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Modo redeems herself
Maureen Dowd rakes Rove over the coals today for his snide remarks about Obama and the country club. This is the Modo I love and have seen so little of recently.
Obama is the outsider who never really knew his dad and who grew up in modest circumstances, the kid who had to work hard to charm whites and build a life with blacks and step up to the smarty-pants set.
He might be smoking, but it would be at a cafe, hunched over a New York Times, an Atlantic magazine, his MacBook and some organic fruit-flavored tea, listening to Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” on his iPod.
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Comments (3)
Agreed. My favorite passage:
Haven’t we had enough of this hypocritical comedy of people in the elite disowning their social status for political purposes? The Bushes had to move all the way to Texas from Greenwich to make their blue blood appear more red.
June 25, 2008 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I preferred that her primary target was Rove and not a Democratic man, but I could do without the organic tea reference.
Actually, take away the hot date and replace "guy" with "gal", and Rove's commentary would fit Ms. Dowd rather well.
June 25, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah yes, Obama's no country club joining, martini sipping elitist.
He's sitting in a cafe [urban] drinking organic-tea [effete male] reading the New York Times or an Atlantic magazine reading [too liberal] while listening to his ipod [doesn't have a "real" job].
Now that's the kind of elitist the country club set AND the blue collar set can sneer at.
And if Ms Dowd knew her Dylan discography, she'd have picked Desire. That's an album too really put the Rovian fear into folks.
June 25, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
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