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Desperately Seeking Street Cred (Dowd gives up on Obama)
New York Times ^ | April 27, 2008 | MAUREEN DOWD

Posted on 04/27/2008 4:08:44 AM PDT by tlb

Maybe I’ve been reading too many stories about the fad of teenage vampire chick lit, worlds filled with parasitic aliens and demi-human creatures, but there’s something eerie going on in this race.

Hillary grows more and more glowy as Obama grows more and more wan.

Is she draining him of his precious bodily fluids? Leeching his magic? Siphoning off his aura?

It used to be that he was incandescent and she was merely inveterate. Now she’s bristling with life force, and he looks like he wants to run away somewhere for three months by himself and smoke.

A man at a sports bar in Latrobe, Pa., advised Obama, “Get some sleep, Barack, you look like you’re tired, man.”

When the candidate noted he’s been running for president for 15 months, the guy offered another tip: “You need a drink.”

Instead of jokingly complaining that babies have learned to walk and talk since he first got in the race, he should remind voters that, if Hillary prevails, some people will slouch toward middle age having never known a White House without a Bush or a Clinton.

Accused by an Indianapolis reporter of looking like a GQ cover, he said he has only four pairs of shoes and buys “five of the same suit and then I patch them up and wear them repeatedly.” But his campaign refused to reveal the brand, presumably because it’s not J. C. Penney.

“I don’t want to go out of my way to sort of prove my street cred as a down-to-earth guy,” he said, after going out of his way. “People know me.”

Not yet, but we will, one of these years.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; dowd; hillary; obama
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"we will, one of these years." But clearly she thinks 2008 isn't the year.
1 posted on 04/27/2008 4:08:44 AM PDT by tlb
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I guess she’s back in the coven with Hitlery.


2 posted on 04/27/2008 4:12:23 AM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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She’s done some delicious dishing on Hillary too.


3 posted on 04/27/2008 4:16:30 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: tlb
I've been telling anyone who doesn't run away fast enough for years now, that the Clintons are protected by ranting choirs of fallen seraphim. I think Slick is some kind of forerunner, maybe, or perhaps just Satan's favorite black-haired boy. I think he and his bat-winged consort both radiate dark light, the kind that touches things with shadows.
4 posted on 04/27/2008 4:17:56 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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"Maybe I’ve been reading too many stories about the fad of teenage vampire chick lit"

Does this woman expect to be taken seriously? What a self-absorbed hack with some serious mental problems she must be.

5 posted on 04/27/2008 4:22:47 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: tlb
One whiny loser analysis of two others whiny losers. What a waste of ink.
6 posted on 04/27/2008 4:23:17 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: tlb
she’s bristling with life force


7 posted on 04/27/2008 4:30:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: tlb

I am so sick of that term ‘street cred’. Obama is the poster boy for the hip-hop generation. (and yes, the term boy has been connected to the word poster for eons, no malicious intent intended)


8 posted on 04/27/2008 4:33:29 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: tlb
Just watch it when she goes for the neck.

9 posted on 04/27/2008 4:33:46 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: central_va
No, read the article carefully, and you can hear her wishing and a-hoping for Obama to get it together.

But it's obvious she shares the belief that Hillary is turning the corner, selling the superdelegates the idea that "it's me or nothing".

Which if you think about it is a form of blackmail -- but hey, we all know Beastwoman is a reincarnation of the Borgia, Visconti, and Julio-Claudian women, all rolled together with Lady Macbeth.

But the internal evidence of the column is that Mo is still in Obama's corner. I'm convinced that, like Chris Hitchens and a lot of other liberals, she is actually horrified and repelled by the Clintons. I think she truly loathes Hillary, and that all her columns of the past skinning Hillary have come from the heart.

10 posted on 04/27/2008 4:34:14 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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She’s jumping back on the bandwagon before it is too late


11 posted on 04/27/2008 4:34:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: tlb

Expect to see a lot of this in Denver towards the end of August.

12 posted on 04/27/2008 4:40:37 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: tlb

It’s so much fun to see the ratmedia’s heads spin off as the go into high pander.


13 posted on 04/27/2008 4:43:19 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: DogBarkTree

I doubt it.

That’s an example of SELF sacrifice. And NONE on the left have any tendency towards SELF sacrifice.

Now, if they were to set someone ELSE on fire, that would be more like the left.


14 posted on 04/27/2008 4:46:16 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: lentulusgracchus

The Clintons must be where JK Rowling got the idea for the ‘dementors.’ They just suck the life and happiness out of everybody around them.


15 posted on 04/27/2008 5:00:21 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Rules are rules. Glad to see at least one non slacker. Carry on Sedgwick, carry on!
16 posted on 04/27/2008 5:01:59 AM PDT by Leisler
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I don’t want to go out of my way to sort of prove my street cred as a down-to-earth guy,” he said, after going out of his way.

Hey Barak--You want to prove you are a down to earth guy then troll the homosexual bars for votes like Chelsea did in Philly
17 posted on 04/27/2008 5:09:04 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Leisler; ClearCase_guy
Rules are rules.

Glad to oblige.


18 posted on 04/27/2008 5:11:44 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Typical white person, bitter, religious, gun owner, who will "Just say No to BO (or HRC).")
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Mo is just “bitter”.


19 posted on 04/27/2008 5:12:35 AM PDT by randita (I'm a "typical white person" and I voted for Lynn Swann.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Come for the pointless MoDo rantings—stay for the CZJ pix !


20 posted on 04/27/2008 5:25:20 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Building Code Under Fire)
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