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Obama Rejects Obamaism
NYTIMES ^ | 09/19/11 | David Brooks

Posted on 09/19/2011 8:45:53 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper

I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.

When the president said the unemployed couldn’t wait 14 more months for help and we had to do something right away, I believed him. When administration officials called around saying that the possibility of a double-dip recession was horrifyingly real and that it would be irresponsible not to come up with a package that could pass right away, I believed them.

I liked Obama’s payroll tax cut ideas and urged Republicans to play along. But of course I’m a sap. When the president unveiled the second half of his stimulus it became clear that this package has nothing to do with helping people right away or averting a double dip. This is a campaign marker, not a jobs bill.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brooks; obama; palin
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To: winoneforthegipper

21 posted on 09/19/2011 10:37:13 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Of all the many things I hate about the NY Times, I think the thing I hate most is them trying to pass off David Brooks as a conservative.


22 posted on 09/19/2011 11:00:22 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: Cicero

Anyone who thinks Brooks is conservative is a sap.


23 posted on 09/19/2011 11:15:27 PM PDT by Defiant (Calling all citizens from all over the world, this is Captain America calling.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Gonna be interesting to see what Rush does with this piece.


24 posted on 09/19/2011 11:23:18 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: winoneforthegipper
Brooks is not a sap, he like many other so call journalists is a failure. A failure to such a existent that the public needs to “fire” him. Fire as in ignoring his articles, his very presence. He has shown he is a man of little thought and ability who has is being presented to the public as someone who is. Maybe that is why he admired Obama from the start as they have that in common.
25 posted on 09/19/2011 11:38:15 PM PDT by MCF
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To: winoneforthegipper

It’s called Vetting for a reason Saphead. And you didn’t.


26 posted on 09/19/2011 11:44:13 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: winoneforthegipper

Brooks was a sap when he fell in love with the crease in Obummer’s pant leg, and he’s just a bigger sap now. What a dimwit.


27 posted on 09/20/2011 12:05:07 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: winoneforthegipper

Hey Brooks, once a sap, always a sap!


28 posted on 09/20/2011 12:35:53 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: winoneforthegipper
I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.

Yeah, because you threw Hillary over and she's waiting to cut you into chunks if you try to come back, now that Obama is toast. You ARE a sap, Davy - and you're not alone.

It's frickin' delicious.

29 posted on 09/20/2011 1:43:16 AM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

I find very entertaining that David Brooks by any measure is termed a “conservative.” I don`t read his columns often (and for good reason), but nothing I`ve read of his exudes the tint of a right-of-center political philosophy. But of course, he writes for the Slimes. Anyone to the right of Pol Pot is “conservative” to them.


30 posted on 09/20/2011 1:54:12 AM PDT by ScottinVA (With "successes" like the Libya adventure, who needs failure?)
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To: winoneforthegipper

What does it say about this piece that it was published yesterday and there are ZERO comments? Either none of the NYT readers read Brooks OR the LIBs have no rebuttal.


31 posted on 09/20/2011 3:06:55 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Ping


32 posted on 09/20/2011 3:30:12 AM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Brooks is right about one thing. He is a sap. He has been for as long as I can remember.


33 posted on 09/20/2011 3:44:25 AM PDT by stevem
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To: winoneforthegipper

If you want to see what the true lunatics are thinking, check out the comments on the NY Times website to Brooks’ article. I shudder thinking of our great nation.


34 posted on 09/20/2011 4:57:56 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: winoneforthegipper

But... but... but... He had such crisply creased trousers!!!


35 posted on 09/20/2011 6:52:04 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave)
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To: winoneforthegipper

David Brooks stuck his itty bitty finger in the air and sensed the direction the Obama wind was blowing.


36 posted on 09/20/2011 8:17:12 AM PDT by BAW (Self reported to #attackwatch on Twitter.)
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