David Brooks nails it: Barack just jumped the shark!
Our friend (and marriage supporter!) David Brook wrote an excellent opinion piece over at the normally blue NY Times titled “Playing Innocent Abroad.”
With all the glowing coverage of Barack Hussein’s trip by the main stream media, you’d think this Democrat nominee was already president. But Brooks doesn’t buy it. He sees the truth and that is that all this rhetoric is false hope. There is no substance to any of the pretty words, and he has no policies.
The odd thing is that Obama doesn’t really think this way. When he gets down to specific cases, he can be hard-headed. Last year, he spoke about his affinity for Reinhold Niebuhr, and their shared awareness that history is tragic and ironic and every political choice is tainted in some way.
But he has grown accustomed to putting on this sort of saccharine show for the rock concert masses, and in Berlin his act jumped the shark. His words drift far from reality, and not only when talking about the Senate Banking Committee. His Berlin Victory Column treacle would have made Niebuhr sick to his stomach.
Obama has benefited from a week of good images. But substantively, optimism without reality isn’t eloquence. It’s just Disney.
Now we don’t know who Niebuhr is, but all that other stuff makes a lot of sense.
Just another reason why John McCain is going to be the next President of the United States of America!
