Posted on 10/08/2008 8:00:06 PM PDT by pissant
A pile among piles, as it were.
You don't think that "greedy", and corrupt, Wall Street has caused us a few problems lately?
If Brooks actually believes that a certain candidate should be elected president because he happens to able to quote the words of a not particularly well-known writer, he should be disqualified from ever writing about politics again. He should certainly never be taken seriously by any conservatives ever again.
“In the beginnings of his work as a vocal social justice proponent, he was a strong democratic socialist. Having once railed against Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal as being unattainable, after the war Niebuhr became more pragmatic and began to support the New Deal and the Vital Center of the Democratic Party. Niebuhr’s work was a great voice within the rising tide of welfare capitalism.”
Niebuhr seems to be loved by democrats and fake conservatives.
He seems like the sort of author read by people who think they are smart, rather than by people who actually DO something in their lives.
David Brooks hasn’t accomplished 1/10th of what Sarah Palin has, so he reads Niebuhr and discusses it with another person who has never actually DONE anything - Obama!
David Brooks got beat up too many times by girls, that should explain why he is intimidated by bright conservative women.
Note: this topic was posted 10/8/2008. Thanks pissant.
from 2012:
Thurston Howell Romney
By DAVID BROOKS
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?ref=davidbrooks
And there's nothing faux-conservatives and liberals fear more than being forced to see themselves for what they really are.
Agreed..
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