David Brooks, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party

Based on NY Times columnist David Brooks' track record, and a recent follow up post by Peter Loffredo (http://www.fullpermissionliving.blogspot.com/ ) at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (http://www.onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/ I can only wonder -- what is Brooks' true agenda ? Pro-Obama or anti-Democratic Party ? He lauds OB's "self-knowledge" and "the scattered facts of [OB's] childhood" now, but when the election comes around, Brooks no doubt can be counted on to use all of those same "scattered facts" he has gained through Obama's self-knowledge/revelation against OB's candidacy. Remember, outside of certain elite, educated areas, the gamesmanship of politics in a hyper-media environment will not necessarily reward those revelations, especially as things are lining up (religiously speaking) among GOP candidates.

I agree that it would be nothing short of a miracle to have a passionate, inner-directed President who understands himself, with resonances of Dr Martin Luther King,Jr and Abraham Lincoln, but as we learned in 2000 and 2004, the GOP must still be expected to play hardball. Much of the voting public nationally is unfortunately not attuned to "self-awareness"..

I don't pretend to have answers either but I do believe that the primary job of the selected Democratic candidate, whoever it is, must be to speak loudly and clearly to those political issues that will curb the corporate and anti-democratic excesses of the past 8 years and focus less on the politics of personality which can only serve to detract from that message....

If the Democracts can't get it together this time, it will not bode well for America's soul or its future...