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October 2008
- Dowd Dumped From Straight Talk Express
  
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Oct 2, 08 10:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Straight talk not only got New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd banned from the McCain-Palin campaign planes, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , it got her marooned in Pittsburgh. After writing a scathing satire of Sarah Palin's candidacy—harsh but hardly unprecedented for the gleefully snarky writer—a stunned Dowd was left behind in the middle of a campaign swing, forcing her to overnight in a local hotel while the rest of the press pack traveled on. More »
- Newman: Proud Liberal, Embarrassed Sex Symbol
  
  New York Times | Oct 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Paul Newman was an unapologetic liberal, Maureen Dowd reminds us in a column on the actor who was also her teenage crush. He made Nixon's enemies list for supporting Eugene McCarthy and opposing the Vietnam War, and had "traits that have been in short supply in the Bush administration," Dowd writes: "shrewdness, humility, decency, generosity, class." He also taught the clueless-in-the-kitchen reporter how to make a good salad. More »
September 2008
- Just You Wait, Charlie Gibson, Just You Wait
  
  New York Times | Sep 10, 08 9:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Maureen Dowd hops a plane to Wasilla, Alaska, where Sarah Palin will hold her first interview as a VP candidate this weekend. Media types might be flocking to the Last Frontier, but Palin has been sequestered from the press, brushing up for her sit-down with Charles Gibson. She's the Eliza Doolittle of the race, "pulling the political equivalent of an all-nighter." More »
- As the Vice's Vices Stack Up, GOP Says 'Life Happens'
  
  New York Times | Sep 3, 08 12:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin has brought an “onslaught of wild soap opera storylines” to the McCain campaign, and his party is defending itself by insisting that “life happens,” Maureen Dowd observes in the New York Times . Palin already has a Troopergate, a pregnant teen daughter, and a National Enquirer headline —and the party that once attacked such narratives is now using them to its advantage. More »
August 2008
- Palin's Story: A Political Chick-Flick
  
  New York Times | Aug 31, 08 11:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin’s rise to the national stage makes for a great political chick-flick, Maureen Dowd observes in the New York Times . The plot: “the 2-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.” And experience, schmexperience —“The PTA is great preparation for dealing with the KGB,” Palin would say after an Alaskan face-off with Vladimir Putin. More »
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dems: Hate
  
  New York Times | Aug 27, 08 12:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A former John McCain strategist described the odd mood in Denver perfectly, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times : “Submerged hate.” That would explain the uneasy proceedings, which have been marked more by Clintonian drama than anything else. At a recent new conference, Dowd observes, “Hillary looked as if she were straining at the bit to announce her 2012 exploratory committee.” More »
- McCain Cheapens the POW Card
  
  New York Times | Aug 24, 08 8:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain’s campaign refers to his prisoner-of-war past so much that it’s becoming a “punch line,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . “By flashing the POW card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated,” McCain “is cheapening his greatest strength," she adds. His apparent obsession is also dangerous because it opens troubling questions about his attitudes toward military conflict. More »
- Another Global Crisis, Another Vacation
  
  New York Times | Aug 17, 08 9:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - “America’s back in the cold war and W.’s back on vacation,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times , observing that as another global crisis begins, the president is again failing to take it seriously. After condemning Russia’s push into Georgia, Bush skipped off to his ranch—where he’s spent 469 days of his presidency. His trip to China, likewise, saw little work and a lot of play in a celebration of China's ascension on the world stage. More »
- Hillary's Crashing Obama's Party
  
  New York Times | Aug 13, 08 11:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite losing the nomination months ago, Hillary Clinton is taking her fight to the convention, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. The New York senator’s continued machinations show she "feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain and improving her odds of being the nominee in 2012." More »
- Preening Edwards Worse Than a Ken Doll
  
  New York Times | Aug 10, 08 11:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The real John Edwards shocker was not so much his affair, but his admission of narcisissm—yet even that confession was oddly self-loving, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . While "it isn’t like we didn’t know that the son of a millworker was a little enraptured by himself," and “certain men assume that power confers sexual privilege,” his self-absorbed confession that he felt “special” and “invincible” leads Dowd to rescind an earlier comparison of Edwards to a Ken doll as “not fair—to Ken.” More »
- McCain Goes Green ... With Envy
  
  New York Times | Aug 6, 08 7:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Why is John McCain, "a man who prides himself on honor," taking the low road in his campaign against Barack Obama? For Maureen Dowd, the reason is clear: the Arizona senator is "pea-green with envy." Even more than Bill Clinton or Jesse Jackson, McCain can't stand that a younger, more handsome politician has usurped his place and become the "new wunderkind in town." More »
July 2008
- Europe Swoons Over Obama
  
  New York Times | Jul 27, 08 12:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - While all of Europe—even the right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy—goes ga-ga over Barack Obama, the would-be president is keeping it real, writes an uncharacteristically un-scathing Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. “If you start believing your own hype, which I rarely do, things’ll turn on your pretty quick anyway,” Obama tells Dowd, . Plus, he’s anticipating “some backlash” among Americans for cozying up with the French. More »
- Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential
  
  New York Times | Jul 23, 08 12:19 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The better Barack Obama’s foreign excursion goes, the more nervous Republicans get, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Images of John McCain happily sharing a golf cart with Bush 41 don’t contrast well with images of Obama happily sharing a helicopter with David Petraeus. But there is also an element of arrogance in the trip. More »
- Obama, Stop Acting Like a Child
  
  New York Times | Jul 13, 08 12:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Caught up in a Fourth of July celebration, Barack Obama agreed to let his daughters be interviewed on "Access Hollywood," a turnaround from his position on his family's privacy and a big slip-up, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. But Obama compounded the error by expressing morning-after regret so vehemently that it just looked like the latest in a series of flip-flops. More »
- Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd
  
  New York Times | Jul 9, 08 1:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Words like "smear" and "gossip" have flown around American Wife , the novel probing the secret life of Laura Bush, but the book itself is pretty harmless, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times . Kings and queens have always inspired art, Dowd notes, and Wife isn’t sensationalist—it’s a well-researched attempt to get inside a guarded but intriguing figure. More »
- How to Avoid Mr. Wrong
  
  New York Times | Jul 6, 08 2:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Celebrity couples aren't always models of marital stability, but as Christie Brinkley, A-Rod, and Madonna join forces to hold the planet hostage, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd goes off in search of those telltale signs of who to avoid ending up at the altar with. She finds her answers in a 79-year-old Catholic priest, Father Pat Connor, who's been giving a "Whom Not to Marry" seminar for 40 years. Avoid swapping rings with: More »

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Dowd Dumped From Straight Talk Express

Newman: Proud Liberal, Embarrassed Sex Symbol

Just You Wait, Charlie Gibson, Just You Wait

As the Vice's Vices Stack Up, GOP Says 'Life Happens'

Palin's Story: A Political Chick-Flick

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dems: Hate

McCain Cheapens the POW Card

Another Global Crisis, Another Vacation

Hillary's Crashing Obama's Party

Preening Edwards Worse Than a Ken Doll

McCain Goes Green ... With Envy

Europe Swoons Over Obama

Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential

Obama, Stop Acting Like a Child

Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

How to Avoid Mr. Wrong