NYT again: this time, Maureen Dowd, the allegedly liberal columnist.
He’s more like the aloof father who’s turned the Situation Room into a Seminar Room.
Even as some kind of political shorthand, it ought to be a finger-wagging no-no in a democracy to hold the president to the standard of the “strong father” of us all. “Eternal Father, strong to save.” “Stalin, the Little Father of the nations.” Let's get it right. The president is a public servant elected for a term of years to perform various tasks on behalf of the nation. If you chide him for failing to be the “strong father,” pretty soon you're going to expect him to have infallible foreknowledge of each and every dastardly terrorist plot-- ouch, I just trod onto the electrified astroturf of David Brooks's synthetically conservative column.
Maureen Dowd is obsessed with fathers and father figures, as her columns on the Bushies attest. It's pretty tiresome.
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