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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Brooks: "I am pro Obama. I am totally pro Obama on this."
David Brooks got it perfectly right.
When Chuck Todd asked if politicians can have the debate, David Brooks got it perfectly right.
When Chuck Todd asked if it was necessary for a President to leave office before he could speak that candidly, David Brooks response was again on point.
The President's speech was about humility. It was about ALL humans being fallible. As such we should all get of the high horses and work together to bring us all together for a better nation, for a better world.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/08/1363143/-Wow-David-Brooks-passionately-defends-President-Obama-s-National-Prayer-Breakfast-statements
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)kpete
(71,997 posts)onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Andrea Mitchell did not, apparently, also.
Watching her squirm in discomfort because she was SO in the wrong, having not watched the entire speech, and was caught fault brained, was satisfying.
President Obama Speaks at National Prayer Breakfast
February 04, 2010 | 16:56 | Public Domain
The President speaks about the power of prayer to foster civility and bridge divisions in remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.
Full transcript and HD video of speech:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-speaks-national-prayer-breakfast#transcript
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-speaks-national-prayer-breakfast
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)that he's essentially a well-meaning person who has been thoroughly duped into a right-wing worldview that he is now slowly emerging from, as if from the proverbial Cloud of Unknowing.
At other times I revert to the conviction that he's just another corporate shill with a shallow understanding of the world that he mistakes for profundity.
Cirque du So-What
(25,949 posts)I listen on the way home from work, and I get the impression that Brooks was never in the fire-breathing conservative corner.
elleng
(130,974 posts)He often gets things wrong, but occasionally is VERY correct, as here, and also fairly often is plain old correct and/or in agreement with Mark Shields. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/shields-and-brooks/
Warpy
(111,277 posts)I usually have to stop 3/4 of the way down any of his articles when he starts to ditto out of context, but he's not the average right wing parrot. He thinks about what he's saying. He's just started out with the wrong data, most of the time, manufactured data.
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)...which means Obama said the right thing.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)and that the Civil War was God's punishment -- to both North and South -- for the offense in which they shared? An offense so vile it required the destruction of all the wealth earned through it, and that every drop of blood drawn with the lash be paid for by another drawn with the sword?
What would their entreaties be against such judgement?
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Lincoln's Second Inaugural prompted me to find the full passage and copy it here:
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." Damn, but Lincoln had a way of cutting to the chase and getting to the nub of things quickly, didn't he?
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)or comparing religions, he's not my religious leader, and for God's sake, just stop with the "what is and isn't Islam" bullshit.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)See post #4 please.
kpete
(71,997 posts)was humility
not what is and isn't this or that religion
Humility towards Tolerance
works for me
no religion necessary
just Humanity
peace,
kp
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Period. I don't care what his message is, I don't want him opining on religious matters, the same as I don't want Huckafuck and Santorum anywhere near the Presidency. Leave the whole goddamn mess alone, unless you're my priest or preacher or rabbi.
kpete
(71,997 posts)is not
religious
.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)No one who is President, or runs for President, can plausibly do that. They are narcissists by nature.
kpete
(71,997 posts)peace,
kp
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Get the religion out of politicis PERIOD.
George II
(67,782 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)But David Brooks is not considred by conservatives to be one of their own.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)They want a smarmy affirmation of their behavior, with no insight or reflection required of them.
Obama must have thought to himself, "Well if they want a sermon, I'll give them one, but it won't be comfortable." And it was not. Jesus didn't make his hearers feel comfortable, either.
Btw did I understand correctly that the Dalai Lama was in attendance? That is certainly a first, if so, and pleases me.