Letters to the Editor
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But Glenn You Are Talking About the Creators of Reality
Once their heroes attack Iran they assume the polls will be with them, and they probably are right--at least for 6 months.
The best chance against the "institutions that succor" these sycophants? Growth of this here technology. The blurring of the line between computer and TV is the best chance for winning the battle of interpreting reality, and a trend back toward sanity.
One good thing about airing Ahmadinejad yesterday was it exposed him as human and a slippery politician. He was as deft as any American politician at avoiding questions he didn't like, and spinning his sketchy decisions in the past. Now here's a guy Americans can relate to.
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FloggHim with a wet noodle?
Harmony-
respect to SusanMc and GaryOwen and all...and a no war memory.
*When the rice fields lie fallow and it is in the fall here,
I wish I could bang a banjo or play a bamboo flute while lying on the back of a water buffalo.
Happy would the people be if we had good and honest leadership.
Over the Land the beauty spreads like intelligent human minds the same as the wind. Justice spreads like crisp wind and cool breeze.
Transporting us to hear birds and waterfalls, transparent, free and high.
We shake off the dusty clothes and never choke upon the dirty lies.
Dust.
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Question Clinton's motives and sincerity?
Obviously, one can question the motives and sincerity of her doing all of this.
I don't see why it's necessary to question Clinton's motives and sincerity. She is sincerely motivated to become President of the United States (which is more than could be said for the last couple of Democratic candidates.)
You want something more? Some promise of ideological purity? It's the nature of politicians to run around with their finger in the air. If you want them to change their views, change which way the wind is blowing.
And that's exactly what Clinton is responding to. That's good. We want that, remember? No, if elected she won't do everything you ask for. But the great thing about being a Democrat right now is that you have a whole field of candidates who are all very willing to listen.
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Rank classism, with a dollop of sexism for flavor
BlogHim
If Brooks thinks that high school-educated women in the Midwest neither read nor write blogs, he's even more out of touch than I thought. We shall have to arrange a ticket for him to BlogHer next year, although his head might explode.-- SusanMc
I suspect David Babbling Brooks would not do well with members of the demographic he's trying to define in 'high school educated women in the Midwest'. His slightly over-weight, docile, unbright female constructs don't exist. Working class semi-rural women mostly have a few years of community college under their belts (if they are under ~60). They have work skills and they're likely working unless their kids are real small. They are... keeping the books for their family well drilling business, or they are rural mail deliverers, or contract manicurists at a local salon, or selling Mary Kay or lampwork beads on Etsy.com ... or driving a haul truck. At least, those are the ones I knew when I worked in mining in small-town Nevada. I doubt too many of them are warmongers -- and they sure aren't the sort of saps he'd like them to be.
Thanks to Glenn for skewering this human boil. But, remember to stand clear as the pus drains Glenn. That's not sugar syrup he's full of.
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RMP- Listen to mountain water brooks?
tedmyn @ 8:24 grace and peace to you too...
MR Natural? Mr. Colombo could never find in all those pockets his comb, pencil, or lap-top computer? He's search forever and nearly always NEVER lost his mind. I loved his persistent search for peace and sanity...
Your mention of the Rubber Trees. What beautiful protected plantations.
I was given a quart bottle of Rubber Tree Honey by some beekeepers in 1990. I say that that honey was better than Southern Maryland's (below the Mason-Dickson Meat-Loaf line?) Lima Bean Wine.
Brooks would knock over crystal wine canters and small glasses if at a Maryland fellowship.
I know some good below the Meat Loaf Mennonites who need help cleaning manure from a barn.
No dump brook's poop in creek.
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@ RMP
David Brooks is a starlet. David O. Selznick created many of them in his day, as did Sam Goldwyn and Jack Warner. We're after the studios, not the pretty young things blinking in front of the cameras. We'll always have starlets.
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More on Brooks "wanting to help" the Democratic patry...
Looking back about a year we find:
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/opinion/19brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Where Mr. Brooks says things like:
Run, Barack, Run
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: October 19, 2006
Barack Obama should run for president.
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.
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Coming from my own perspective, I should note that I disagree with many of Obama’s notions and could well end up agreeing more with one of his opponents. But anyone who’s observed him closely can see that Obama is a new kind of politician. As Klein once observed, he’s that rarest of creatures: a megahyped phenomenon that lives up to the hype.
It may not be personally convenient for him, but the times will never again so completely require the gifts that he possesses. Whether you’re liberal or conservative, you should hope Barack Obama runs for president.
At the time, pushing Obama looked "concern trollish" to me based on Obama's inexperience and so on. I think that was indeed why Brooks was pushing Obama as Brook's role in the right-wing noise machine as concern troll allows him to pretend to be helpful, while making suggestions deemed helpful by the GOP.
Fast forward about a year and what do we find? Brooks is now pushing Hillary. It could be that he sees the writing on the wall and now wants the most hawkish Democratic candidate to win, but let's roll with the concern troll angle a bit further. Obama has been doing very well with small donation fund raising which implies popular support probably with likely primary voters. Obama looked like pretty easy pickings for the slime-machine a year ago: funny name, anti-war, pre devastating GOP defeat in November. Now, not so much. Brooks' new role is to push Hillary to avoid having the hawkish coo-coos run against a strong anti-war candidate as big anti-war turn-out will crush the GOP up and down the ticket.
Brooks should be used as the tell-tail for what the GOP wants leftists to do so as to help the GOP, i.e., concern troll.