[bereanway]

Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, ‘Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?’ And he says, ‘Yeah.’ So i say, ‘What did Niebuhr mean to you?’ For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.”

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Actually Niebuhr wasn't very subtle when it comes to the rejection of absolute Biblical Truth. But that's the sort of thing that excites people like Brooks and Obama who are so much more clever and nuanced than Palin and the rest of us rubes. Sarah Palin represents goodness, someone who has a real heart for God, loves Him and loves His Word and there's nothing that infuriates these elitists any more than that. When held up against the light of the Bible their vacuous arguments are quickly exposed and their futility becomes apparent. These people will do everything they can to destroy her.

[grey_whiskers]

...and the founding fathers, who also foresaw the possiblities for corruption, and planned for citizen government (cf. Buckley's government by the first 200 names rather than the Harvard faculty).

Brooks is merely a hagfish who worries that his parasitic sinecure as a member of the chattering class will be abolished and he will have to turn tricks in Thailand, should we ever return to the vision of the founders.

Cheers!