Maureen Dowd just can't help herself.

[trumad]

she can't write a single fucking Op-Ed without some type of swipe at Obama.

I gotta ask---what planet does she fucking live on?

Today's piece:

"The billion-dollar Republican campaign should be sweeping the floor with the deflated President Obama after four years of 8 percent-plus unemployment".

"Even if voters are inclined to fire the incumbent, they need reassurance about what the replacement would do".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/dowd-the-son-also-sets.html?_r=0

[MichiganVote]

1. Apparantly 47 percent are sure of what Rmoney will do

[lunatica]

2. Acid bile corrodes your brain like that

She's been regurgitating it for years.

[Drahthaardogs]

3. She is a snarky person who loves to takes jabs at people.

She always has been. Her writing is stuffy and long-winded too.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Her "powers" of analysis end at the personal

Policy, governance, history...it's all off limits. Little Sulzberger will stick with her to the end. She is the poster child for the NYT's descent into comparative irrelevance.

[Berlum]

19. "...poster child for the NYT's descent into comparative irrelevance..."

There you have it.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. This is just par for the course with Dowd

Remember all that crap she wrote about Gore, while essentially giving Junior a pass?

[redqueen]

27. Yep. That's when I stopped bothering with her. nt

[demwing]

6. Dowd writes 800 words trashing Romney, Queen Ann, and the campaign in general

and only 40 words on Obama (which really just seem as if they were meant to set the expectations artificially higher for Romney), and you focus on the Obama bits?

how about these quotes on Romney:

He finally released a tax return from 2011, showing he paid a higher tax rate than required. The press immediately unearthed a Romney quote from July: “If I had paid more than are legally due, I don’t think I’d be qualified to become president.” Case closed.

Or

Aside from Mitt’s penchant for being a piñata, the campaign is a moveable feast of missteps: spending money at the wrong time; putting on biographical ads too late; letting the Obama camp define Romney before he defined himself; staging a disastrous foreign trip; fumbling the convention; and somehow neglecting to tell the candidate that there is no longer any such thing as off the record, if there ever was.

Or

As a candidate, Mitt Romney is awkward, off-putting and hollow, so bad that if he were a Bain company, he would shut himself down.

Or

Ann Romney is clearly feeling the strain. On Radio Iowa, she ordered whining Republicans: “Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring.” She said Americans should realize “how lucky” they were to have Mitt. She sounded entitled, even as her husband dismissed half the country as entitlement junkies.

Or

An Obama adviser calls the Romney campaign “a study in mismanagement,” while the conservative columnist Peggy Noonan deems it “a rolling calamity.” Yet after Tampa, Romney gave promised bonuses totaling $192,440 to at least nine senior campaign staff members working under Stevens.

It was an awesome article, not a swipe at Obama at all.

[Ikonoklast]

7. You can't drink a quart of gin every day before noon and not expect it to affect you sooner or later

Mean Girl MoDo lost it many a year ago.

What she tries to pass off as keen political insight is no more than ninth-grade level sniping by someone desperate to still be considered a 'cool kid'.

[Enrique]

8. i'm not a big Dowd fan, but...

but I don't see anything wrong with that excerpt.

[JNelson6563]

9. I bet she's a DUer

We've got several here with the same affliction.

Julie

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. Dowd has consistently

whacked the Catholic Patriarchy. She has also barreled over Mittens quite a few times.

Do I agree with or enjoy all her columns ? No. However, more than once, she has aimed her snark quite lethally on people and causes that deserve it IMHO.

President Obama can handle her snark.

I can too because I believe she is worth reading. She may make me madder than hell, but she also may make me shout 'Yes!'

[Honeycombe8]

11. Love her. She's one of cleverest, most talented writers around. And she's a liberal.

Are you living with your head in the sand that you don't KNOW that this will be the first time an incumbent will be elected with unemployment over 8%? She is just stating the obvious, something that EVERYONE is talking about. Were it not for that one statistic, there would be an even larger gap between Obama and Romney's numbers.

[stevenleser]

14. Yep, I have a massive professional crush on Dowd. She's incredible. nt

[trumad]

18. Is your head in the sand about her.

You do know her history with Gore?

