Maureen Dowd: Two Against the One

Shorter Version:

If you're tired of reading campaign news and meaningful commentary, here's the latest installment of  "Campaign Trail Fiction for Mean Girls"  wherein I take a break from obsessive, transparent fantasizing about Barack Obama and vent my general misogyny and my long-standing and inexplicable specific bitterness and envy. It's Hill-arious!

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Molly Ivors doesn't find her envy and bitterness inexplicable.

Everyone's being a grownup now, Mo. Just because you're still sucking on your rejection from Bill, don't assume everyone else is built on the same lines. Mkay?

And if the column left you with a nasty taste in your mouth, Jon Swift's classic "The Crying of Maureen, Dowd" will wash it clean.

Bill Clinton's betrayal seemed to have affected her personally, as if she were the wronged woman. Pulitzer judges felt so sorry for her that they gave her the prize. Few believed it had anything to do with her intelligence or talent.

For years Dowd has wanted to show that she is more than just a Clinton hater. She tried her hand at being a Bush hater, reducing everything the Bushes did to the same kind of pat psychological paradigms she used to describe the Clintons. But though she wrote an entire book and innumerable columns describing everything Bush fils did as evidence of an Oedipal struggle with Bush père, her heart just didn't seem to be in it. And the prospect of Hillary getting the nomination reduced her to panic that she would never be anything more than a Clinton hater. A second Pulitzer Prize was beginning to look more and more distant.... (More...)

And this Swiftian swipe is surely prophetic of MoDo's current love-hate relationship with Obama:

There was something liberating, too, about being an Obama Girl, until Obama, too, betrayed her and she could turn on him along with the rest of the media and ride the Obama backlash to a second Pulitzer.... (More...)

Classic explanations of Dowd's relation to the Clintons. 

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Comments

[Deb Cupples]

Is the first para a Maureen Dowd quote?

[Adam]

Nope. The real article is worse. Seriously, it's probably the worst Maureen Dowd column ever. Think about that.