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David Brooks: 'Sometimes Obama Governs Like a Visitor From a Morally Superior Civilization'
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Posted on 12/30/2012 10:14:56 AM PST by chessplayer

New York Times columnist David Brooks made an astonishing observation about President Obama on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.

"Sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization" (video follows with transcript and commentary):


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To: chessplayer

I really could’ve used a barf alert on that one. Seriously. Why doest he just get down on his knees in front of obama and “do some prayin’” for him.


21 posted on 12/30/2012 10:42:42 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: arkfreepdom
Surely he meant that as an insult

I'd say more as a criticism. It's not praise, but not a very strong condemnation -- or maybe it's both.

Brooks is ambivalent about Obama, and not really sure what side he's on or should be on. One part of David Brooks sees that Obama doesn't really connect with people and isn't really effective in governing, and another part in a way admires Obama's aloofness.

Brooks is a UChicago grad who fancies himself an intellectual and he sees Obama as his alter ego and projects qualities he wants to see in himself on Obama. David Brooks is never going to condemn Obama as harshly as others do, because he has too much emotionally invested in his identification with the president.

It's also another version of the Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy thing. Realist Brooks sees that those politicians weren't effective or particularly capable, but idealist Brooks loves the "too good for this world" meme and the satisfaction it gives him.

22 posted on 12/30/2012 10:48:32 AM PST by x
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To: chessplayer
Obama is the ideological/biological issue of 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats.

I remember.

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever!. They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.

23 posted on 12/30/2012 10:48:53 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: ThunderSleeps
Here's more of the quote:

But if I could fault President Obama, I would say that sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. He comes in here, and he will not, he'll talk with Boehner. He won't talk with the other Republicans. He hasn't built their trust. Boehner actually made a pretty serious concession... But the trust wasn't there to get that done. And if the president wants to get stuff done over the next four years...It's got to get to the place where Republicans say, “Okay, we'll take a risk. This guy won't screw us.” They do not feel that right now."

So I don't think it was a compliment. He meant that Obama is arrogant and hostile and untrustworthy, and while David Brooks may favor some of Hussein's aims, even he is acknowledging that Obama is acting like a...wait, what's that word? Dictator?

24 posted on 12/30/2012 10:50:32 AM PST by livius
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To: chessplayer
Sometimes he governs like visitor from a morally superior civilization a would-be Stalinist whose only adversary is a decaying Constitution which he would love to eradicate.
25 posted on 12/30/2012 10:52:26 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: chessplayer

Frighteningly accurate. I believe we are all paying for Obama’s grandparents’ overcompensation of his being abandoned by both parents and in having him tutored by Frank Marshall Davis. In his father’s absence, he was glorified in a child’s fantasy. And Obama has continued as an adult to live with that delusion.


26 posted on 12/30/2012 10:53:56 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: livius

27 posted on 12/30/2012 10:54:22 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: chessplayer

Obama always governs like he’s a visitor from Chicago. If David Brooks thinks Chicago is a morally superior civilization, he belongs in a mental institution, or writing editorials for the New York Times. But I repeat myself.


28 posted on 12/30/2012 11:04:42 AM PST by Bluestocking
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To: chessplayer

“Sometimes he governs like a visitor from......KENYA”


29 posted on 12/30/2012 11:13:02 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: chessplayer
Was Brooks attempting to praise or criticize Osama?
30 posted on 12/30/2012 11:25:18 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: rollo tomasi
"Sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization"

"Sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization"

There, fixed it.


31 posted on 12/30/2012 11:28:52 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: chessplayer

David Brooks’ lord and savior, Barack Obama.


32 posted on 12/30/2012 11:29:22 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: chessplayer
I would say that sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

A civilization that wants to use social engineering to convert everyone into either a parasite or prey is morally evil.

33 posted on 12/30/2012 11:31:41 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Candor7
Yes and that civilization is the Fascist Utopia that Obama means to create.

Nope,a *Maoist* Utopia.Re-read your history and you'll see there's a difference.I'm old enough to *remember* Mao.

34 posted on 12/30/2012 11:31:41 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: Gaffer

There is nothing morally superior then being a coward and hiding behind the skirts of a knee pad wearing media.


35 posted on 12/30/2012 11:34:21 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't bring something to its knees that refuses to stand on its own)
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To: BwanaNdege
"Sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization"

There, fixed it."

Not quite. Try again.

"Sometimes he always governs acts like a visitor from a morally superior civilization".

There, fixed it.

36 posted on 12/30/2012 11:38:35 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: chessplayer

Obama comes from a “morally superior civilization” of One…

“Governing” is a foreign concept to him —a quaint idea, perhaps fine for those who are more or less equal, not for someone like Himself. HE knows what’s best for us, and will dictate accordingly.


37 posted on 12/30/2012 11:44:03 AM PST by mikrofon (Il Douche')
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To: mikrofon

Obama comes from a “morally superior civilization”
That worships golf clubs and vacations!
This Pos Still has no clue to the Presidency and will never have same!


38 posted on 12/30/2012 12:23:30 PM PST by Conserev1
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To: chessplayer

david brooks another pathetic little wanker. most of the time BO governs like he is from analternate perpendicular universe


39 posted on 12/30/2012 12:33:47 PM PST by bravo whiskey (“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”)
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To: Candor7; chessplayer
“Sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization”>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exactly like a pathological narcissist would. Many on our side still don't really get it. 0bamugabe is mentally ill. Extremely mentally ill. That's not a joke and that's not my bias against him talking. The man is one of the most extreme examples of pathological narcissism in the history of mankind.

40 posted on 12/30/2012 12:55:42 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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