Yet another interesting column by Maureen Dowd. She argues that until this election, Barack Obama had been elected in relatively easy, unchallenging contests. His opponents were paper tigers, easily defeated.
And thanks to Senator Clinton, Senator Obama is now toughened from the battle, and ready for the general election with McCain. His arguments are leaner, his strategists nimbler.
It could be me, but Ms. Dowd's columns seem better than a while ago. She seems to have real, interesting insights into the Democratic Primary. Previously, she'd make broad caricatures of various people of power, and armchair psychoanalyze their motivations. And she even wrote a number of columns that became an entire book, lamenting how sexist all men are, when it seems to me she's really lamenting how wealthy men in New York are sexist. Trivial musings on significant topics.
But now I feel like she's hitting real, valid ideas. Has she changed, or have I? Or am I just more interested because she's addressing electoral politics?
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