re: #20 Dark_Falcon

The column in question:

Bill Schools Barry on Syria

Calling Barack Obama by a nickname he stopped using 20 years ago is beyond lame. Which makes it par for the course for Maureen Dowd.

She’s using it dismissively. She’d might as well call him “boy”. It’s borderline bigotry, really.

Now pro ball players (Barry Zito, Barry Bonds) get called ‘Barry’ all the time because they’re athletes and it’s usually pronounced, “BEH-REE!” But Dowd’s basically saying the boy in the White House is in over his head…about everything.