This Obama character certainly is aloof
Now the thrill is dimmed, with a series of grinding, petty fights ahead. Certainly, there’s a sense among Democrats that they’re happy Obama is president; the race was close enough that they got a metallic taste of how bad the country would have been if that bunch of backward Republicans got in.
But the cost of W.’s misbegotten wars and his mishandling of the economy overwhelmed Obama’s first term. And Obama underwhelmed on traits everyone thought he’d excel at: negotiating, selling, charming, scaring, bully-pulpiting, mobilizing, dealing with Capitol Hill and, especially, communicating. It’s taken the White House four years to develop a coherent message: Pay your bills.
Washington’s mood is as gray as the weather, full of burning Republicans and yearning Democrats.
We’re facing default. Again.
We’re mired in partisan trash-talking. Still.
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I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
NavyMustang on January 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Maureen Dowd : Obama :: Murphy Brown : Murphy Brown’s baby
(the thrill is gone; time to move on from it…)
apostic on January 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Isn’t “Aloof” a code word for “Boy”?
portlandon on January 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Stop racking up more bills when you haven’t even paid the old ones. The White House clearly doesn’t understand this, and has racked up more bills in just four years than any President in history. Congrats, Maureen. You voted for it, and you got it.
Boo hoo. You voted for this fraud and his administration of criminals.
Deal with it.
Good Lt on January 16, 2013 at 11:29 AM
It’s all Bush’s fault, you see.
She is sooo stuck on stupid.
UltimateBob on January 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM
She wallows in the beltway fog.
Youngs98 on January 16, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Anonymous sources tell me that Maureen Dowd scrubs her hairy butt with an obama-shaped loofah.
Pork-Chop on January 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM
You misspelled “a doofus”.
The Rogue Tomato on January 16, 2013 at 11:35 AM
I pay my bills. People who aren’t even born yet will be paying the Obama Campaign’s bills. I don’t need the most financially irresponsible person to have ever lived lecturing me about paying bills.
forest on January 16, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Uh-Uh.
National Healthcare that 65% of the public never wanted took up much of his time.
And golfing, chatting with Letterman, dancing with Ellen, strutting on the View, shooting hoops, vacationing in Hawaii, catering to Muslims and terrorists, spending money we didn’t have.
Someone send Mo-Do a seeing eye dog.
fogw on January 16, 2013 at 11:37 AM
And she has to use scouring powder, too. That’s why her face looks the way it does.
MelonCollie on January 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM
I was all too aware that lib “thought leaders” were feverishly selling the idea that Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock would become co-presidents if Obama lost, but I didn’t realize they had convinced themselves in the process.
Kataklysmic on January 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Racist.
Jaibones on January 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Some of us marched with Brother Malcolm X and Dr. King to try to end this kind of racism.
Typical white woman terror.
CorporatePiggy on January 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Mishandling? Let’s see. After the 9/11 attacks and the .com bubble burst the economy went in the toilet and unemployment skyrocketted. Then Bush implemented his eeeeeeevil tax cuts (which were for EVERYBODY, not just the rich). Surprise, surprise, the economy improved and unemployment took a nose dive. Things were fine until a year after the DEMOCRATS took over both the house and the senate. Yet this is all Bush’s fault.
DethMetalCookieMonst on January 16, 2013 at 11:59 AM
No, we’re not, you fool.
Please stop taking everything 0bama says as the gospel truth.
UltimateBob on January 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Yes, an $80 billion tax increase on the rich will make that $1 trillion deficit just vanish. Poof.
Math can be hard but not that hard, Ms. Dowd.
SteveMG on January 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Silly, me I thought she was saying, “A douche.”
UltimateBob on January 16, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Hah. Perfect. /closethread
ramesees on January 16, 2013 at 12:45 PM
“Inherited” into his 2nd term.
(verbaluce, read it slowly and break it down into parts if you need to. You can do it. We believe in you.)
rogerb on January 16, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Her supply of Scotch must have run out again.
CurtZHP on January 16, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Put down the Cucumber Maureen.
ToddPA on January 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Yeah Mo, Obama’s policies are just perfect, but he’s not a schmoozer, so the stupid Republicans won’t let him have his way in his second term, after Bush ruined his first one.
Right.
drunyan8315 on January 16, 2013 at 1:26 PM
I’d be able to bear MoDo’s angst a lot better if I wasn’t going to suffer from her poor choices too.
Bob's Kid on January 16, 2013 at 1:31 PM