"There Will Be Blood," by Maureen Dowd

[jefferson_dem]

There Will Be Blood
By MAUREEN DOWD
LOS ANGELES



Suddenly, everyone was in the mood for love. Would the scream team turn into the dream team?

After Thursday’s Democratic debate, CNN’s Carol Costello said there were “heart palpitations” and “ripples of joy” in the glittery Kodak Theater audience at the idea of a Hillary-Obama or Obama-Hillary ticket, after he was gallant with her and she laughed gaily with him.

How could Hollywood not fall in love with Hollywood’s favorite plot? After lots of sparking and sparring, the couple falls into each other’s arms in the last scene.

The would-be matchmakers didn’t seem to know that in Hollywood, couples who have chemistry on screen often don’t like each other off screen, and ones who are involved off screen often don’t have any chemistry on screen.

And so it is with Barack and Hillary. Thursday night was not the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Just a beautiful, dare we say, fairy tale.

Hillary is done with playing a supporting role to a political natural. And why would Obama want to follow in the frustrated footsteps of Al Gore, who became Bill Clinton’s vice president only to find that the job was already taken by Hillary? Think about being third banana to Billary? There won’t be any Dick Cheney-style coup in Hillary’s White House.

“Can you imagine being in that position?” a member of Team Obama said tartly. “Well, neither can he. It’s just part of their campaign to marginalize him. I think they’re pushing every freaking button they can right now.”

Team Obama refers to the Clinton campaign as “Jaws” because “just when things are quiet, they keep trying to come back and capsize the boat.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/opinion/03dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

[AX10]

1. More hate spewed from the left's own Ann Coulter.

Shameless. :puke:

[robbedvoter]

3. Left's own? Nothing about Modo is "left" Kathy Bates in Misery - with fantasies

about Bill...

[AX10]

5. She is desperate for attention.

[neutron]

9. She Satirizes Gore too.

She's fun to read, tho I seldom agree.

[billbuckhead]

7. She's not really a lefty, just equal opportunity cynical

:eyes:

[BootinUp]

2. Dowd exaggerates anything to do with Clintons

so take it with a grain of salt.

[JackORoses]

4. the Shaheen Apology is interesting to hear about

In front of her plane, Hillary apologized to her rival about Shaheen. Obama replied that he was concerned at the pattern of insinuations and attacks from her supporters and that a message needed to be sent from the top that sharp attacks were not, as Hillary had put it, “the fun part.” He brought up another recent example: the Clinton volunteer in Iowa who had been asked to leave after forwarding sleazy e-mail falsely claiming that Obama was a Muslim.

Then, according to witnesses from the Obama camp, Hillary got very agitated and was “flapping her arms.” All her simmering grievances spilled out during the 10-minute talk. She was still furious about David Geffen’s searing interview with me the previous February, charging that she and Bill lie with such ease “it’s troubling.” While Geffen’s fund-raiser for Obama spurred the column, Obama knew nothing about the interview until it appeared. Hillary was also angry that Obama had called her “disingenuous,” telling Newsweek that it was a contradiction for her to claim that her tenure as first lady gave her more experience but then refuse to release her first lady papers from Bill’s library, saying she had no control over them.

At some point, an Obama intimate recalled, he “gently put his hand on her arm to chill her out.” The tall senator often leans down to put a friendly hand on the shoulder of his fellow senators — male and female — on the Senate floor, and they seem charmed by the gesture.

But Senator Clinton and her circle were not. They had been surprised and troubled by what they saw as his attempt to grab her arm and hold her in place while they talked, an unpleasant flashback to Rick Lazio getting in her space. As Queen Bee of the Clinton hive, Hillary has created a regal force field that can be breached only with permission, so something that wasn’t even a jostle was perceived as a joust.

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That's pretty funny.
I can really see her flapping her arms...

[NJObamaWoman]

6. LMAO "Jaws". Ya'll know they kill Jaws in the end right? I love the Obama team.

Damn I wish I was behind the scenes. I wanna know what Barack and Michelle really think about the Clintons. Oh to be a fly on the wall.

[KennedyGuy]

8. more bore from Jeffies little darling...

he love those "mean girls"

[ruggerson]

10. "according to witnesses from the Obama camp"

That's all you need to read. The entire story is wrapped up in this one sentence.

[godai]

11. Great article. Sounds like the truth hurts.

There will be no dream team.