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 <title>Re: Dowd: Easley &#039;awkward&#039;</title>
 <link>http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/dowd_easley_awkward#comment-7354</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Our discourse will be much better off once Dowd is put to pasture.  To me, she represents the worst of the DC in-crowd mentality, where appearances and other trivial stuff are given more importance than substantive policy.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:35 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>dahedgehog</dc:creator>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;LOL..whatta great delivery, Maureen!  Aint it the truth!...lolol...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What about all those jet trips?  Read all about it at&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;www.CarolinaJournal.com&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:19:35 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>FFC1304</dc:creator>
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	&lt;div class=&quot;field-item&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maureen Dowd has weighed in on Gov. &lt;a href=&quot;/dome/profiles/mike_easley&quot;&gt;Mike Easley&amp;#39;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/under_the_dome/the_easley_obama_fist_bump&quot;&gt;fist bump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11dowd.html?_r=1&amp;amp;oref=slogin&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; published today, the caustic New York Times columnist writes about Michelle Obama&amp;#39;s role in her husband&amp;#39;s presidential campaign:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;She’s going to take her big microphone on &amp;quot;The View&amp;quot; as a co-host next week, when she will no doubt try to put her remark about her belated pride in her country in context. And she clearly scored a pre-emptive hit both with her chic style — Vogue’s André Leon Talley declared in The Times the dawn of &amp;quot;a black Camelot&amp;quot; — and with her playful fist pump that now has older white guys, like North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley, awkwardly trying to do it with Obama. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 <category domain="http://projects.newsobserver.com/tags/barack_obama">Barack Obama</category>
 <category domain="http://projects.newsobserver.com/tags/maureen_dowd">Maureen Dowd</category>
 <category domain="http://projects.newsobserver.com/tags/michelle_obama">Michelle Obama</category>
 <category domain="http://projects.newsobserver.com/tags/mike_easley">Mike Easley</category>
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 <category domain="http://projects.newsobserver.com/project/under_the_dome">Under the Dome</category>
 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:06:01 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>ryanteaguebeckwith</dc:creator>
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