2008-06-20 The Two Obamas

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The Two Obamas
2008/06/20 00:00
  • URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/opinion/20brooks.html
  • Posted: 2008-06-20 (date: 2008/06/20)
  • Topics: Barack Obama David Brooks/writings 2008 US presidential race
  • Summary: «But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes. [..] This guy is the whole Chicago package: an idealistic, lakefront liberal fronting a sharp-elbowed machine operator. He’s the only politician of our lifetime who is underestimated because he’s too intelligent. He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.» Brooks seems to have evolved into an intellectual hit-man for the neocons, whatever he might once have been. -W.
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