Hillary and Obama - The Final Debate

If any of you "voted blindly" for this article, you missed out on one of the best political columns I have read in years.

With the late William F. Buckley resting peacefully for the foreseeable future, I'd like to file a motion to nominate Maureen Dowd as the (new) world's best political writer.

Maureen Dowd is an amazing writer. The above column was phenomenal, even by her lofty standards.

Seriously though people, if you voted on this story but didn't read it, you are doing yourself a major disservice. This piece transcends the inherent restrictions on creative, artistic and poetic license that those covering a major presidential primary election would normally have to adhere to. You just have to read it for yourself to see what I'm talking about.

The column explored a fictional "final debate" between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Oh, and one more thing: Unlike all their previous debates, this debate is set behind closed doors! Needless to say, the gloves came off early and both candidates came out swinging, as Dowd manufactured a series of heated, back-and-forth exchanges between Barack and Hillary --- back-and-forth verbal exchanges that kept ripping away at each other all the way until the end of the article.
In the actual dialog and the feeling of a very heated atmosphere surrounding the two Democrats as they exchange barbs, Dowd -- in a matter of a couple fictional paragraphs -- manages to take the entire democrat primary election season (one of the most exciting in recent history) and encapsulate all the many months, interviews, criticisms, missteps, misspeaks, debates, fake sniper fire, Superdelegates and most importantly the vitriolic tone the campaign grown accustomed to -- on a single sheet of paper.

Folks, this piece is a true diamond-in-the-rough, and though I read a lot of newspapers and columnists on a daily basis, This column by Maureen Dowd is a literary work-of-art in an era where most journalism is complete crap, and most editorials worse than crap.

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- FatLester
If any of you "voted blindly" for this article, you missed out on one of the best political columns I have read in years.

With the late William F. Buckley resting peacefully for the foreseeable future, I'd like to file a motion to nominate Maureen Dowd as the (new) world's best political writer.

Maureen Dowd is an amazing writer. The above column was phenomenal, even by her lofty standards.

Seriously though people, if you voted on this story but didn't read it, you are doing yourself a major disservice. This piece transcends the inherent restrictions on creative, artistic and poetic license that those covering a major presidential primary election would normally have to adhere to. You just have to read it for yourself to see what I'm talking about.

The column explored a fictional "final debate" between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Oh, and one more thing: Unlike all their previous debates, this debate is set behind closed doors! Needless to say, the gloves came off early and both candidates came out swinging, as Dowd manufactured a series of heated, back-and-forth exchanges between Barack and Hillary --- back-and-forth verbal exchanges that kept ripping away at each other all the way until the end of the article.
In the actual dialog and the feeling of a very heated atmosphere surrounding the two Democrats as they exchange barbs, Dowd -- in a matter of a couple fictional paragraphs -- manages to take the entire democrat primary election season (one of the most exciting in recent history) and encapsulate all the many months, interviews, criticisms, missteps, misspeaks, debates, fake sniper fire, Superdelegates and most importantly the vitriolic tone the campaign grown accustomed to -- on a single sheet of paper.

Folks, this piece is a true diamond-in-the-rough, and though I read a lot of newspapers and columnists on a daily basis, This column by Maureen Dowd is a literary work-of-art in an era where most journalism is complete crap, and most editorials worse than crap.
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