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To: Minus_The_Bear

In the spring of 2005, New York Times columnist David Brooks arrived at then-Senator Barack Obama’s office for a chat. Brooks, a conservative writer who joined the Times in 2003 from The Weekly Standard, had never met Obama before. But, as they chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke, it didn’t take long for the two men to click. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging,” Brooks recently told me, “but usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don’t know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me.”

That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks’s mind. “I remember distinctly an image of—we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama’s The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was “Run, Barack, Run.”


58 posted on 05/30/2011 9:15:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: DesertRhino

David Brooks and Chris “a tingle up and down my leg” Matthews share the same sexual persuasion. Obama really “turns them on”.


72 posted on 05/30/2011 9:29:59 AM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Impeach the Communist Kenyan Fraud and his band of Czars)
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To: DesertRhino
David Brooks is a self anointed elite.

The more condescending and snarky a self anointed elite is, the more null the total of their knowledge.

166 posted on 05/30/2011 1:49:25 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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