Maureen Dowd says Clinton “a warm bath”, Obama a “cold shower”

Says Irish civic reception in Mayo a very proud moment for her

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New York Times writer Maureen Dowd

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“He was supposed to be the Democratic Reagan, but instead of learning to surf the magic, he has put it to one side.

“As a consequence, Obama is now engaged in trying to win back the support of so many groups, from gays, Muslims, Hispanics to Catholics and women who had been so besotted by him and have become disenchanted.”

Looking ahead to the US Presidential election, Dowd predicted: “It will be close even though the campaigns does not have the excitement of 2008.”

The Irish Times reports that Dowd told her captivated audience that the two happiest moments enjoyed by presidents which she had witnessed were Bill Clinton in Belfast with Van Morrison, and Obama in Moneygall, Co Offaly last year.

“Both Clinton and Obama enjoyed the unadulterated love they got from the Irish because of the absence of fathers in their lives,” she said.

She also spoke of the ‘amazing attack’ on the Vatican by Enda Kenny and her abhorrence of the Catholic Church’s reaction to child sexual abuse. She had been ‘very impressed’ by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin who had ‘started crying’ when she was interviewing him, according to the Times report.

Dowd paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II of Britain for ‘overcoming’ the death of her relative Lord Mountbatten to meet Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

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