2012 Presidential Debate: Hilary Clinton vs. Sarah Palin

Another one of Maureen Dowd’s articles which I’ve cherished is the one last fall in which she scripted what a 2012 Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin would sound like. Dowd had some beautiful turns of phrase, such as declaring that “in ideological terms, the gun-toting hockey mom and the shot-swilling warrior Queen of the Sisterhood of the travelling Pantsuits are opposites.” If McCain had become President and Palin his VP, Dowd surmises that the effect on McCain would be such that he’d “confide in his pal Joe [Biden, I presume] that being a P.O.W. was nothing compared with being trapped in the White House with “that woman”.” The last teaser I’ll leave you with is Dowd’s statement that “It’s delicious imagining the Debate of the Century between Big Mama, as Bill’s male aides called Hillary, and “Hottie Granny”, as People magazine will doubtless dub Sarah.” It really is worth the read. The full article is entitled “Clash of the Titans”, was published in the September 7, 2008 issue of the NY Times, and can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07dowd.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=dowd%20clinton%20palin%202012%20presidential%20debate&st=cse