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Originally posted by bethany1982
The Democrats should stick with the heavy hitters if they want to bash the president.
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The thing about Molly Ivins is that she's generally taken as a lightweight because her writing is not so academic as many other Bush-haters. If you've read her books you'd find that they're written in a much more breezy journalistic style than most political books -- sort of like the "pop culture of politics." She usually has some really decent (and in the case of Bush, frightening) statistics mixed up in the fluff, but they're not taken seriously because she surrounds them by bashing instead of overly formal language and analysis.
And Diva -- Ivins isn't a huge fan of Clinton's either. She started out liking him but bailed after he signed the 1996 welfare reform bill. And she's referred to him as the "Rodney Dangerfield of presidents" -- although perhaps in some worlds that could be a compliment.
