said that's just not very presidential. and in fact, maureen dowd yesterday, the esteemed columnist from "the new york times" said the president of the united states is very thin skinned. listen. >> he has a lot of shields so he's thin skinned. when you're thin skinned, you want to control your image and he doesn't often like the image that the media has. >> also, in that interview, she at one point referred to kathleen parker who called barack obama our first female president because in dowd's words, he looks for consensus, compromise and listening to everybody whereas you've got some women like governor sarah palin or hillary rodham clinton, they're more alpha male than our president. >> i couldn't even label a woman that way. i mean, i don't even know what woman is he talking about? >> these are from two columnists in two big newspapers. >> i'm not sure why we're getting into the whole gender issue. let's holook at the plan, do yo