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Why David Brooks Hearts Obama

By on 8.31.09 @ 10:49AM

It's all in this New Republic article. The article itself is interesting and though-provoking; Brooks's insights are not. It takes a strange and very selective reading of the evidence to conclude, as Brooks does, that President Obama "sees himself as a Burkean."

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