Noemie Emery explains:
…In a sense, Obama has never been more than his education (Columbia, Harvard), which for some people was more than enough. When Brooks met Obama in 2005, the new senator had no experience and no accomplishments, but he was perfectly briefed in the requisite talking points.
“As they chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke, it didn’t take long for the two men to click,” Gabriel Sherman wrote in the New Republic. On the basis of this, Brooks decided Obama was “dazzling,” would one day become “a very good president” and should run for that office as quickly as possible. He compared him to Burke in his subtle complexity.
“Run, Barack, Run,” he wrote a year later, on the grounds that crisis required his talents. “I divide people into people who talk like us and who don’t talk like us,” he admitted to Sherman. He then paid Obama the ultimate compliment, by saying he could write for the New Republic himself…
The bloom is off the rose – but not for the elite. In spite of all evidence, the elite will continue to assert that Obama is a great President. Why? Because the hardest thing for even the most saintly person to admit is personal error…and for self-absorbed elites, its next to impossible. For the elite to turn on Obama they would have to admit that having a prestige education isn’t sufficient for success…and that would wreck their world view.
They chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke? One wonders, then, at the quality of education in the Ivy League if you can chew over Burke and still be like Brooks – or Obama. One of the finer points of Burke is …
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
And Obama lives by lies – lies he was instructed to hold by the elite which educated him, embraced him and elevated him to the White House. And the elite is going to stick by him, right to the end.
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