Damn! I was hoping to save my one diary of the day for something profound and influential but here I am writing another essay on Maureen Dowd again. Fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck.
Her latest piece of work, Deign or Reign? has some subtle, esoteric allusions that I just have to point out to the unenlightened in case they miss her cunning wit. It's clear that MoDo is not writing these columns for the unwashed masses. She's writing for the literati who for some reason haven't graduated past Senior High School English.
Oh, she has Obama pegged alright. She's absolutely correct about the unsubtle threat that Michelle Obama made. Michelle practically holds a loaded gun to Obama's temple and says, "Vote for him now or you'll never see him run again."
Like he can't wait 4 more years and get some seasoning. It's too much to ask of him to sit on his hands and let a more experienced politician like Hillary or Edwards have a crack at fixing a broken government. Nooooo, it is too stressful on Michelle and the kids to campaign. Like 4 years in the White House are going to be a cakewalk.
But I digress. This is about MoDo.
What the f^&* does she have against Hillary? She thoroughly enjoys trashing her and making her seem like the most heartless person who ever inhabited the White House. How stupid does Maureen think we are anyway? Well, let's go to the piece of work:
Has Hillary truly changed, and grown from her mistakes? Has she learned to be less stubborn and imperious and secretive and vindictive and entitled? Or has she merely learned to mask her off-putting and self-sabotaging qualities better? If elected, would the old Hillary pop up, dragging us back to the dysfunctional Clinton kingdom? She is speaking in a soft, measured voice in these final days, so that, as with Daisy Buchanan, you have to lean in to listen. But is she really different than she was in the years when she was so careless about the people around her getting hurt by the Clinton legal whirlwind that she was dubbed the Daisy Buchanan of the boomer set?
Ok, I don't know about the "imperious, secretive and vindictive and entitled" stuff she's talking about. But I think that if a bunch of well-financed Republican maniacs were giving me what was the equivalent of an eight year public pelvic examination, I'd be a little resentful as well, especially when the tiniest indiscretions were inflated into full blown genital warts. Yeah, that might make me a tad peeved, but not of my friends and colleagues. I'd be most "imperious, secretive and vindictive and entitled" towards members of the press who indulged in exposing me with sophomoric glee.
But look at that sentence I bolded. Who was responsible for ruining Clinton administration officials with legal bills? Was it the Clintons? Or was it the Javerts (Oooo, look Maureen, I know Victor Hugo!) of Ken Stsrr's office? No one said the Republicans had to do what they did in the 90's. They did it because they wanted to ruin people in the Clinton WH. They wanted to disrupt business and they wanted Bill out of there. It doesn't matter that the rest of the country didn't and couldn't fathom why Maureen and her pals were jumping into the melee. But then, Maureen isn't one of "us".
No. Maureen knows all about F. Scott Fitzgerald and knows just what Gatsby heard in Daisy Buchanan's voice. Her voice was "full of money". That was its "inexhaustible charm".
What is it with MoDo and her friends and money? Are only Republicans allowed to make money? If a politician wants to run for president, isn't money a requirement? How come we're not getting on Obama's case for having money? Where is all that money coming from, especially when corporations are limited to, what, $2000.00? I've been getting mailers from Bill and Hill for years and I don't even live in NY state. Does she resent that Bill is making money? Should a former president just agree to live in genteel poverty?
No, what MoDo is saying is that Hillary is a careless, spoiled, thoughtless heiress whose money puts her above the law.
Really, Maureen? Didn't you read the reports that came out of Starr's investigations? Not only was she not above the law, but Hillary wasn't ever guilty of anything that needed to be hushed up or papered over with money. And her record is progressive so there's no THERE there as far as cutting special deals for corporations. So, I don't get it.
But that's Maureen for you. Just pick some crazy half-assed literary metaphor and pin it on Hillary, whether it's appropriate or not. I guess Lady Macbeth is considered trite these days.
So, Maureen Le Fey just keeps on conjuring invective out of thin air.