You, sir, are no Gene Kelly
Mar. 19th, 2008 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoMaureen Dowd compares G-Bu's tap dancing on the White House steps to Gene Kelly. Mrs. Kelly begs to differ.
Dowd's column, "Soft Shoe in Hard Times," asked "why the president is in such a fine mood" - at a time when "the dollar's crumpling, the recession's thundering, the Dow's bungee-jumping and the world's disapproving." Nevertheless, she noted, Bush "has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called 'The Most Happy Fella.'"
Kelly's widow contrasted her late husband's achievements with those of the president. Kelley, she wrote, "graduated with a degree in economics from Pitt," and, unlike the president, was "a most civilized man. He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood the projections of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. He did the Sunday Times crossword in ink."
Dowd's column, "Soft Shoe in Hard Times," asked "why the president is in such a fine mood" - at a time when "the dollar's crumpling, the recession's thundering, the Dow's bungee-jumping and the world's disapproving." Nevertheless, she noted, Bush "has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called 'The Most Happy Fella.'"
Kelly's widow contrasted her late husband's achievements with those of the president. Kelley, she wrote, "graduated with a degree in economics from Pitt," and, unlike the president, was "a most civilized man. He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood the projections of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. He did the Sunday Times crossword in ink."