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David Brooks says Palin not qualified
Posted by satijournal • 9/16/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: election, politics
David Brooks said, "Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."
www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&oref=slog...
Of course, David Brooks has described himself as the Fidel Castro of the right-wing. 
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I read that piece.
I thought McCain's choice would eventually cause problems, not necessarily with the "conservative base" that so many have talked about, but with the entrenched powers in the Republican party. How are 'true-believers' to decide?
Rove fouled his own nest yesterday. And now a smart commentator like Brooks finds he can no longer be an apologist for what he considers to be an ill-informed choice...
As always, it will be interesting to see how this plays out. (I'm finding that I say that a lot on your threads...)-
MM "rove fouled his own nest"
I only saw the part where he said McCain wasn't being 100% truthful, Rove said with a smile.
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Something about "too far", though he tried to lump Obama into the same camp. Thing is, though, any criticism at all is unusual at this time when that party's members are usually famous for marching in lock step. -
Rove's a media analyst now, complete with a booking agent. He can't go too far into crazy campaign BS land without losing some credibility, so he has to occasionally admit the obvious.
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David Brooks and Mark Shields keep me going back to the News Hour.
What an interesting observation about the similarities between Bush and Palin. Kinda scary too. Thanks for the tip.
Edited to add: By the way, if that link stops working, you can get there via this permalink: www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html?ex=1379304000&en=6122ac6b7...
The NYT offers these via the share button to the right of each article. It helps get a reader directly there without a login and independently of the original path taken to the article.-
And yet, I can't get Brook Shields out of my head now...
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That wouldn't bother me so much.
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Shields and Brooks are a friday staple.
Maybe that could be a new PBS slogan?
Shields and Brooks - The New Fish
"They keep me going back to the news hour!" says BlogCatalog's Markstoneman -
Brooks is a smart guy, but he got sucked into being a Bush apologist for a while and got caught in quite a few lies. I guess he's had to compromise his integrity to keep his job as a right wing pundit.
I liked watching Shields' and Brooks' commentary during the conventions.
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Today Carly Fiorina doesn't think Palin's qualified either ... well, apparently no politician is qualified to run a business. Of course, Fiorina wasn't really qualified to run Hewlitt Packard either. I guess the government is or isn't like a business, hmmm. It is the largest employer isn't it? Not to mention all that other international stuff.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26741004#26741004
Personally, I don't think it's just about the amount of time Palin or Obama have been in politics, I think it also has to do with their knowledge, and based on what I've heard Palin say it's like she's never given world or national political issues a second thought. That's the difference between her and Obama, IMO anyway.-
I agree, it's not just about time spent in. It's what you've done while there, and Obama actually has all but Biden beat on that note.
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Thing about H-P is its budget is a miniscule fraction of our federal budget.
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I have a feeling we won't be seeing Carly on the news much anymore. She was the one yesterday who said the SNL skit was sexist.
Did you see McCain on Morning Joe this morning? He strikes me as a guy with a short fuse. And rather rude.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/mccain-gets-testy-on-morn_n_126773.html -
He is a guy with a short fuse. Long record of that, though apparently he will apologize to colleagues after going all red in the face on them.
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Yeah, he got caught on camera dropping the C bomb on his wife.
Yeah, he's a charmer
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NO! Seriously? I'd consider that grounds for divorce. I hate that word. So, that's out there and he's still so popular, I don't get that. You'd think that would make for certain political death.
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I'm thinking that it doesn't matter anymore. You know, what kind of person or politician he actually is.
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Ideas? Terrified of ideas? Do you think they even have a clue what his ideas are? It's more like they're terrified of their own image of Obama and his ideas.
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Well, yeah. They've been sold on the whole notion of what "socialism and communism" is for so long that they are not just terrified of those ideas, in general, but are also terrified of any ideas that may sound like those commie ideas, or that may have a point in common with them, or even those that rhyme with those ideas.
Hell, I'm surprised people aren't running way from red ballpoint pens at this moment in time.
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Based on the polls I'm thinking you're right. It seems like people are willing to vote in mccain/palin just because they're not obama. Very odd to me.
When I think about the possibility of Palin becoming your next president...whoa! That's freaking scary. She's afraid of Chris Matthews or Larry King ... then I don't think she's ready for the really scary men she'll have to deal with as President. -
I don't know, Drowsey--I'm willing to vote Obama just because it keeps Palin from becoming President accidentally.
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More conservatives not happy with McCain-Palin...
Conservatives Turn On McCain-Palin
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conservatives-turn-on-mcc_n_126749.html -
Drowsy said,
"She's afraid of Chris Matthews or Larry King..."
I don't know about you, but I'm really missing Tim Russert right about now. I think that would be quite an interview... ... ...-
Yes, I miss him too. Altho she'd probably be afraid of him as well.
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PS DrowseyMonkey... ...sorry I misspelled your name. It's getting late :-)
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Finally read the whole thing. Compelling opinion piece. Also helps me to understand why I never saw Bush as a conservative, certainly don't see Palin as one, and often catch myself sounding like a conservative, albeit not on hot-button issues defined by the Republican party. Who knew? Maybe Democrats are actually the conservatives. We value this country, learning, the wisdom of past experience, and so on, and don't want to throw it all away by giving power to a nincompoop who respects none of that.
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