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Daily Kos —
TGIF! Pundits love Fridays! Paul Krugman: There are some disturbing parallels between 2008 and 1932, and one disturbing one is the gap between when the discredited Bush leaves and the new folks take over. David Brooks: And yet as much as I want to resent these overeducated Achievatrons (not to mention the incursion of a French-style government dominated by highly trained Enarchs), I find myself tremendously impressed by the Obama transition. Jonah Goldberg: Hey, bankruptcy for GM isn't so ...
Praising Eric Holder?
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Friday, November 21, 2008 [image] Friday in Our Alternative-Reality America [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] I think everyone needs to take a week off. No more punditry. Just sleeping, reading, praying, normal living. I really want David Brooks to take the week off when he praises Eric Holder. 11/21 08:37 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us ...
Wait, I Thought That Was Racist?
The Corner on National Review Online —
Friday, November 21, 2008 [image] Wait, I Thought That Was Racist? [ Jonah Goldberg ] David Brooks writes : Obama seems to have dispensed with the romantic and failed notion that you need inexperienced fresh faces to change things. After all, it was L.B.J. who passed the Civil Rights Act. Moreover, because he is so young, Obama is not bringing along an insular coterie of lifelong aides who depend upon him for their well-being. Didn't Hillary get in trouble for saying the exact same thing in re MLK v LBJ? 11/21 09:55 AM
David Brooks’ Ivy League ejaculations
Michelle Malkin —
... at Goldman Sachs, Williams & Connolly or the Brookings Institution. So many of them send their kids to Georgetown Day School, the posh leftish private school in D.C. that they’ll be able to hold White House staff meetings in the carpool line. And yet as much as I want to resent these overeducated Achievatrons (not to mention the incursion of a French-style government dominated by highly trained Enarchs), I find myself tremendously impressed by the Obama transition.– David Brooks, NYT , 11/21/08 Get a room, David. Your public displays of Obam-affection are bordering ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Intelligence Is As Intelligence Does
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
David Brooks seems awfully impressed with what he terms the "valedictocracy" filling the ranks of the Obama administration . But as someone who shares Michelle Obama's almae matres of Princeton and Harvard, let me just say that Brooks' invocation of everyone's academic credentials, without more, is hardly reassuring. Wasn't it the "best and the brightest" who set up the situation leading to the Vietnam debacle? Of course, one always hopes that the most intelligent people are the ones who will be leading this country. Where Brooks and the like go wrong is in necessarily equating intelligence with academic credentials. Trust me -- there are plenty of Princeton ...
The end of the Brooks-o-meter
Ben Smith's Blog —
... had maxed out after David Brooks' October 17 column, where he wrote, "it is easy to sketch out a scenario in which he could be a great president."
I was wrong. Today, in a column titled "O-phoria", Brooks gets so excited that Ben drafted me for a one-night-only return.
Channeling his past as a chronicler of Ivy League overachievers, he kicks off the column by gushing over the fancy degrees dotting the resumes of the Obamas and their advisors.
He writes:
Obama seems to have dispensed with the romantic and failed notion ...
In Obama's Washington, Ivy Leaguers Uber Alles?
TPMCafe —
... I've seen columnists become obsessed; I've seen them rage at or kiss up to the objects of their obsessions. But nothing - not even my own supposed obsession with New York Times columnist David Brooks -- compares with his decade-long, love-hate obsession with the Ivy League, the "love" side on display in his column today celebrating an influx of Clinton Ivy Leaguers into the Obama administration. ...
A Lack of Ideas Has Consequences
The Next Right —
... Winston Churchill once said that the best argument against democracy was to have a five minute conversation with the average voter. So it's no surprise that, despite Obama's promises of "hope" and "change" to the millions of average voters, the only "hope" is for the numerous entrenched insiders already filing applications to join the technocracy of rationalists known in the vernacular as the Obama cabinet. Indeed, Barack Obama, who promised the American people that his campaign was about "them", has apparently decided that the people best ...
Bungle-mania: A D’OHbama Transition Progress Report
Michelle Malkin —
... so far is more impressive than any other in recent memory… …Believe me, I’m trying not to join in the vast, heaving O-phoria now sweeping the coastal haute bourgeoisie. But the personnel decisions have been superb. The events of the past two weeks should be reassuring to anybody who feared that Obama would veer to the left or would suffer self-inflicted wounds because of his inexperience. He’s off to a start that nearly justifies the hype.– Smarty pants/panting smarty David Brooks, NYT , 11/21/08 Ick. Clearing away the overflowing drool bucket. How do you like ...
