Brooks, as smart as he may be, likely has no clue what tensors and vectors are. These are the foundation stones of modern technology, indeed of civilization as we know it, and an engineering student at the most third-rate cow college in the land has more grasp of them than anyone who writes for the New York Times.
He's got no clue, PERIOD.
Let me quote a little more from his November 2006 piece "Run, Obama, Run":
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He should run first for the good of his party. It would demoralize the Democrats to go through a long primary season with the most exciting figure in the party looming off in the distance like some unapproachable dream. The next Democratic nominee should either be Barack Obama or should have the stature that would come from defeating Barack Obama.
Second, he should run because of his age. Obama’s inexperience is his most obvious shortcoming. Over the next four years, the world could face a genocidal civil war in Iraq, a wave of nuclear proliferation, more Islamic extremism and a demagogues’ revolt against globalization. Do we really want a forty-something in the White House?
And yet in his new book, “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama makes a strong counterargument. He notes that it’s time to move beyond the political style of the baby boom generation. This is a style, he said in an interview late Tuesday, that is highly moralistic and personal, dividing people between who is good and who is bad.
Obama himself has a mentality formed by globalization, not the S.D.S. With his multiethnic family and his globe-spanning childhood, there is a little piece of everything in Obama. He is perpetually engaged in an internal discussion between different pieces of his hybrid self — Kenya with Harvard, Kansas with the South Side of Chicago — and he takes that conversation outward into the world.
Read the whole thing -- the link is from DU, but you can find it elsewhere.
Brooks is so wrong in EVERYTHING he said about Obama, that either this WAS a deliberate Soros/KGB plot to put a Communist mole in the Oval Office, or Brooks is literally demonically inspired.
Cheers!