Running With Scissors (Dowd Takes Down Edwards)

New York Times ^ | 21 April 2007 | Maureen Dowd

[shrinkermd]

...Americans have revered such homely leaders as Abe Lincoln. They seem open to balding pates like Rudy’s and flattops like Jon Tester’s. They don’t want self-confidence to look like self-love.[If this is original with Dowd, it is a very good summary of human nature]...

...Someone who aspires to talk credibly about the two Americas can’t lavish on his locks what working families may spend on electricity in a year. You can’t sell earnestness while indulging in decadence.

Mr. Edwards, the son of a mill worker, moved from a $5.2 million, six-bedroom Federal mansion in Georgetown to a 28,000-square-foot behemoth in North Carolina with a basketball court, a squash court, two stages and a swimming pool.

His 25-year-old daughter, Cate, a former editorial assistant for Vanity Fair, co-founded Urbanista, an online Rolodex that dispenses advice for “hip” girls in Manhattan, offering to be a “bestie” (a best friend) and answer questions like “Where should I go to get my Marc Jacobs shoes reheeled?” and “Does anyone know the best place to get a really great haircut?” One salon the site recommends is Warren-Tricomi, where Edward Tricomi says haircuts range from $121 to $300.

The cost of grooming hair is peanuts compared with the cost of grooming an image. Hillary is paying a fortune to try to buy the secrets of likability. Her financial reports for the first three months of 2007 show debts to consulting firms of $447,000.

[shrinkermd]

You can dislike what she says, even dislike her as a person, but you cannot deny this woman is exceptionally talented.

[Psycho_Bunny]

....at what?

[Lurker]

but you cannot deny this woman is exceptionally talented.

Watch me.

Cynicism doesn't require talent.

L

[Tax-chick]

It’s true that she sometimes makes a very sharp observation.

I’d imagine that MoDo spends at least as much on her hair as John Edwards does, but she’s not trying to sell herself as a populist, “common man” candidate :-).

(Placemarker for the Catherine Zeta-Jones pictures ... one of the wonders of creation.)

[Popman]

Someone who aspires to talk credibly about the two Americas can’t lavish on his locks what working families may spend on electricity in a year.

I wish I spend $800 a year on electricity.

Miss Dowd needs to buy a clue

BTW, I only hit these threads to wait for the Zeta Jones pictures to show up.

[raybbr]

Apparently Cate, Edwards' daughter, doesn't get $400 styles.

[raybbr]

BTW, I only hit these threads to wait for the Zeta Jones pictures to show up.

[rabidralph]

Daddy needs to talk to her about those eyebrows.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Must become a subscriber to read the article.

Now, that is funny.

[saganite]

I didn’t know she moonlighted in a New Orleans cat house.

[upchuck]

I choose... YOU!

[raybbr]

I signed up with a “fake” account. Not a real e-mail and the simplest of names and password. It doesn’t cost anything.

[whitedog57]

Wow. Shave her head and she looks like a linebacker for Ohio State! Maybe she should change her name from Cate to Nate.

[OldEagle]

"I didn’t know she moonlighted in a New Orleans cat house."

I believe she could moonlight anywhere!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Looks like Cate shaves three or four times a week.

[visualops]

Edwards is a big fat phony.

“The Edwardses were solidly middle class” when Johnny was growing up, according to a four-part profile of the North Carolina senator in his home state’s most prestigious daily, the Raleigh News and Observer. It’s true that for a few years as a young man Edwards’ father worked on the floor of a Roger Milliken textile mill. But Edwards père (a lifelong Republican, like his reactionary boss) quickly climbed upward, becoming a monitor of worker productivity as a “time-study” man — which any labor organizer in the South will tell you is a polite term for a stoolie who spies on the proletarian mill hands to get them to speed up production for the same low wages. Daddy Edwards’ grassing got him promoted to supervisor, then to plant manager — and he finally resigned to start his own business as a consultant to the textile industry. As a Boston Globe profile of Edwards put it last year, the senator never “notes that his father was part of management . . . ‘John was more middle class than most of us,’” says Bill Garner, a high school friend and college roommate.

[TomGuy]

Breckgirl primping his hair.

Rudy-in-dresses.

Is this the best the politican parties can offer the American voters?

I wonder, if elected, which gown Rudy will wear to his Inaugural Ball.

Imagine the snickers and laughs in Bin Laden’s cave if one of these girlymen does get elected.

[nativist]

Captain Queeg is lookin to ‘bomb bomb Iran’. Buck up.

[all the best]

Looks like a well used whore.

[sig226]

Yes I can. She's an obnoxious, ignorant crank. She's also a hypocrite. Right now she's shilling for Clinton. If Edwards won the democrat nomination, she'd write long columns about the two Americas and how Edwards has to spend $400 on a haircut so that he looks the part of a statesman, etc., etc.

I'd like to suggest that someone should run her over with a truck, but I can't justify beating a perfectly good truck with an ugly stick like Maureen Dowd.