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July 31, 2004
BABY TALK FROM THE BOBO BOY WONDER
Commenting on John Kerry's acceptance speech the other night on PBS, David Brooks described the Democrats as the nation's Mommy Party trying to co-opt the Republicans in their traditional role of Daddy Party. I nearly fell off my chair laughing at what he passes off as punditry.
Since nobody else seems to have noticed that indelible moment -- it's not even recorded here -- I felt the need to mention it as the Bobo Boy Wonder's deepest plunge yet into condescending juvenilia.
I don't disagree with his conventional wisdom that Kerry has to come off as a trustworthy commander in chief to get elected, though it makes you wonder why our sitting nincompoop in chief doesn't have to. But I object to Brooks's patronizing implication that the nation is a baby in diapers.
And now back to my summer hiatus.
Posted by at July 31, 2004 11:23 AM
