David Brooks’ Ivy League ejaculations - Barack Obama, White House '08

On Strong Tough Women
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... birthday. Happy birthday Lucy Redboots! Lucy is small in stature, yes, but she’s really and truly an Amazon woman. I kid you not. Lucy can lift a house with her tiny little arms. Maybe that’s an exaggeration but not much of one. Perhaps it was her training in college. Lucy was always a Wonder Woman. She was head cheerleader at Arkansas Tech University. Thankfully, most of us didn’t go to one of those cult colleges that David Brooks admires so much. Although Lucy is only three years ...

Saturday links
Maggie's Farm — ... What happy people tend not to do. NYT Get a room, David Brooks A single-celled organism the size of a grape. Repubs will never reach people who feel that they are owed stuff At least 25 years of global cooling now predicted. It's cold as heck here today. How bad will the recession be? Hawkins Eric Holder, gun-grabber, also makes the case for "reasonable" restrictions on internet The Waxman Dems: WSJ. A quote: It's obvious who ...

The obligatory “David Brooks really impressed with Obama’s pants” post
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... find a more loathsome expression of intellectual elitism than “I divide people into people who talk like us and who don’t talk like us,” especially given the extent to which people like Brooks and Frum disdain the “one of us” appeal that inspires so many of Palin’s fans. For Brooks, it seems, it all depends on who “us” is. Also, did I misread that last paragraph or is he suggesting that the main reason he wants Obama to succeed is to vindicate governance by the smart set? I know he gets off on Ivy League pedigrees but I didn’t suspect until now that he was treating ...