Op - Ed Entry Two

Sarah Reichenbach

Op - Ed Entry Two

June 13,2009

AP Language

Can The One Have Fun?

By: Maureen Dowd

Published: June 9,2009

Date night with the First Family seems to have stirred up some controversy in the political realm. Apparently they’re not allowed to spend sometime outside of the house together, or heaven forbid like each other. With all the sex, war, and drug scandals that have taken place in Washington through the years; a few harmless nights out on the town really should not be the ordeal that is it.  “I think, you know, playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.” A criticism from our former president on our new one seems to be, well contradictory. “... What sends the wrong signal is going to war with a phony justification, inadequate troop levels, insufficient armor, an inept Defense secretary and an inability to admit for years, deadly ones, that you needed counterinsurgency experts,” from Maureen Dowds’ “Can The One Have Fun?” this statement very well explains Maureen’s feelings towards any negative comments people have towards the Obama family spending time outside of the White House. If Obama is going to be a good president, he needs to have a clear mind to think with. If you ask any office worker staring to long and too hard at something for copious amounts of time is dangerous indeed, mistakes get made, and the letters start to blur. If Obama is going to correct the issues our former president left behind he’s going to need a clear brain to think with. 

A rave review for Maureen Dowd! Ms. Dowd does a fantastic job of using quotes and facts to support her opinions on the topic of Obama and his family spending time outside of the homestead. She writes in a style that doesn’t start to drag on, she keeps it light and fast with just enough passion to let the reader see how she feels. She has a modern tone to her style that makes reading about what is going on in the world seem interesting. If I had known the article was going to be about Obama and his family I probably wouldn’t have read the piece, only because politics is such a fuzzy issue and all people have their own thoughts on the topics, but after the first sentence I was intrigued and had no chose but to continue on. Full of sarcasm and quippy remarks Maureen Dowd does a brilliant job of reeling in the reader and keeping them interested until she’s spoken her peace.