Maureen Dowd called Bush psychopathic about exercise

Via e-mail from The Anchoress comes this way-back from Ms. Dowd:

I mean, I like to exercise, but W. is psychopathic about it. He interviewed one potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvie Wilkinson III, by asking him how much he exercised. Last winter, Mr. Bush was obsessed with his love handles, telling people he was determined to get rid of seven pounds.

Shouldn't the president worry more about body armor than body fat?

Instead of calling in Karl Rove to ask him if he'd leaked, W. probably called him in to order him to the gym.

The rest of us may be fixated on the depressing tableau in Iraq, where the U.S. seems to be delivering a fundamentalist Islamic state into the dirty hands of men like Ahmad Chalabi, who conned the neocons into pushing for war, and his ally Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who started two armed uprisings against U.S. troops. It was his militiamen who ambushed Casey Sheehan's convoy in Sadr City.

America has caved on Iraqi women's rights. In fact, the women's rights activists supported by George and Laura Bush may have to leave Iraq.

But, as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on "Meet the Press," U.S. democracy in 1900 didn't let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, "we'd all be thrilled," he said. "I mean, women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy."

Yesterday, the president hailed the constitution establishing an Islamic republic as "an amazing process," and said it "honors women's rights, the rights of minorities." Could he really think that? Or is he following the Vietnam model - declaring victory so we can leave?

Of course, it's neat to read her words about W and exercise while she stays as silent as a mime on Obama's apparent obsession but it's even neater to read how wrong she was about Iraq too.

So sweet.

Hey Ms. Dowd... how about writing today about Obama's psychopathology and about how he would've declared victory and left Iraq months ago had he his way.

We'll wait.

Comments

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Confront a conservative with history inconvenient to conservatism, and the argument you get back has something to do with more recent events being more important in some way.

Confront a liberal with history inconvenient to liberalism, and what you get back is a bunch of scolding that you're reading the wrong stuff.

Being a liberal, means for you history always started a day or two ago.

[Mommynator]

Obama looks like he has gynecomastia. Those are NOT sculpted pecs. Look around online or at body-building magazines. THOSE are sculpted pecs.

Maybe it's indicative of a hormone imbalance - not enough testosterone to do the job as president.

And Morgan - liberals have two disorders simultaneously.

Selective amnesia, and ADD/ADHD.