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Last updated on May 20th, 2017 at 07:19 am
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.
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
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
Is there a “professional” category for the Bulwer-Lytton competition?
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
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
#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.
It takes Greenwich Village to raise an idiot.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 23 at 05:30 PM • permalink
O/T, but if the government is to squander squillions on art, we could end up with aircraft crashing left, right and centre.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 23 at 05:33 PM • permalink
It takes a crowbar to force that in there.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2008 04 23 at 06:31 PM • permalink
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
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
Being embraced by Hillary? Now there is a horrible thought.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 04 24 at 08:52 PM • permalink
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.