“Why, that Obama won’t let us make fun of him at all! He’s such an uptight, controlled, anal, humorless sacred cow…”
“Oh my God, I think I’m on to something! And I finally get to use the word ‘aeolist’!”
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The idea that Obama is not funny is simply not true. We’ve all seen clips of him riffing at various speeches; his timing is quite good and he knows how to play his audience. What pisses MoDo off is that Obama is not a comical figure. As we know, a larger-than-life buffoon who can endo on a Segway and choke on pretzels while watching football is precisely what the average diner-loving American looks for in a leader. We totally dig Presidents like that! It’s not like Presidents do anything important other than provide entertainment for the beltway elites and late-night comics. The more incompetent, the better! If Jay Leno’s writers are happy, I’M happy. America is too big to fail! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
Shoot me.
MoDo isn’t really complaining that Obama isn’t funny. She’s complaining that she has a hard time making him an object of ridicule. Basically, she’s upset that he’s making her job difficult.
Quoting Dowd: “John McCain’s Don Rickles routines — “Thanks for the question, you little jerk” — can fall flat. But he seems like a guy who can be teased harmlessly…”
I guess she forgot the cunt thing…
Oh, come on now people. MoDo has been an Obama shill from the beginning. Keep throwing supporters under the bus and you’ll have to buy a fleet.
She’s saying that all this sanctimonious crap is going to back-fire. And that’s true.
Oh, come on now people. MoDo has been an Obama shill from the beginning.
Considering that Dowd has been writing hit pieces on Obama since early 2007 and into 2008, I think we can safely say, With “friends” like that, who needs enemies?
Dowd hates Obama very slightly less than she hates Hillary. Don’t mistake that for her liking him.
She’s been itching to hit Obama for months. But Hillary and self-cutting are the only things that can get Modo off and she couldn’t bear to wear long-sleeved shirts throughout the entire primary. Now Obama will have to do.
I assumed meingold’s comment was sarcasm until I read who wrote it.
Calling him “Obambi” is shilling?
I don’t read her. Has she feminized him yet?
Has she ever done anything else with a Democratic candidate? The only one she didn’t feminize was Hillary Clinton.
“Bring it on, Ozone Democrats! Because if Obama gets elected and there is nothing funny about him, it won’t be the economy that’s depressed. It will be the rest of us.”
...well, actually Ms. Dowd, the economy will still be depressed — that’s what happens when Republicans are given free reign and no accountability. And Surprise! The “rest of us” are already depressed, but it’s not our mental depression that’s causing our economic problems (sorry Phil Gramm), it’s the state of our economy, our Constitution, and our pride as Americans that’s causing us to be depressed.
So, rather than being snide about Obama not being funny (which is false anyway), if he gets in office and fixes some of our problems maybe our sense of humor will come back.
Maybe exposing MoDo and her fellow mindless Villagers for the frauds they are will be amusing. Even if it isn’t, it sure needs to be done…