Posted by
rycK on Friday, June 06, 2008 8:10:18 AM
The Babbling Brooks of the NYT Babbles about Lincoln, Mercury Pills and The Grip of Emotions. [?!]
We know that the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]-- always praises and anoints some person or clustered cabal that is farthest to the left of the left but today the essay transcends both reason and any identifiable attribute of politics.
Brooks begins with some ancient history:
“Lincoln was taking three mercury pills a day, the remedy in those days for people who either suffered from syphilis or feared contracting it. “Lincoln could not eat or sleep,” Daniel Mark Epstein writes in his new book, “The Lincolns.” “He appeared at the statehouse irregularly, hollow-eyed, unshaven, emaciated — an object of pity to his friends and of derision to others.”[2] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
Okay, so what is the point? Is Obama on the Gonjo?
“Over the course of his young adulthood, Lincoln built structures around his inner nature. He joined a traditional bourgeois marriage.”
Has Brooks been reading Freud?[3] Where is the sex angle here?
“In the last few years, we may be shifting toward another vision of maturity, one that is impatient with boomer narcissism. Young people today put service at the center of young adulthood. A child is served, but maturity means serving others.”
This reads like a public relations piece. Is this an oblique attack against Hillary?
“Obviously, it’s not fair to compare anybody to Lincoln, but he does illustrate the repertoire of skills we look for in a leader. The central illusion of modern politics is that if only people as virtuous as “us” had power, then things would be better. Candidates get elected by telling people what they want to hear, leading them by using the sugar of their own fantasies.”
Well, yes. The low class wants to hear that the government will tax the pants off the ‘rich’ and give the loot to the ‘poor.’ The freebies abound! Lincoln also had his troops burn crops and farms, steal animals and left many Southerners to starve. Is this a shot at the rednecks that Obama insulted in San Francisco?
In the hood, gonjo is sugar is fun.
“Somehow a leader conversant with his own failings wouldn’t be as affected by the moral self-approval that afflicts most political movements. He’d be detached from his most fervid followers and merciful and understanding toward foes. He’d have a sense of his own smallness in the sweep of events. He or she would contravene Lord Acton’s dictum and grow sadder and wiser with more power.
All this suggests a maxim for us voters: Don’t only look to see which candidate has the most talent. Look for the one most emotionally gripped by his own failings.”
I don’t have a clue what this means and I wonder if our Babbling Brooks does.
We are looking at some guy who floated up from the criminal confusion of Chicago politics and embraced Saul Alinsky Marxism and associated half of his life with activists, terrorists and psycho racist hate mongers in his church along with seasoned criminals like Rezko[4] who fixed him up with some sugar-coated land deals. Tony Rezko was in tight with the Islamo-Fascists like Elijah Muhammad and a pack of hack Daley Machine black operatives like: Bishop Arthur Brazier, Leon Finney Jr. and Allison Davis.
Is he emotionally gripped? Or does he fear the past.
Maybe Brooks is preparing us for some negative linkages with organized crime, Marxism in the gutters or that supposed video where Michele and the wife of Louis Farrakhan trash whitey. Is Obama an impatient post-boomer with a hidden affliction of narcissism?
Apparently, the New York Times is asking us to give Obama some kind of break here and leads us down the rose petal strew path in classic misdirection, a standard turn-of-the-crank propagandistic trick.
Who knows? After meeting with Hillary last night, somebody needs to take some mercury pills.
rycK
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[1] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.