[Honeycombe8]

29. I love her. She's one of the cleverest, most talented writers in existence right now. nt

[MadHound]

12. Can you be any more petty?

Dowd writes an op/ed damning Romney, his wife, and his campaign manager, yet because she has the gall to speak the truth(after all, the last time a president won reelection with unemployment over eight percent was 76 years ago), you go off on her.

Disgusting, just disgusting. You Obama purity people are becoming positively Orwellian in your insistence that nobody speaks ill of the President, even if it is the truth.

Face it, she is right, according to political wisdom and historical president, Romney should be mopping the floor with Obama. But we got lucky that it is Romney running, instead of somebody with more political and common sense. Count your blessings instead of complaining that every single word that Dowd writes doesn't reflect divine light upon Obama.

[trumad]

17. So voters are inclined to vote Obama out?

Is that how you feel?

So Romney should be cleaning Obama's clock?

Really---is that how you feel.

No you don't...

She's dead wrong on those comments.

Dead wrong.

[MadHound]

23. Some historical reality for you,

No president running for reelection with an unemployment rate over eight percent has won reelection for the past seventy six years. Why? Because as always, it's the economy stupid.

With the economy still sucking in this country(and please, don't try to blow smoke up my ass by saying otherwise), Obama was hugely vulnerable in this election. Hell, even Obama himself has alluded to this on more than one occasion. But the fact of the matter is that the Republicans tossed up a horrible candidate as Obama's opponent, a candidate who has badly managed his campaign and his image. Obama got lucky in that regard, that he got Lurch as his opponent, rather than somebody more along the lines of, oh, say, a Reagan. Don't believe me, ask Carter.

That is historical reality, and political reality as well. You may not like it, but it is reality still the same, deal with it.

And please, don't try to tell me how I feel. It's rude.

[MadHound]

25. Gee, I see you're substituting vulgarity and shock for actual intelligent thought and discourse,

Why does that not surprise me.

Oh, and speaking of Nader, since you brought him up, I thought you might like to read this piece by him.
""There was something missing from the release of a tape showing Mitt Romney pandering to fat cats in Boca Raton, Florida with these very inflammatory words: “There are 47 percent who are with him, (Obama) who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. These are people who pay no income tax.” Romney said his job “is not to worry about those people.”

Hey, Mitt, why start with the 47 percent? Fully 100 percent of the nation’s 500 biggest corporations are dependent on various kinds of corporate welfare – subsidies, giveaways, bailouts, waivers, and other dazzling preferences – while many pay no tax at all on very substantial profits"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/20-7 ''

Ooo, I see the sparks flying now, as your neural circuits overload and start to short out.

[Major Hogwash]

26. Being a Nader fan at DU is a lonely job, isn't it?

Sort of like being the Maytag repairman, "the lonliest job in town".

[MadHound]

28. My, you assume a lot of things,

You assume that I'm a Nader fan, you assume that that I voted for Nader at some point. You know what they say about ass u me?

So, do you have any comment on Nader's piece that I linked to?

Better yet, do you have any comment on the OP, and the historical reality that no President who has had unemployment over eight percent has ever won reelection?

Or are you here simply to throw bombs and insult people?

[DefenseLawyer]

13. She's a tad self-important

But I don't think that's a swipe. A bad economy generally spells trouble for an incumbent.

[jsr]

15. I see nothing wrong with her attacking Romney severely on a regular basis

[sammytko]

16. She switches every other column. She's got to keep both sides up in arms.

One day you love her, the next you hate her.

I prefer Gail Collins. She hates mitt 24/7/365. 366 on leap years!

[Major Hogwash]

20. "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"

I like Maureen McCormick better.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Stylistically It's A Great Line But As A Factual Matter It Lacks Context

It would be like a loved one of a critically injured accident victim telling the ER physician he let his partner die.

[madokie]

24. At one time years ago I actually liked her

I'm not sure if I changed or if she did or even maybe it was I was seeing more there than there was to see

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. Coming into a Presidency following an economic collapse

doesn't allow Obama to be treated like a normal incumbent but she's oblivious to that.

[uponit7771]

31. She knows that, it's a GOPer meme that she's repeating ... seems she's got a bone to pick