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101. #101
     On November 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm, RealImmigrantChick said:

     The dean of my laws school used to clerk for a Justice on the US supreme Court, I forget which one, but I believe it was one of the conservatives. He told us once in class that many if not most Supreme Court Justices will not use Harvard Law Grads as clerks because they saw that Harvard may be hard t get in, but did not produce very good lawyers, the education was less than excellent. So, that says a lot to me that many of these folks went to Harvard and other “ivy league” schools.

102. #102
     On November 21st, 2008 at 5:57 pm, WarEagle82 said:

     Maybe Brooks was being sarcastic. Nobody could possibly compare these clowns to Cincinnatus and be serious.

     As far as i can tell there has only been 8 years in his entire life when Bill Clinton has held a government job.

     Most of Clinton’s advisors have been on the revolving door between government or the MSM or lobbying for decades. These people are NOT Cincinnatus!

     He had to be sarcastic!

     
     

     They typically served in the Clinton administration and then, like Cincinnatus, retreated to the comforts of private life — that is, if Cincinnatus had worked at Goldman Sachs, Williams & Connolly or the Brookings Institution.

103. #103
     On November 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm, zorro said:

     David Brooks sounds like some sort of sick groupie.

104. #104
     On November 21st, 2008 at 8:01 pm, flaming_o said:

     I find myself tremendously impressed by the Obama transition.

     I find myself tremendously impressed by David Brooks’ ability as a one-handed typist.

105. #105
     On November 21st, 2008 at 8:24 pm, flmom said:

     Lifeofthemind

     I knew exactly what he meant, the irony/sarcasm was obviously lost on you.

106. #106
     On November 21st, 2008 at 8:29 pm, beenthere said:

     Mark Steyn commented recently, in response to Brooks’s nasty comment that Palin is a “deadly cancer on the Republican Party,” that he could not say what Brooks believed. As near as I can determine none of the other manners mavens at the NRO criticized Brooks even to that extent. So what is Our Miss Brooks? Is he a republican, a conservative, or what? As near as I can determine he is a Maoist. He is obsessed with Obama and his cult of personality. He believes fervently in China as an ideal that will become the “America of Collectivism.” Finally, his loathing of the conservative base is without limit. Combined in one person who almost boasts of his ignorance of economics, and the result is not a good sign.

     But what is even worse is the degree to which the pseudo-cons at the NRO circle the wagons if any of the lowly (that’s you and me) dare protest regarding him. Wasn’t it the late Buckley the Younger who broke with Nixon because of his toadying to China? What would he have said then about someone like Brooks? This is all quite disturbing and good for Michelle for highlighting the jerk. It’s just one more indication that the conservative base is on its own.

107. #107
     On November 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 am, robert537 said:

     I find myself tremendously impressed by David Brooks’ ability as a one-handed typist.

     flaming_o - great comment (and I think you’re on to something).

108. #108
     On November 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am, rocketman said:

     General George Patton said it pretty well. “Give me a general from West Point and I will win the battle. Give me a general from Texas A & M and I will win the war!”

     President Harry Truman said, “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight that counts–It’s the size of the fight in the dog that counts!”

     Ditto for Ivy League schools and the schools most of the rest of us of attend. We get fine people from both types of school, and also get some real dummies from both. Educating a fool doesn’t make him any smarter–you just get an educated fool instead.

     The orgasmic praising of the no achievements O’Bummer by the LWM (not MSM) really freaks me out. Go SarahCuda!

     John Bibb

109. #109
     On November 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm, vickisoup said:

     As far as i can tell there has only been 8 years in his entire life when Bill Clinton has hasn’t held a government job.

     Fixed it for ya.
     
     Seriously, this man and his wife have been on the public dole (and I do mean “dole”) since graduating from college. Chappaqua was the first private residence they’d owned, I think, and they didn’t even pay for it themselves. They bought it with donations from their adoring fans.
     Yuck.

     I find myself tremendously impressed by David Brooks’ ability as a one-handed typist.

     Very, very funny comment.
     

110. #110
     On November 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm, PrestoPundit - Greg Ransom said:

     Note well:

     The economic disaster which was the FDR government was full of Harvard grads.

     And of course, the one man economic disaster Herbert Hoover was a Stanford egghead.

111. #111
     On November 22nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm, PrestoPundit - Greg Ransom said:

     I really wish bloggers would stop writing about the idiots being published in the NY Times. I don’t read them, and I’d never be bothered by their certified idiocy if people would simply ignore them.

     Ignore them. They will go away.

112. #112
     On November 24th, 2008 at 10:13 pm, L.N. Smithee said:

     I see that on the football team at Florida State University, there is an aspiring neurosurgeon who has been granted a Rhodes scholarship (like Bill Clinton and Bobby Jindal, among others) and will be attending Oxford.

     I’m sure David Brooks is wondering why 1) He’s playing defense instead of quarterback, and 2) He isn’t coaching the team rather than noted sub-genius Bobby Bowden. I mean, he’s so smart!

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