One sentence in Maureen Dowd’s ridiculous column attacking Michelle Obama in last Sunday’s NY Times explains what’s wrong with Dowd.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08dowd.html?_r=1&ref=maureendowd
She wrote –
In politics and pop culture, optics are all.
There you have it!
Not only does the insular Dowd think pop culture and politics are the same, but she has spent so much time talking to other media figures and DC, New York & Hollywood flacks that she doesn’t understand that there is a lot more than optics to politics.
Here are a few things more important than optics in politics –
Principles
Ideology
Ethics
Vision
Experience
And the most important thing that voters care about – accomplishments!