MoDo

Maureen Dowd often turns in unfocused, rambling, trying-to-hard-to-be-hip columns such as the one out in tomorrow's NY Times, yet they invariably contain some pithy, laugh out loud clever lines such as this one:

It's hilarious that the Republicans are trying to paint their ticket as the more optimistic one.

Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush radiate negativity, even as Mr. Edwards and his photogenic blond kids glow for the cameras. Dick Cheney glowers for the camera, a Dr. No with a dark vision that has resulted in a gigantic global mess. (When he was stopped by applause at a campaign stop in Altoona, Pa., on Sunday, he asked, "You guys want to hear this speech or not?")