Friday, March 11, 2011

Steyn totally rathith

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5 comments:

Tecumseh said...

From one of the stories Steyn links to:

In the spring of 2005, New York Times columnist David Brooks arrived at then-Senator Barack Obama’s office for a chat. Brooks, a conservative writer who joined the Times in 2003 from The Weekly Standard, had never met Obama before. But, as they chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke, it didn’t take long for the two men to click. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging,” Brooks recently told me, “but usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don’t know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me.”

What's the label, Mr Rot?

3/11/2011 6:14 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Steyn's is a fun thread, even if the background of Obama as The Man Who Would be King has a bitter taste. Some of the comments are also fun:

"Between the time when the hipsters drank Apollonaris, and the rise of the sons of Axelrodias, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Barackanan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Anacostia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high temporizing!"

3/11/2011 8:38 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

When I was there the University of Chicago was very very far from being a piece of shit [Brooks was roughly the same time, I think], but in the "social sciences" already progressing nicely to being a piece of shit.
I don't know what Brooks did at Chicago, but judging by the corpus of his "work" , all brain dead, he is certainly a piece of shit. Really, he's just a UC version of Chris Buckley.
As for Obama's understanding of Burke, I have as much evidence of its quality as I do of his birthplace, his grades at Occidental, his grades [or even who his professors were] at Columbia, his grades at Harvard, and what he did at the UC beyond presenting one course, one year. It is a known unknown, it is.

3/12/2011 9:37 AM
Mr roT said...

If his grades were good at any of those places, I would doubt even more Obama's understanding of Burke.

Bottom line, if Obama somehow does understand Burke, then he understands the stuff as an opponent.

3/12/2011 10:02 AM
Tecumseh said...

Burke does Alinsky?

3/12/2011 11:43 AM

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