Molly on Iowa and SOTU
Molly's right there on this one melding the Iowa primary and the State of the Union address. She opens:
01.22.04 - AUSTIN, Texas -- Love those Iowa results. Nothing better than a huge political scrum where the front-runner stumbles, the guy everyone wrote off for dead six weeks ago comes roaring back, an unknown emerges, an old war-horse drops out -- a wonderful scenario. Let's hear it for upset, confusion and the conventional wisdom with egg on its face. A banana cream pie right in the kisser for everyone who pretends they know how a political race will turn out. Happy days. Ain't democracy grand?
She's a Dean enthusiast but not a die-hard. She has trouble with Kerry's charisma or lack thereof. "My biggest reservation about the result is John Kerry, who could take the excitement out of a soccer riot. " Ouch!
Turning on the Washington press corps she says:
"The Washington press corps can do the most amazing imitation of a clique of snotty high school kids, and they were determined to find that Dean was not good enough for their clique from the beginning. "
Turning to the State of the Union, she notes:
Meanwhile, Bush was running the same old plays in his State of the Union Address: fear, threat, danger, terror, war, enemies. He even trotted out the weapons of mass destruction again, just as though they had actually existed. And the media accuse Howard Dean of being negative!
A two-fer, nailing not only W but also the media. A real equal opportunity offender she!
Interestingly, she doesn't roar down the stretch as we've seen her do in recent times. Instead she closes almost gently on a note of wry acknowledgement of our leader's . . . I don't know, charm is not the word, so you pick your own.
Posted by Donald Douglas at January 23, 2004 06:14 PMComments
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