Monday, February 18, 2008

Dowd Improves on Clinton Speech

Campaigning in Texas, Senator Clinton delivers a zinger at Bush.
''You know, there's a great saying in Texas -- you've all heard it. 'All hat and no cattle.' . . Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle."
Hey, that's pretty good. But what makes for a better line? Hell! Easy. Just pretend she said it about Obama instead of Bush.

That's exactly what Maureen Dowd did.
''Hillary says Obama is “all hat and no cattle.” You’d think she’d want to avoid cattle metaphors, so as not to rile up those with a past beef about her sketchy windfall on cattle futures. She could simply say he’s all cage and no bird.''
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