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2012-01-22 -Election 2012

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Posted by tipper 2012-01-22 00:09|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 For eight seconds, we saw the president we had craved for three years: cool, joyous, funny, connected.

Translation: Aw, man! I can't believe we were such rubes. Talk about 3 years of buyer's remorse! At least he is campaigning again and we can feel good about...oh look, shiny!

Like Bugs said: Sheesh, what a maureen!

Posted by SteveS 2012-01-22 01:09|| 2012-01-22 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 For eight seconds, we saw the president we had craved for three years: cool, joyous, funny, connected.

Ms. Dowd should recall that eight seconds is more than a metaphor. It is the time allocated to a cowboy to stay atop a pissed off bull. In that sport, he gets graded for style, like Obama has been during the last campaign.

Posted by badanov 2012-01-22 01:21|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-01-22 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Like Bugs said: Sheesh, what a maureen!

I dunno. The way I interpret the article is basically ~~DoDo's~~ ~~BoZo's~~ MoDo's stock in trade - teenage-girl-style snark masquerading as sophisticated criticism - actually directed against the Big O and Michelle Antoinette. A couple of money quotes:

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 (presumably meaning BO and Michelle) still believed, as their friend Valerie Jarrett once said, that Obama was just too talented to do what ordinary people do.

Did you get that, folks? We disappointed them. We're just too fucking stupid to bow before His greatness and talent. Leave the rogues' gallery of Chicago mooks, fixers, bagmen, racist-crackpot preachers and terrorists aside, along with the out-and-out treason displayed the past three years...if you had any lingering doubt that Obama genuinely hates this country and its people, MoDo has (probably unintentionally) completely dispelled it.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2012-01-22 03:06|| 2012-01-22 03:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "Did you get that, folks? We disappointed them."

AKA malaise.

Posted by no mo uro 2012-01-22 06:02|| 2012-01-22 06:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh my gosh. And all of this time I thought it was his total incompetence. My bad!

Posted by anymouse 2012-01-22 12:56|| 2012-01-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 just another in a long line of men who disappointed her.

Posted by Frank G 2012-01-22 14:21|| 2012-01-22 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Reagan didnt socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you cant condescend.

OMG, she's so looped, she's channeling Johnny Cochran.

Posted by Pappy 2012-01-22 14:46|| 2012-01-22 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 >the president is maddeningly naïve.

That was obvious to anyone with a brain thus ruling out comment writers at the NYT/Grauniad.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-01-22 15:05|| 2012-01-22 15:05|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 Cruel, Frank, cruel.

Posted by Matt 2012-01-22 18:15|| 2012-01-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

#10 But true.

Posted by Pappy 2012-01-22 18:33|| 2012-01-22 18:33|| Front Page Top

#11 just another in a long line of men who disappointed her.

Would that include the Secret Service?

Posted by badanov 2012-01-22 18:52|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-01-22 18:52|| Front Page Top

#12 it would include every male she's ever met

Posted by Frank G 2012-01-22 19:27|| 2012-01-22 19:27|| Front Page Top

#13 And all the men she hasn't met, too, Frank.

Posted by Barbara 2012-01-22 20:05|| 2012-01-22 20:05|| Front Page Top

#14 yep

Posted by Frank G 2012-01-22 20:08|| 2012-01-22 20:08|| Front Page Top

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