Maureen Dowd's Slant

He thinks so. Even coiled with nervous anticipation and bundled in Patagonia on a snowy election day, Rahm Emanuel retained his Black Swan panache. He was 10 minutes early, as usual, for an 8 a.m. campaign stop at the 65th Street El on the South Side. Commuters streaming through were already .. submitted 05/22/12

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WASHINGTON Our Father, who art in pixels,linked be Thy name,Thy Web site come, Thy Net be done,on Explorer as it is on Firefox.Give us this day our daily app,and forgive us our spam,as we forgive those who spam against us, and lead us not into aggregation,but deliver us from e-vil. Amen. submitted 05/22/12

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If only W. had waited for Twitter. And Facebook. And WikiLeaks. Revolutionary tools all, like the fax machine in the Soviet Union. The ire in Tahrir Square is full of ironies, not the least of which is the American president who inspired such hope in the Middle East with his .. submitted 05/22/12

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There are other historic bromances in the news. King George VI and Lionel Logue. Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. But rarely has there been a partnership that rocked the world the way the Chicago odd couple did. The lean, neat One and the hefty, messy o .. submitted 05/22/12

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The doomed caribou gazed calmly across the Alaska tundra at Caribou Barbie. The female caribou could easily have escaped, since it took the Wasilla huntress six shots, two rifles and some help from her dad to bag her prey. (Giving credence to Levi Johnston’s contention that she isn’t all that .. submitted 05/22/12

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You know you’re in trouble when you need Henry Kissinger to vouch for you. But there was the one formerly known as “The One” sitting at a table with a bunch of old, white, Republican dudes, choosing the most abstruse issue on the agenda for his moment to Man Up. With Republicans treating .. submitted 05/22/12

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Talk about your misty watercolor memories. What’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget. The bittersweet story of a preppie for whom things always came too easily and his noodging partner, pressuring with sky-high expectations until that final clash split them apart. submitted 05/22/12

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W. never sweated the small stuff. Unfortunately, he didn’t much sweat the big stuff either. Often the thing the former president was sweating most was, well, sweating — making sure he got in quality time for his cherished workouts. submitted 05/22/12

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Talk about fired up and ready to go. At a Republican victory party suffused with vengeful glee, the man who body-surfed the anti-establishment wave to become the next Speaker of the House was looking very establishment. submitted 05/22/12

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Barack Obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story. To stay president, he will need to show he can understand our story. At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode. But now he acts like he re .. submitted 05/22/12

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As I sat above the Hoover Dam under the broiling sun, I was getting jittery. There was Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, speaking at the dedication of a bridge linking Arizona and Nevada 890 feet above the Colorado River. As the politicians droned on and my Irish skin turned toasty brown, I worried .. submitted 05/22/12

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As Barack Obama struggles to rekindle the magic, one of the most pathetic headlines was the one on a CNN poll last week: “Was Bush Better President Than Obama?” “Americans are divided over whether President Barack Obama or his predecessor has performed better in the White House,” the CNN art .. submitted 05/22/12

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Christine O’Donnell has accomplished the impossible: She’s made Jimmy Carter look like a libertine. The last time the phrase “lust in your heart” swept through American politics was in 1976 when Carter admitted to Playboy that, while he had always been faithful to soul (and sole) mate Rosa .. submitted 05/22/12

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Christine O’Donnell is in a fantasy world. Literally. The pretty Palin Mini-Me identifies with the women of Middle Earth, comparing herself to the female characters in the “Lord of the Rings” novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. “Look at the significance that he gives to Eowyn, the Lady of Roha .. submitted 05/22/12

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If we had wanted earth tones in the Oval Office, we would have elected Al Gore. (Oh, yeah, we did.) On the night we were reminded that George W. Bush ended up in the White House and heedlessly, needlessly started the war with Iraq, President Obama did his Mission Relinquished address from his .. submitted 05/22/12

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