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March 2nd, 2008

Dear Maureen Dowd, please stop effeminizing Obama and criticizing Clinton’s maternal instincts.

Her column today is not worth reading, so I won’t link to it, however it does put Dowd in the running with Bill Kristol for least deserving Times columnist. I know I keep harping on this, but somebody’s gotta do it. That Dowd is using superficial, sexist arguments to make the case Republicans will be trying to make in the fall is inexcusable. With friends like the Times, who needs Republicans.

Are all tough women bitchy dykes? Are all men who don’t want to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran sans testicles? We need to stop boxing candidates into an impossibly unimaginative range of acceptable emotions, mannerisms and ideas. Unless of course, we are ok with the notion of angry old white men deciding the way of things. Because they have done an absolutely fabulous job so far. I just said fabulous. Does that make me a John Edwards Barack Obama? Do I have to pee sitting down now?

–Hat tip to Family Guy for the “sans testicles” line.

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