Brooks wants to hate the Obama team he just doesn’t

David Brooks, right of center columnist of the NY Times, pens this description of the growing Obama administration. He wants to look away in disgust at the pedigree of the assorted insiders, but the more he looks the more he likes what he sees. 
Best passage:
Obama seems to have dispensed with the romantic and failed notion [...]

Brooks Hopes its Biden

Read the endorsement here…it just so happens, so do I. I was prepping to write a Biden post. But Brooks did a much better job than I could have. Give it a read.

Reaction: David Brooks on the Education of John McCain

David Brooks writes a sad tale this morning. One of a noble man, a brave public servant who has tirelessly spent his career bucking the washington trends to pass sensible legislation and work in a bipartisan way. That same man is now a victim of the media, the GOP political machine, and his desperate need [...]

The NY Times Opines for Obama

David Brooks, NY Times conservative columnist pens this description of Obama as something of an unknowable. 
While Maureen Dowd draws a literary comparison for all the PUMA’s out there. 
UPDATE: Dan Schnur adds these thoughts on why perceptions never die in politics.
For better or worse, assume that the competing stick figures of Angry Old Geezer and Callow [...]

Reaction: David Brooks’ Essay

David Brooks of the NY Times offers his take on multi-nationalism this morning. He comments on the lack of a modern day equivalent to the Marshall Plan.
Brooks observes, correctly, that the consolidation of democratic power world-wide rested with the United States. Marshall, Achseon and President Truman were able to leverage this political and staggering economic [...]