Commenting on John Kerry’s acceptance speech the other night on PBS, David Brooks
\ndescribed the Democrats as the nation’s Mommy Party trying to co-opt the Republicans in their
\ntraditional role of Daddy Party. I nearly fell off my chair laughing at what he passes off as
\npunditry.<\/P>
\n
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\nBobo Boy Wonder’s deepest plunge yet into condescending juvenilia.<\/P>
\n
\na trustworthy commander in chief to get elected, though it makes you wonder why our
\nsitting nincompoop in chief doesn’t have to. But I object to Brooks’s patronizing
\nimplication that the nation is a baby in diapers.<\/P>
\n