Maureen Dowd, "We Offer More Than Ankles, Gentlemen": A Coterie of White Male Boobs

In her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "We Offer More Than Ankles, Gentlemen" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/opinion/sunday/dowd-we-offer-more-than-ankles-gentlemen.html?_r=0), Maureen Dowd complains that Obama is populating his second term cabinet with white men:

"It’s passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plummiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

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It may be because the president knows what a matriarchal world he himself lives in that he assumes we understand that the most trusted people in his life have been female — his wife, his daughters, his mother, his grandmother, his mother-in-law, his closest aide, Valerie.

But this isn’t about how he feels, or what his comfort zone is, or who’s in his line of sight. It’s about what he projects to the world — not to mention to his own daughters."

Although not as surprised, I am just as offended as Maureen. Given the president's penchant for narcissism, this administration is indeed "about how Obama feels."

Obama has surrounded himself with a coterie of "white dudes"? Sorry, Mo, but make that stupid white dudes.

By now it should be clear that Obama is not seeking to populate his second term cabinet with the best and the brightest. I never cared for Hillary Clinton, who is also enamored of herself, but intellectually, there is no denying that she can run circles around Kerry, who was foolish enough to refer to Syria's Bashar al-Assad as his "dear friend."

Brennan? Peculiar how when Brennan was listed as a candidate for the position of CIA director four years ago, he walked away owing to questions regarding interrogation of terror suspects while Bush was president. But let bygones be bygones.

Hagel? Perhaps someone would care to identify his signature legislative achievements while a senator. And let's just ignore Hagel's refusal to sign a Senate letter calling upon the EU to brand Hezbollah, which was responsible for the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing that killed 241 American soldiers, as a terrorist organization.

Lew? He's probably brighter than the others, but when has he ever spoken of the need for bank reform? Wall Street is desperately in need of reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the Uptick Rule (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2010/02/reinstate-uptick-rule-immediately.html), and Lew is not the person to champion constraints upon American financial institutions.

It began with "Change." It metamorphosed into "Forward."

It's now time for "Close Your Eyes and Turn the Other Cheek."

Thanks, Obama, for drafting these mediocre white men to do your bidding. It just can't get any worse.