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IT TAKES A MODO

Determined to include Hillary Clinton’s “it takes a village” line somewhere in today’s column, Maureen Dowd devises a perfectly elegant solution:

Now that Hillary has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/23/2008 at 09:34 AM

  1. Obama seeking refuge in a village? Where all those gun-toting God-botherers live? I don’t see it.

    And frankly, Dowd’s use of this phrase (taken from the title of Hillary’s ghost-written book) makes no sense to me.

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 23 at 09:44 AM • permalink

  2. Paco, if you think that’s bad, don’t hit the link. Here’s fair warning: 

    They also cringe as Bill continues his honey-crusted-nut-bar meltdown.

    Posted by Hanyu on 2008 04 23 at 09:55 AM • permalink

  3. I’m so glad that the Fish Wrap Of Choice turned off their firewall, and returned MoDo to the blogosphere.  So much gold to mine, so much entertainment, so little time….

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 23 at 10:01 AM • permalink

  4. it will take a village

    More like a walled community somewhere north of Scarsdale…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 23 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  5. Is there a “professional” category for the Bulwer-Lytton competition?

    Posted by Merlin on 2008 04 23 at 10:42 AM • permalink

  6. The Ghost of Vince Foster
    Appears to Barack Obama:

    If finally you win this race
    And offer her the VP slot,
    Beware her hands when you embrace
    Or you’ll regret that you did not.

    Posted by lyle on 2008 04 23 at 11:15 AM • permalink

  7. Oh sweet jeez.  lyle again.  Why do I always have to post a comment right after lyle?

    I suspect a conspiracy.

    Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 23 at 11:19 AM • permalink

  8. Okay, what I was going to say before lyle beat me to the comment page was, the phrase “It take a village ...” is actually an African proverb:  “It takes a village to raise a child”. 

    What is Dowd trying to say?  Obama needs to go back to Africa to escape Hillary?  Isn’t that a bit racist?

    Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 23 at 11:23 AM • permalink

  9. Greenwich Village, most likely.

    Posted by mojo on 2008 04 23 at 12:45 PM • permalink

  10. #2 Hanyu: Well, let’s figger this h’yar thang out. Does a honey-crusted nut bar melt? Of its own - whaddayacallit - volition? In fack, if ya left one layin’ on the sidewalk ‘round about the middle of August, on a hot, cloudless day, would it melt a’tall? A Milky Way might; but a nut bar? I think you caught granny Dowd in another one a’ them thar mixed metaphor thangs.

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 23 at 12:59 PM • permalink

  11. it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival.

    It will take a small city to explain the nuances of metaphor to MoDo.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2008 04 23 at 01:49 PM • permalink

  12. The villagers will be far too bitter to help Obama. He better hope they don’t use their guns, too.

    Posted by PW on 2008 04 23 at 01:52 PM • permalink

  13. It takes a village? It’s chockfull of village idiots. MoDo comes off like the village chieftain.

    Posted by CB on 2008 04 23 at 04:18 PM • permalink

  14. It takes Greenwich Village to raise an idiot.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 23 at 05:30 PM • permalink

  15. O/T, but if the government is to squander squillions on art, we could end up with aircraft crashing left, right and centre.

    Art air defence installation.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 23 at 05:33 PM • permalink

  16. It takes a crowbar to force that in there.

    Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2008 04 23 at 06:31 PM • permalink

  17. There are actually writers on the left of the political spectrum capable of the kind of sharp commentary we expect of a Steyn on the right.

    Among them: Christopher Hitchens and Camille Paglia.

    For a hard, visceral look at Hillary Clinton, read this by Paglia from the (UK) Telegraph newspaper:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/19/wuspols219.xml

    It slams Hillary pretty thoroughly. Worse, I have the sneaking suspicion that every word of it is true.

    Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2008 04 23 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  18. #15 I expect we’ll see a lot more laser yart once the ADF is abolished and the money used for yaartz funding.

    Posted by Rod C on 2008 04 23 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  19. #17 To me, nothing more than another example of a so called “intellectual elitist”  turning on another of its own kind -Yawn!!

    Posted by Rod C on 2008 04 23 at 07:08 PM • permalink

  20. Wron

    Okay, what I was going to say before lyle beat me to the comment page was, the phrase “It take a village ...” is actually an African proverb:  “It takes a village to raise a child”.

    Do you have a source for the ‘africanness’ of the proverb, as I have seen only Mme Clinton as the originator.

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 04 23 at 07:16 PM • permalink

  21. #20 Big place, Africa!

    Asia too.  But we are always being lectured by one know-all or t’other about how we must get “closer to Asia” Singapore? Samarkand? Siberia?

    Posted by Rod C on 2008 04 23 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  22. What’s a modo?  I want one!

    Posted by blogagog on 2008 04 24 at 03:09 AM • permalink

  23. Being embraced by Hillary?  Now there is a horrible thought.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 04 24 at 08:52 PM • permalink

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