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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Note my post #20 above.
Hmmmmm. Makes me wonder if David Brooks and Chris Mathews are a "thing"...
Masterful!
Some of the comments at the link are great. Especially the one about “Kalifornia”. I sent that around by email. It was great!
I got a kick out of Post #14 above about how David’s love letters to Barack from atop Brookback Mountain sounds a lot like it was out of the Song of Solomon. So true! And so FUnnie!!!
A FINE BROMANCE
Tune: "A Fine Romance" Original
As sung by David Brooks to Barack Obama
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 that 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
Any time I hear a reference to that song I think of Sinatra. But that’s just me...
“A Fine Romance” was written for the movie ‘Swing Time” in 1936 and was sung by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Many artists have recorded it since. Sinatra recorded the song in 1960.
Without looking it up, I believe that was on his first album under his own label, Reprise. The album name was Ring A Ding Ding. Another great cut from that album was In The Still Of The Night.
Boy is he a sell out. I thought he was supposed to be the NYT token conservative columnist. He is nothing but a lap dog for the lefties at the Times. The SF Chronicle has Debra Saunders as their token conservative and she is pretty good, at times.
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