Mo and Barry

One of these days, this blog will let me post new material again. I'll keep posting until that day.

I don't usually enjoy the writings of Maureen Dowd of the New York Times except that she can turn a phrase that makes me want to say, "I wish I'd written that." Here is her description of how Barack Obama blew off West Virginia.

Obama breezed through West Virginia, the state he couldn’t charm even wearing a flag pin and promising to invest in “clean coal.” Fast Barry shot some pool Monday afternoon at Schultzie’s Billiards in South Charleston, including prophetically sinking an eight-ball in the pocket, and then fled from Hillary territory to pursue white, blue-collar workers in battleground states and convince them not to vote for John McBush.

Obama is acting the diffident debutante, pretending not to care that he was given a raspberry by a state he will need in the fall. He was dismissed not only by the voters Hillary usually gets, but was also edged out in blocs that usually prefer him — the under-30 set, college graduates and affluent voters.

Her entire column is here.