NYT’s Lib Maureen Dowd Loses Faith In Obama: “The One Did Not Turn Out To Be a Messiah”…
Heartache.
Showtime at the Apollo — Maureen Dowd, NYT
FOR eight seconds, we saw the president we had craved for three years: cool, joyous, funny, connected.
“I, I’m so in love with you,” Barack Obama crooned to a thrilled crowd at a fund-raiser at the Apollo in Harlem on Thursday night, doing a seductive imitation as Al Green himself looked on.
The song would make a good campaign anthem: “Let’s stay together, lovin’ you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad.” Don’t break up, turn around and make up.
Times have been bad and sad, and The One did not turn out to be a messiah, just a mortal politician who ruefully jokes that his talent is hitting the “sweet spot” where he makes no one happy, neither allies nor opponents.
The man who became famous with a speech declaring that we were one America, not opposing teams of red and blue states, presides over an America more riven by blue and red than ever.
The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had a presidency with all the joy of a root canal, dragged down by W.’s recklessness and his own inability to read America’s panic and its thirst for a strong leader.
In an interview with Fareed Zakaria for this week’s Time cover story, the president is maddeningly naïve.
Asked about his cool, aloof style and his unproductive relationship with John Boehner, Obama replied: “You know, the truth is, actually, when it comes to Congress, the issue is not personal relationships. My suspicion is that this whole critique has to do with the fact that I don’t go to a lot of Washington parties. And as a consequence, the Washington press corps maybe just doesn’t feel like I’m in the mix enough with them, and they figure, well, if I’m not spending time with them, I must be cold and aloof. The fact is, I’ve got a 13-year-old and 10-year-old daughter.”
Reagan didn’t socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can’t condescend.
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Maureen? Aren’t the snob parties getting a little old?
Awww, Mo didn’t get an invite to the Mad Hatter party?
Boo frikkin hoo.
“…presides over an America more riven by blue and red than ever.”
Rush said it from the very beginning! He would be the most divisive President ever! Once again, RUSH is RIGHT!
maddeningly naïve.
maddeningly naïve.
maddeningly naïve.
Duh !
Here’s a qustion for you:
Isn’t it supposed to be “Washington press corpse”, not “Washington press corps”??
Elite worms may be turning.
whats with the half white and brown football in obamas hand in zips posted picture,
as we all know obama is not half black hes Arab/white with a touch of brown
Godless heathens like Maureen Dowd thought the skinny 1/2 black guy from Kenya(?) or Hawaii (?) was a messiah.
Obama has been an empty suit since he got crowned a Senator through community agitating.
“just too talented to do what ordinary people do” Barf!!!!!
What like hard work, and not spending dollars if you don’t have them!
With some common sense mixed in!
Instead of “spend it like you got it” attiude!
Muzzie, commie,grifter tratior!
Pathetic and a so what. The only reason she’s talking like this is because she’s a leftist statist. She actually believes that the cure to America’s ills is more government, and some kind of banana republic-type political strongman who calls all the shots. She actually wants some sort of ‘benevolent dictator’ to whip things into what she calls ‘shape’. What her complaint is is that Obama is not being allowed to be a dictator by the rest of the People (and some in Congress), that we still have a democratic republic for a government that limits his power, and that he wasn’t flat-out aggressive and liberal enough. Like I said: she wants someone that has no respect for the Constitution, just like she doesn’t, but someone that backs up that disdain with actions. Rulings that violate enumerated powers and other federal and state laws, rammed down the Peoples’ throats in a Chinese-style authoritarian, communist government is what causes her eyes to light up. Leftist statists like her believe that absolute power DOESN’T corrupt absolutely, when you’ve got messianic, benevolent people in power that are out to do for the People all the things she believes to be the interests of her twisted version of the ‘common good’.
“…..who ruefully jokes that his talent is hitting the “sweet spot” where he makes no one happy, neither allies nor opponents.”
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I don’t know about that. He sure made those folks over at Solyndra, very happy. But that wasn’t really a compromise though, was it.
And while we’re on the subject, the UAW probably enjoyed having Obama seize private property from the General Motors shareholders, and giving it to the UAW. It wasn’t really a compromise since the UAW actually gained something it never had before.
And if we’re going to talk about compromises…….
This is what happens when you vote for a president as a novelty, Maureen.
The shines wore off and the novelty is long gone.
Could have told you that like, Oh, about 5 years ago… You and those of your ilk made him the Messiah not God….. This is a piece of shit do nothing dangerous American hating communist.. and thank yoooooooou so freaking much for infecting us with this parasite.
Of course, MoDoDo has to have an element of blaming Bush for the lack of good weed at her party.
She sounds like some angry, super-bitchy college girl who expected to get drunk and laid at a party that she didn’t pay anything to attend, and now the guys didn’t show up. Her companion instead turned out to have batteries and not boxer shorts.
No, no you’re too busy hosting your own parties.
