Surrender Already, Dorothy (MoDo's Effort at Depth Psychology)

New York Times ^ | 30 March 2008 | Maureen Dowd

[shrinkermd]

...Democrats are coming around to the point Jay Rockefeller made 10 days ago after introducing Obama in West Virginia: “Democrats always make a mistake by nominating people who know everything on earth there is to know about public policy. I introduced both Al Gore and John Kerry at their rallies. They knew all the policies, but people didn’t connect with them. You don’t get elected president if people don’t like you.”

Despite Bill Clinton’s saying it was “a bunch of bull” that his wife should drop out, Democrats are trying to sneak up on Hillary, throw a burlap sack over her head, carry her off the field and stick her in a Saddam spider hole until after the Denver convention.

One Obama adviser moaned that the race was “beginning to feel like a hostage crisis” and would probably go on for another month to six weeks. And Obama said that the “God, when will this be over?” primary season was like “a good movie that lasted about a half an hour too long.”

Hillary sunnily riposted that she likes long movies. Her favorite as a girl was “The Wizard of Oz,” so surely she spots the “Surrender Dorothy” sign in the sky and the bad portent of the ladies of “The View” burbling to Obama about how sexy he is.

[shrinkermd]

See, anybody can write an editorial using depth thinking. The idea is to nominate Barack even though he doesn't know much, because he is good looking and can give a speech.

What was that about feminism I hear in the background?

[familyop]

Yep. And here's an update about Texas.

Obama says he’s won Texas

[KoRn]

[Dane]

...Democrats are coming around to the point Jay Rockefeller made 10 days ago after introducing Obama in West Virginia: “Democrats always make a mistake by nominating people who know everything on earth there is to know about public policy. I introduced both Al Gore and John Kerry at their rallies. They knew all the policies, but people didn’t connect with them. You don’t get elected president if people don’t like you.”

And also provide free chicken picnic dinners as Rockefeller does every 6 years.

The people of WV can be bought off so easily.

[Mark]

Well, it is Maureen Dowd. How can anyone argue with her wisdom?( OK, besides a sane person).

[OCC]

Good thing for MoDo that the NYT’s does not also realize when someone has overstayed their welcome.

[familyop]

"The idea is to nominate Barack even though he doesn't know much, because he is good looking and can give a speech."

Quite a few younger folks would probably rather see someone like the Forest Gump character elected than their mothers'/grandmothers' candidate (America's ex-wife and mother-in-law).

[tet68]

He can ensorcell when he has to, and he has viral appeal.

My god, don’t they have spell check at the NYT?

Gee Mo, guess you wouldn’t know about virile would you.

[ryan71]

The more the dims try to get Hillary to stop, the more determined she will be to stay in.

[tet68]

Well, maybe Obama IS like a virus after all.

Heard from Michael lately ?

[hsalaw]

The dems have the most screwed-up nominating process in the history of the world. Well, wait; maybe reading chicken entrails was more screwed up, but this is really close.

[Domangart]

Burlap? Where does she shop?

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

[popdonnelly]

The people who spent eight years making apologies for the Clintons have now abandoned them. They’re idiots for Obama, just as they were idiots for the Clintons.

[popdonnelly]

MoDo needs to learn how to write above the level of a college freshman.

[rod1]

The good doc Howie Dean has brought the plague to the DNC. and it ain’t nearly as fun as Ring Around the Rosie, Dorothy.

[PzLdr]

I would imagine Hillary was attracted to “The Wizard of Oz” by a strong female role model. And I don’t mean Dorothy or Glinda.

[BenLurkin]

PIAPS is not Dorothy.

She knows she is the other female lead.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

They’re idiots, period. As are most liberals.

[dayglored]

MoDo Pic! Quick! The antidote!

Ahhhh, that's better...

[Enchante]

Oh, woe, what did Michael ever see in that bimbo??

Why doesn’t he want ME, ME, ME?

-— Maureen Dowd -—

(entry repeated in her dear diary many times daily for the past many years)

[Arthur McGowan]

The message wasn’t “Surrender, Dorothy.” It was “Surrender Dorothy.”

[Arthur McGowan]

Unfortunately, MoDo meant "viral." It's either a trendy computer-geek word, or she means he has herpes.

[dayglored]

The article and title are even stupider than that. The sky-written phrase "Surrender Dorothy" in the "Wizard of Oz" was directed at the people of Oz, as in "Give Dorothy to me" -- it was not a command to Dorothy to turn herself in.

It was originally written to be "Surrender Dorothy or die - WWW" but that was apparently too big for the screen.

[dayglored]

> The message wasn’t “Surrender, Dorothy.” It was “Surrender Dorothy.”

Quite so; see also post #24.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

LOL I don’t think MoDo is all THAT bad.
I’d hit it.

[grey_whiskers]

It was originally written to be "Surrender Dorothy or die - WWW" but that was apparently too big for the screen. the world wide web hadn't been invented yet.

Cheers!

[KoRn]

"I’d hit it."

Just finish that last beer, put what you have left in the fridge, and go to bed. You've had enough tonight. :p

[Political Junkie Too]

Hillary sunnily riposted that she likes long movies. Her favorite as a girl was “The Wizard of Oz,”

That makes Obama the Horse Of Another Color. (I know, that's racist.)

-PJ

[dayglored]

> LOL I don’t think MoDo is all THAT bad. I’d hit it.

Yeah, but then you'd have to TALK to it afterward.

Unless you mean you'd hit the PICTURE of MoDo... Given the choice, I'd rather hit a picture of Catherine Zeta Jones, but to each their own. ;-)

[no dems]

Barack......he is good looking...

I'm sorry but I guess everyone else is seeing something about this guy that I'm not seeing.

[PzLdr]

Obama looks like a PEZ dispenser.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Ah, MoDo gets a bad rap. I've always had a thing for redheads.

[KoRn]

"Ah, MoDo gets a bad rap. I've always had a thing for redheads."

Same here, it's just that's she's easily old enough to be my mother. lol

[AmericanArchConservative]

BTTT!

[matthew fuller]

"because he is good looking and can give a speech. "

he's kinda clean-looking, too.

[dayglored]

>> "Ah, MoDo gets a bad rap. I've always had a thing for redheads."

> Same here, it's just that's she's easily old enough to be my mother. lol

Once in every man's life, he should fall head-over-heels infatuated with a redhead, just so that he can forever afterwards affirm the eternal truth that REDHEADS ARE CRAZY... but WORTH IT.

Maureen Dowd is my age (56). Actually, she's not that bad looking, I admit. I told a friend recently:

"You know, not everything goes to hell after you turn 50. I find I can do some things now that I couldn't do at all when I was a much younger man."

"Oh, really? Like what?"

"Find 40-year-old women attractive."

[Jimmy Valentine]

"I’d hit it"

Remove the beer goggles and step away from her pic.

It is not just her sour faced look; it is her perpetually aggrieved feminist attitude of man as oppressor that is off putting.

If you tried to hit that, you would regret it but once, but it wouldlast a long time.