Posted on 01/22/2012 8:47:48 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Maureen Dowd: Obama Is 'Maddeningly Naïve' - His Presidency Has 'All the Joy of a Root Canal' By Noel Sheppard Created 01/22/2012 - 11:16am
The perilously liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd appears fed up with Barack Obama.
In her piece published Sunday, she called the current White House resident "maddeningly naïve" right after saying his presidency has "all the joy of a root canal":
The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had a presidency with all the joy of a root canal, dragged down by W.’s recklessness and his own inability to read America’s panic and its thirst for a strong leader.
In an interview with Fareed Zakaria for this week’s Time cover story, the president is maddeningly naïve.
After sharing a quote from Zakaria's piece of Obama saying that he's depicted as being cold and aloof because he doesn't attend a lot of Washington parties - "The fact is, I’ve got a 13-year-old and 10-year-old daughter” - Dowd observed, "Reagan didn’t socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can’t condescend."
She continued her critique:
The portrait of the first couple in Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas,” bristles with aggrievement and the rational president’s disdain for the irrational nature of politics, the press and Republicans. Despite what his rivals say, the president and the first lady do believe in American exceptionalism — their own, and they feel overassaulted and underappreciated.
We disappointed them...They still believed, as their friend Valerie Jarrett once said, that Obama was “just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
Dowd also shared with her readers revelations made last week by former President Jimmy Carter to CNN's Piers Morgan that he doesn't have any relationship with Obama. According to Dowd, "The Clintons have not been courted with dinners in the private residence either."
She continued, "The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They’ve forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House."
All well and good, but Dowd better be careful with her criticisms lest she too be wrongly accused of calling the first lady an angry black woman or be included in the list of Obama critics Newsweek and Andrew Sullivan think are dumb.
The comments are priceless.
Awright. Who’s Bogarting the animated “That’s racist!” gif?
“Newsweak”?
“Andrew Who”?
RLTW
Hey MoDo, congratulations!! We agree!! Here, have a drink on me.
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His ia aloof? Because he has 2 daughters. Do they play golf with dad while on those fancy vacations?
She is lying.
I have had two root canals. The oral surgeon enabled me to have no pain during the procedures and simple NSAID therapy eliminated pain after the procedures.
With Obozo, I have been in pain before he was elected and after he was sworn in.
I will be in pain until we send him back to Chicago as an unemployment stat.
I'm more interested in the "comments" that your typical MoDo thread generate. If you know what I mean. And I think you do. Eh? Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
Having said that. I apologize for the zit that is Sheila Jackson Lee that I posted earlier on the otherwise beautiful face of this thread.
Those responsible have been sacked.
Well, there you have it... We’re not worshipping the Messiah earnestly enough. We need to shout “Praise him!” louder.
I don’t know, with all the vacations, golf and travel - I’d say he had a pretty good time.
A strong leader a president who defends the republic.
We do not need a snot nosed, thin skinned, self entitled wanna be dictator.
“...Rules...”
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Yeah. See what those elitist “one-percenters” end up with. That Michael Douglas is one example — how selfish, denying the great masses of the “ninty-niners” by holding back this trophy wife.
How selfish, un-American can you get? More taxes!!! That’s the answer — even our great, patriotic, “American” president agrees!!!
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