MoDo Does Her Trick
Maureen Dowd does her one trick today. It’s called “sex panic”, in which Hillary Clinton is portrayed as a man (albeit an impotent man, this time), while Barack Obama is portrayed as a woman, or more specifically, as a girl. It’s the one thing Dowd, who has never been married and has no children of her own, knows how to do.
And when historians trace how her inevitability dissolved, they will surely note this paradox: The first serious female candidate for president was rejected by voters drawn to the more feminine management style of her male rival.
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Hillary was so busy trying to prove she could be one of the boys — getting on the Armed Services Committee, voting to let W. go to war in Iraq, strong-arming supporters and donors, and trying to out-macho Obama — that she only belatedly realized that many Democratic and independent voters, especially women, were eager to move from hard-power locker-room tactics to a soft-power sewing circle approach.Less towel-snapping and more towel color coordinating, less steroids and more sensitivity.
And on and on it goes, for a preview of how the “liberal media” will attack the Democratic nominee. If the nominee DOES somehow wind up to be Clinton, MoDo will write reams of articles about Clinton the castrating bitch. If it’s Obama, expect more columns portraying him as a limp-wristed sissy boy. The similarly never-married childless harridan Christine Flowers who is far less talented than Dowdy (and that’s saying something) has already taken this tack. In what’s probably one of her worst Daily News columns I’ve read in years (and again, that’s saying something), Flowers imagines what it’s like to be in the Obama’s marital bedroom. And as someone who’s never been married herself, her imagination is what you’d expect: pretty damn bad.
BO: OK, let me give you an example. Remember early in the campaign when you used to make fun of me in front of crowds, telling them I didn’t pick up my socks?
MO: I thought it humanized you. Women loved it.
BO: Actually, Sweet Pea, our polls showed that they thought it emasculated me.
MO: More than getting endorsed by Oprah? Just joking. Anyway, it’s always good to avoid looking too perfect.
BO: Yes, Pumpkin, but then you went and told Diane Sawyer that you had to think about whether you could ever support Hillary for president. It looked kind of mean-spirited, to tell you the truth.
Neither of these people seem to have read this quote by Mr. Obama (h/t BMT:
He also told the crowd that McCain was “lassoed” to the policies of George W. Bush. Explaining why he was “tough enough” to run against McCain, he delivered his winning line of the night.
“I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t tough,” Obama said. “Nobody gave me…Listen I’m a black guy named Barack Obama running for president. You can’t tell me I ain’t tough. Shoot!”
…but then, given that both of these women seem to think that if you’re a man you act like a Neanderthal, I think this says more about them than it does about Barack Obama.
Obama can’t be held responsible for the weird sexual hang-ups that led Dowd and Flowers to choose the spinster’s life.