Maybe you should invite less celebrities and more press corps.
Dick.
Latest Media Spin: Newt Gingrich Is ANGRY (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 22, 2012, 9:40 AM
Here it comes.
The media elites latest attack on Newt – He’s angry!
(New Statsman)
FOX News far left contributor Sally Kohn ran with it this morning.
Look for it from now until November.
The Politico reported:
Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall – – a former X-rated movie theater – – to rapturous applause.
He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. But he has found his shtick, and he is shticking to it.
Newt Gingrich is the angriest man in America.
Mitt Romney will tell you that Barack Obama is a “nice guy” but that he is “in over his head.”
Newt Gingrich will tell you Barack Obama is “the most radical and most incompetent president in our lifetime!”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/latest-media-spin-newt-gingrich-is-angry/
I just wonder why these liberal dumbasses ever believed candidate Obama was so much more than he actually was: a smooth-talking empty suit who had never actually accomplished anything in his life.
I have a feeling if you turn obama upside down on the bottom of his foot or his ass,
it says made in China.
@Isaac Bishop Jr.
Exactly right, she was one of those scrunts rhapsodizing about allowing him to be president forever to make sure he had enough time to transform Amerika into the way it ought to be for the special people.
“…..W.’s recklessness”
I think that W is supposed to be turned upside down making it into an M.
She ain’t fooling anyone, her lamentations aside, given a choice between this disaster of a president and a conservative candidate, MoDoDo bird would vote for Obama again in a heartbeat.
This is only going to push Barry to the left even more he has to have press kissing his feet .He can not run on his record unless his media pimps and whores spin it to make it look great in the Sec 8 houing and unemployment lines.Over a Trillion dollars to GE NBC COMCAST will get his pimps and whores in line.they just want more tax dollars to get on thier knees but they will kiss the ones feet it will just cost us more
You stupid slut with green moss between your toes and worms crawling out your butt.
I think a person with half a brain should have figured Obama as a fraud and a phony from the start of his campaign for President.
@TexasPharmacist says:
January 22, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Of course, MoDoDo has to have an element of blaming Bush for the lack of good weed at her party.
She sounds like some angry, super-bitchy college girl who expected to get drunk and laid at a party that she didn’t pay anything to attend, and now the guys didn’t show up. Her companion instead turned out to have batteries and not boxer shorts.
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Precisely. +10
@Isaac Bishop Jr.
I agree. She is pissed that we are too stupid to realize what a fabulous gift o-hole is. And she is disappointed and impatient with him because he has not grabbed the reins of this country and declared himself dictator.
She is lashing out at o-hole because she is frustrated to see this great socialist opportunity slipping through his fingers because he is a lackluster failed Lightworker who would rather party than bring the “change” he promised.
If he ‘shaped up,’ she would sing his praises again.
Who gives a shit what Maureen, Obama and the new york time have to say? Its like listening to dogs barking, one sound repeated over and over. really annoying.
It is almost certainly a reaction to Mrs O and her flunkies in the WH going ape-s(!) over her colleague 98% ingratiating book on the Obama’s when they demand 100% subservience. No stories about their idiocy and narcissism are allowed. I can only imagine the grief NYT got over that book. This column by the publishers number one gal may be a warning to the Obama’s to get over it and STFU already.
The qualities of “cool, joyous, funny, connected” are not what I desire in a President. Those adjectives would fit better on an entertainer.
I am looking for a competent problem solver with loyalty to the Constitution and American sovereignty.
Welcome to Utopia Maureen. It will only get better with the next four years of dear leader.
“The fact is, I’ve got a 13-year-old and 10-year-old daughter.
I don’t recall their names right now, but I remember seeing them several times in between golf rounds on my last edition of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Aloha Style.”
Poor pitiful frustrated Maureen Dowd. Her Mandingo fantasy featuring Barack Hussein is no longer enough to satisfy her solo sexual pursuits. No more Big O for MoDo. Sad old washed up fishwife of the Wapo.
The media won’t REALLY turn on Obama until AFTER they go all out to get him reelected. I mean, think about it.
The fact is that he was not raised in the United States and does not think like, act like or love this Country like most of us do.
Too bad for the NEW YORK SLIMES but Obummer was never the messiah they expected him to be
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the modo would prefer mainlining battery acid to pulling the lever for anything with a ‘R’ in front of it
you are So much my better, I can barely see your feet from way down here
progressive useful idiot, she would be all gushing if obongo put a ‘C’ before his name on the ballots
@isaac
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Remember this?
Obama laughs at economy On 60 Minutes!
http://tinyurl.com/6rm3p4t
Everyone MUST read the entire article. If you don’t you won’t fully grasp what shallow, egomanical, self-centered, self-important, arrogant know-it-all freaks the Obamas and their entire staff are.
Dowd moans now that all along, Obama just wasn’t that in to her.
