Posted on 10/09/2008 7:51:46 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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Brooks’ writing is a fatal cancer on conservative thought, so I guess that makes things even....
Did electricity shoot up his leg?
Brooks is from the monarchist wing of the movement that desires, above all else, a philosopher-king.
Heard Victor Davis Hanson on Hugh Hewitt.....talk about WISDOM!! He;s SMART AND WISE! SEXY combo!
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I am a Republican. We are still experiencing the ill-effects of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration and the bad judgment of people like my parents who elected him. Harry Truman was one of the greatest Presidents in U.S. history. I really like Bess Truman.
(Speaking of Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, when newly elected Eisenhower and his wife--very rudely and breaking with precedent--waited in their car for the Trumans instead of calling for them--and Harry refused to join the Eisenhowers in their car unless they did.)I taught my children to think for themselves. They are ALL Republicans--I am VERY proud to say.(Bess had her way. And she got out of D.C. fast.)
(She wasn't impressed with the Eisenhowers or anything in Washington.)
(I'm not either.)
Good candidate for the best column of the year!
Brooks is a young David Gergen- a phony conservative kept at hand by liberals in order to maintain the falsehood that they seek to hear both sides of an issue.
Yes. Very scary stuff.
Meanwhile millions of Americans--like Brooks and Mathews--are prepared to vote for the man who sends a tingle up their legs. Now that's REALLY SCARY!
People like Brooks and Will and Noonan actually think that they are folowing the traditions of the beloved Bill Buckley whose demeanor seemed to wreak of anti populism. However they forget his famous dictum, “I would rather be governed by the first 200 people in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard.” Clearly these three and others would turn the job over to harvard.
For liberals, it’s all about style. They don’t even have any concept of substance.
sophist1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
philosopherO.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage.""Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]
Modern form with -r appears c.1325, from an Anglo-Fr. or O.Fr. variant of philosophe, with an agent-noun ending. . . .
I am not a theologian, by any stretch, but I do know that for much of his career Niehbuhr was both a socialist and a pacifist, although he later modified those positions somewhat.
That Obama should be able to talk at length about a theologian who was a socialist and pacifist does not surprise me in the least. Brooks, instead of getting all tingly, should perhaps ask himself what it might mean to this nation if we elect a man who shares the socialist and pacifist beliefs of a Reinhold Neihbuhr.
But Brooks, like the effete Eastern establishment tooshie that he is, is so very impressed by the fact that Obama can talk about ideas, that he can not spare a thought as to what holding those ideas might actually mean for the future of this country.
Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/
NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Pajamasmedia: http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/
I've been reading the Greek Classics for the last six months, so I know what he's talking about! I feel so smart!
You have to use power while it corrupts you? To what end? More corruption? An ignoble state if ever there was one. These people are sophisticated dunces. Worse, they have no common sense.
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