{"id":5769,"date":"2010-03-15T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/brooks-nails-it.html"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:50:20","slug":"brooks-nails-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/brooks-nails-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Nails it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/ObamaGrav-2940.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/ObamaGrav-thumb-250x192-2940.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"192\" alt=\"ObamaGrav.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/12\/opinion\/12brooks.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\"><b>David Brooks<\/b><\/a> gets it when it comes to how people are sketching Obama.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><i>If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Obama is a skilled politician who campaigned as a centrist but is governing as a big-government liberal. He plays by ruthless, Chicago politics rules. He is arrogant toward foes, condescending toward allies and runs a partisan political machine.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><i>If you ask a liberal Democrat, you are likely to hear that Obama is an inspiring but overly intellectual leader who has trouble making up his mind and fighting for his positions. He has not defined a clear mission. He has allowed the Republicans to dominate debate. He is too quick to compromise and too cerebral to push things through&#8230;. [now to the end of the piece]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>In a sensible country, people would see Obama as a president trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism. In a sensible country, Obama would be able to clearly define this project without fear of offending the people he needs to get legislation passed. But we don&#8217;t live in that country. We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of their own sect. They come away with perceptions fundamentally at odds with reality, fundamentally misunderstanding the man in the Oval Office.<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks gets it when it comes to how people are sketching Obama. If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Obama is a skilled politician who campaigned as a centrist but is governing as a big-government liberal. He plays by ruthless, Chicago politics rules. He is arrogant toward foes, condescending&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brooks Nails it - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/brooks-nails-it.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brooks Nails it - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Brooks gets it when it comes to how people are sketching Obama. 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