Amazing: Maureen Dowd Plays the ‘Is He Tough Enough?’ Card Yet Again on BHOO
That would be Barack Hussein Obambi Obama (Obambi being the nickname he has received from some in the Chicago media — a nickname that Dowd has continues to use herself, apparently along with “Barry”):
Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters went behind the TimeSelect firewall, and reports the following:
Dowd reports on a recent interview with Obama ….. and lets us know she found herself, sitting across from him, feeling like the “nun [in the “Bells of St. Mary”] who teaches a schoolboy who’s being bullied how to box.” …..
Dowd clearly has her doubts as to whether Obama has the requisite toughness as either candidate or leader:
- “I’m just not certain, having watched the fresh-faced senator shy away from fighting with the feral Hillary over her Hollywood turf, that he understands that a campaign is inherently a conflict.”
- “If Hillary is in touch with her masculine side, Barry is in touch with his feminine side.”
- “He turned up his nose at his campaign’s sharp response to Hillary and her pinstriped thug, Howard Wolfson.”
- “Do you worry that you might be putting yourself on a pedestal too much? Because people also want to see you mix it up a little. That’s how they judge how you’d be with Putin.”
Along the way, Dowd also refers to Hillary as “Godzilla stomping on Obambi.”
It’s clear that Dowd’s concern about “toughening him up” is more than a short-term one.
MoDo continues to run with the “Obambi” nickname. How sweet it is. :–> It looks like this Hillary-BHOO food fight could be something to behold — that is, if he’s up to it. And the list of people clearly not enamored of Mrs. Clinton appears to be growing, and the people who feel that way more determined than I would have expected.
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UPDATE, 9:55 AM: At this rate, these two could eliminate themselves among thinking voters by the Fourth of July –
- Obama makes laughable and easily disproven claims (from Michelle Malkin and Hot Air). This guy may make John Kerry look honest by comparison.
- Hillary panders in the tradition of Al Gore (HT same Hot Air link). Can you say “condescending”? Apparently Obama did the affectation thing too. More from Instapundit
HilariousHillary: “It’s not only a fake Southern accent, it’s a bad fake southern accent. You’d think that someone who spent years in Arkansas could do better.”
1:00 PM — I would think that what these two said and did in Selma this weekend should be seen as equivalents of the “Dean Scream.” I doubt they will be.
UPDATE 2, 10:15 AM: My oh my, someone’s getting very testy. This quote’s a howler that doesn’t even need a comment –
“She’s slipping in the polls, has a problem with blacks, [Sen. Barack] Obama is gaining, and then she has the governor of her own state equivocating on whether he’ll back her. That’s not good,” the Democrat said.
