How Obama fell to earth

[emilyg]

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How Obama Fell to Earth
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By DAVID BROOKS
Published: April 18, 2008
Back in Iowa, Barack Obama promised to be something new — an unconventional leader who would confront unpleasant truths, embrace novel policies and unify the country. If he had knocked Hillary Clinton out in New Hampshire and entered general-election mode early, this enormously thoughtful man would have become that.

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Go to Columnist Page » But he did not knock her out, and the aura around Obama has changed. Furiously courting Democratic primary voters and apparently exhausted, Obama has emerged as a more conventional politician and a more orthodox liberal.

He sprinkled his debate performance Wednesday night with the sorts of fibs, evasions and hypocrisies that are the stuff of conventional politics. He claimed falsely that his handwriting wasn’t on a questionnaire about gun control. He claimed that he had

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/opinion/18brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

[islandmkl]

1. david brooks getting big play today....

check out the OTHER RW talkers...

[NewHampshireDem]

2. OMFG ... you did not

just link to David Brooks.

[blogslut]

3. Brooks?

:wtf:

[lisa58]

4. why are all the Hillary supporters reading David Brooks...

...he doesn't like Hillary either.

[NanceGreggs]

5. David Brooks?

Good call, emilyg!

More accurate title: "How Obama Fell Into the Nomination Without Breaking a Sweat"

[dchill]

6. I am SO sad for you.

David Brooks. Isn't it embarrassing?

[Skinner]

7. Wow.

He even attacks Senator Obama for bowling a 37. I think that might be a first.

[ClassWarrior]

8. Isn't posting articles by known RW pundits against DU rules?

NGU.

[backscatter712]

9. You're so desperate for good press that you'll pawn off right wing hatchet pieces.

:eyes:

[meow mix]

10. david brooks? your reported.

reported for freeping

[Rick Myers]

11. David 'friggin' Brooks???

Who cares???

:kick:

[last1standing]

12. Is there no depth too low for you?

Spewing right wing propaganda is just sick. Is that what Clinton has been reduced to?

I guess it's all right wing lies and blaming the base from this point on. :mad: