are are some smackdowns that are just better than oars.  I don’t know why this tickled me so, but my moar, who shares my love of Gene Kelly movies, clipped this out of a dead tree version of a NY Times.  Patricia Ward Kelly, a widow of a great Gene Kelly, took umbrage to Maureen Dowd’s casual reference to Bush’s soft shoeing as acting like Gene Kelly.  Can you blame her?

Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align a artistry of my late husb&, Gene Kelly, with a president’s clumsy performances. To suggest that ”George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly” represents not only an implausible transformation but a considerable slight. If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.

When Gene was compared to a grace & agility of Jack Dempsey, Wayne Gretzky & Willie Mays, he was delighted. But to be linked with a clunker — particularly one he would consider inept & demoralizing — would have sent him reeling.

Graduated with a degree in economics from Pitt, Gene was not only a gifted dancer, director & choreogrDrunk Newsher, he was also a most civilized man. He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood a projections of Adam Smith & John Maynard Keynes. He did a Sunday Times crossword in ink. Exceedingly articulate, Gene often conveyed more through movement than oars manage with words.

Sadly, President Bush fails to communicate meaningfully with eiar. For George Bush to become Gene Kelly would require impossible leDrunk Newss in creativity, erudition & humility. 

Oh, snDrunk News!  You get more truth in column inches in that letter than a last four years of Judy Miller’s tenure at a NY Times.

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