Posted on 02/23/2007 6:57:10 PM PST by neverdem
BARACK OBAMA looked as if he needed a smoke and he needed it bad. Everyone knows you're not supposed to make two big changes at once. But Michelle Obama's price for letting her husband run was that he quit.
So there he was, trying to meet the deep, inexhaustible needs of both Iowa activists and the global press behemoth on his first swing across the state, while giving up cigarettes.
He was a tad testy. Traipsing around desolate stretches of snowy — and extremely white — Iowa to go into living rooms and high school gyms and take questions like "Are you willing to stand up for independent family farmers?" makes me want to sneak out for a drag, too, and I don't even smoke.
"I've been chewing Nicorette all day long," he told reporters at a press conference in Ames on Sunday, where he was getting irritated at suggestions that he lacked substance and at the specter of his vanishing privacy. And, oh yes, at the accusation by the Australian prime minister (sounding two sheep short of a paddock) that Obama's deadline to get out of Iraq made him al-Qaida's dream candidate.
The Illinois senator didn't have on an implacable mask of amiability, as Hillary did in Iowa. He didn't look happily in his element, like Bill Clinton. But he certainly didn't look as if he was straining to survive the Q&As, as W. did in the beginning.
Beyond his smooth-jazz facade, the reassuring baritone and that ensorcelling smile, the 45-year-old had moments of looking conflicted.
In the lobby of the AmericInn in Iowa Falls on Saturday night, he seemed a bit dazed by his baptism into the big time. He was left munching trail mix all day while, he said, "the press got fed before me."
Everything was...
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In the lobby of the AmericInn in Iowa Falls...
My man goes first-class!
I assume she's for Hillary? He does seem a bit too testy. Rush mentioned the ear comments from a few weeks back, among other things. He is NOT ready for this. He's so too fragile and/or brittle.
Wow, I thought she might stay away from Obama after it came out she was his lackey...("don't write about my big ears!"). I guess not....
More popcorn please....
"Are you willing to stand up for independent family farmers?"
That's a tough question?
Hey! I just realized. In order to write this, Mo Dowd must have sobered up enough to get out of the office. She never, never gets out of the office to write her opinion pieces.
Mo Dowd on the Campaign Trail! In far off Iowa! Will wonders never cease?
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This is why I'm leaving FreeRepublic. This article was written almost ten days ago. For God's sake, why has this website/newsforum turned into an amateur blogosphere? It used to be that the articles that were posted were timely and very few were vanities. Seems those days are gone.
Pitiful. FreeRepublic is a major disappointment.
MoDo plays the race card and pretends not to notice.
Disgusting.
Bye.
Equating 'bush,inc.' with clinton.inc?
How many files does Bush have and how many of his former friends, employees and cohorts have turned up dead?
I don't think so, Mo.
Since Modo is now by subscription only, if anyone wants to read her, we have to wait until some other paper buys and prints the column.
Personally, I think you just did it as an excuse to post the Zeta Jones pic.
Here's something more timely.
Clinton Faces (Not So) Friendly Fire
You also have to appreciate that the admin mods have banned or driven a lot of good posters away. The quarterly donation drives take almost three weeks now. IIRC, they used to take less than half that time.
Buh Bye!
I forgot that NY Times' OpEd Columnists are not free anymore. You have to wait for them to turn up in syndication elsewhere, or pay almost $50. How many in this forum would pay for "TimesSelect"? The OpEds that are free are from guest "OpEd Contributors," usually with some topical expertise.
OK, I'll bite...so why didn't you post this article earlier yourself?...buh bye
No, I'm tired of meeting posting standards nonsense, it's an old pic, I didn't know how she spelled her first name, but I didn't want to read dopey comments about "where's the pic."
Modo orgasmed multiple times while writing that line.
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