Posted on 09/01/2009 6:29:08 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
This is a love story that has inspired a paean. In fact, to call it mere "love" does not do justice to it. It is a special political love so intense that The New Republic has called it a "bromance" in a story titled, "The Courtship: The story behind the Obama-Brooks bromance" by Gabriel Sherman. Watch how the hot sparks instantly fly at their first meeting:
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.”
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PING!
See that big “L” sign flashing in the sky? It is the Lutheran version of the Bat signal. I am requesting the special services of Lutherman. Read the entire article at NewsBusters and you will see the request at the tail end.
Brooks should stop rubbing barry’s pant leg and pay attention to what the marixt is doing.
Either Brooks was never a true conservative or Brooks has been taken in by the snake oil salesman. Either way he should be ashamed
I compare this to my crush on Paul McCartney.
But I was 9 at the time so I had an excuse.
Maybe Brooks and Chrissy Mathews are twins, separated at birth.
BROMANCE !!! Now, that is good...
ROFL .. OMG .. what a fool .. such dementia!
I’m picturing Brooks, pacing by the phone, twirling his glasses ..
“will he call me, please call me ... “
I know alot of these types. They’ve spent their whole lives studying and actually begin to believe that Philosopher-Kings are real. They’ve never managed people or had to keep a business afloat. They have no interest in the world of business. They talk nonstop about Lincoln, but they forget that Lincoln came from nothing and worked like a dog as a business lawyer with his own firm and developed his ideas and competence in the crucible of hard reality.
I think BLOWMANCE would be better!
Two pseudo intellectuals got together for a gay old time, impressing themselves with themselves. One has gone on to destroy our nation. The other is doing his best to destroy the Republican Party.
ROTFLOL!!
Brook’s accolades of Obama read like the Song Of Solomon!
“Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?”
or:
“His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.”
LOL!!
So Obama reads Burke, well I sure wish he would have read Friedman, because it is painfully obvious that he doesn’t know basic Economics. Some of the things he has said are actually quite embarrassing, like the stuff about Government insurance competing with Private insurance... what a moron, sheesh..
Oh dear me. Poor, poor David.
and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.”
IDIOT,
What is with liberals (self-important) opinion people and their obsession with pants, legs, chills up their legs, and the like..?
David Brooks probably has as much influence in the Republican Party as Sen. John Heinz’s widow. Does he even call himself a Republican?
Gay activist. That is why he hates Palin. He is angry there are Christians not celebrating bedroom activity in the Republican party. That is the center of his world and his politics. Pitiful.
A fine bromance, like no other
A fine bromance, my Brooks brother
Barack and Brooks—it’s mutual admiration
Your rock-star looks are causin’ a strange sensation
A fine bromance, though you’re frazzled
A fine bromance, I’m bedazzled
I like to stare at the crease in your well-pressed pants
I’ve widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance
A fine bromance, we’re pie-chartin’
You make bromance that’s bi-partisan
You’re cooler than the clams that are down in the seaweed
You cast a glance my way and I get all wee-weed
A fine bromance, you’re my Marx guy
When we slow-dance, you make sparks fly
You make me have to cancel my “No we cant’s”
You’ve got me in a trance
This is a fine bromance
A fine bromance, with no disses
A fine bromance, Barack, this is
The “right” may be the box that a guy like I’m in
But I’m the kind writes for the New York Times in
A fine bromance, my dear comrade
A fine bromance, like you and Rahm had
I feel a tingle running now up my pants
I’ve widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance
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