in Kabul by surprise, has so encouraged the American and Afghan officials that they are planning to spur the growth of similar armed groups across the Taliban heartland in the southern and eastern parts of the country.
The American and Afghan officials say they are hoping the plan, called the Community Defense ...
Glenn Organizes Like ACORN, the Devil is About Scientology, Hasan Nidal Holds Still
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
... the world inhabited by Palestinian children,there is no Israel." - Itamar Marcus "As Afghanistan opened itself up after the fall of the Taliban, the cuisine, movies, and money that flowed into the country were, naturally, Indian. This is like noting that the United States has had growing influence in Mexico over the last few decades." - Fareed Zakaria Palinfest '09 Frank Rich Maureen Dowd Tina Brown Bob Franken ...
MAUREEN DOWD: If only Obama were more like Sarah Palin. “The animating spirit that electrified his…
Instapundit —
... MAUREEN DOWD: If only Obama were more like Sarah Palin. “The animating spirit that electrified his political movement has sputtered out. . . . Like Reagan, Obama is a detached loner with a strong, savvy wife. But unlike Reagan, he doesn’t have the acting skills to project concern about what’s happening to people.” ...
Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... “Democrats would be foolish to write off her visceral power.“As Judith Doctor, a 69-year-old spiritual therapist, told The Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz at Palin’s book signing in Grand Rapids, Mich., ‘ She’s alive inside , and that radiates energy, and people who are not psychologically alive inside are fascinated by that.’… “[Obama] struggles to transcend identity politics while she wallows in them. As he builds an emotional moat around himself, she exuberantly pushes whatever she has, warts and all — the good looks, the tabloid-perfect family, the Alaska quirkiness, the ...
It's Morning In America, Again
Ace of Spades HQ —
It's Morning In America, Again OK, no. But Maureen Dowd is starting to wake up. She hasn't vomited the poison, but she's got an unpleasant case of the bed spins. Check out this op-ed in which she compares Obama to Palin (favorably and unfavorably ). Its time for the president to reinvent this formula and convey a more three-dimensional person. 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. He struggles to transcend identity politics while she wallows ...
Obama is no Reagan:His is a Personal Narrative, the Gipper’s, Philosophical
GayPatriot —
... a Maureen Dowd column which showed that while the New York Times columnist does have a jaundiced view of the GOP, she does at least understand part of Sarah Palin’s appeal, what she calls the “visceral,” her ability to connect with people, a capacity that Barack Obama had on the campaign trail, but appears to be losing in the White House: ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Harris's article is Dowd-like, and he invokes Dowd herself, but even she gets closer to the real problem with Obama as the general public sees it when she talks about his reluctance to embrace the visceral: ...