Pro 23:6-8…Eat not the bread of him who has a hard, envious and evil eye, neither desire his gang theology… the morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up and lose your “sweet” words…
@Dana:
Perfect.
A lot of folks knew Obumble wasn’t a messiah.
Those same folks also know you’re an idiot Maureen.
Obama is so-oh in love with himself:
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv353/OxyCon/obama_mirror3.jpg
@Little Miss Rainbow:
Did you check out the comments after MoDo’s article?? Some seriously delusional folks out there. Then again, maybe they’re smoking/snorting the same stuff Obongo is? No other explanation for it……
@Little Miss Rainbow: agreed – some of the remarks/observations/revelations are scathingly true:
” . . The One did not turn out to be the Messiah . . . a presidency with all the joy of a root canal . . . the president is maddeningly naive . . . you can’t condescend . . . the president and the first lady do believe in American exceptionalism — their own, and they feel overassaulted and under appreciated . . . They still believed, as their friend Valerie Jarrett once said, that Obama was “just too talented to do what ordinary people do.” . . . he did not seem to comprehend the anxiety that had spawned the Tea Party, or feel any regret . . . with their small circle of Chicago friends, who reinforced the idea that “the American public just did not appreciate their exceptional leader.” . . . The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. . . .
These words are a gift to the GOP – inadvertent for sure, but useful.
|”the one did not turn out to be a messiah’ There you have it, the real problem with western societies : self pity. Embedded so deeply that most people use the terms ‘holocaust’ and ‘messiah’ when they have no idea of what the terms actually mean. What american, living off the fat of the world, could possibly need a messiah? What situation in North America could possibly equate to the holocaust? Folks need to stop feeling sorry for themselves . And politicians need to stop pandering to weak people. The problem isn’t that rich political hacks have no real idea how americans are suffering, it is that they act as enablers of whining americans who need to be reminded that relative to the norm for this planet, there are no poor americans. And this is true whether one is speaking of education, food, shelter, security of person or opportunity for advancement.
It is good to strive to improve peoples lot in life, but it loses it’s virtue when it is disguised as allaying peoples ‘suffering’ when such ‘suffering’ exists only in the dreams of so many people on earth. Maybe the next stimulus package should involve sending whiners to actual third world countries in order to show them the insanity of electing a US president on the basis of ‘hope and change’.
Yeah, well that’s what happens when people go looking for gods within men to fill their god void. Obama is the left’s Caligula. He was a man who liked to pretend he was a god. “There are few surviving sources on Caligula’s reign, although he is described as a noble and moderate ruler during the first two years of his rule. After this, the sources focus upon his cruelty, extravagance, and sexual perversity, presenting him as an insane tyrant.”
‘She reports that Marty Nesbitt indignantly told his fellow Obama pal Eric Whitaker that the president “could get 70 or 80 percent of the vote anywhere but the U.S.” ‘.. sure he could.. in any tinpot African dictatorship like say Kenya..
Dowd is an intellectual featherweight who believes that her sly, acerbic tongue will keep that fact hidden.
Conrad Black describes her as ‘a creature who comes snorting out of the black, brackish water’.
An apt description.
Of course this means she was stupid enough to believe he was a messiah. No surprise there, MoDo. You’ll lick his boots on election day anyway. That’s what whores do.
No Shit, Sherlock!
Maureen Dowd(y) has lost her Kool Aid buzz and is now sucking up to the right side of the aisle.
Too little too late.
“He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays.”
And fell asleep at cabinet and summit meetings.
Have faith Maureen, he will get his halo back after he looses his job.
@Kathy Kattenburg:
Ooooo, big zing there, running out of apologies for the Black Jesus™ ? Bet RR knew there were 50 states in the union.
@Kathy Kattenborg
And yet Reagan managed to take Jimmah Carter’s inflation ridden economy, gas lines for blocks, a falling GDP, rising unemployment rates and Iranian hostages and turn it all around. And let’s not forget that he ended a forty year Cold War by cutting the feet out from under the Soviet Union. Reagan is responsible for the freedom now enjoyed by the people of Poland, Czechoslovakia, former Yugoslavia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, which is why they’ve all erected statues of Reagan.
I’ll take a ‘sleeping’ Reagan over an infantile, useless, destructive, golf playing, joint toking, coke sniffing Obama any day. And so would anybody else who didn’t have their head firmly implanted in their ass.
By which I mean you, Kathy.
Wow. Who knew Maureen “Apple Pan Dowdy” was such a racist?
Mo-Do is proving to be a faux Mary Magdelene for the
Obama-child. She’s also aging faster than my 1967 gallon
bottle of Thunderbird vino. She needs a man to screw
her lights out…before she leaves this Earth as a vestal virgin.
….Obama is just a “diddler”. Desperate women need a hell of
a lot more.
Well that was rich, the Obama’s feeling that ‘we’ disappoint them!
I think Dowd just threw down the race card because the Obama’s apparently feel they are the victims of last 3 years. Say what?