David Brooks on Obama's Promises
David Brooks
Thursday, January 19, 2010
David Brooks: "In many ways, Barack Obama has lived up to his promise. He has created a thoughtful, pragmatic administration marked by a culture of honest and vigorous debate. When Obama makes a decision, you can be sure that he has heard and accounted for every opposing argument. If he senses an important viewpoint is not represented at a meeting, he will stop the proceedings and demand that it gets included.
"If the evidence leads him in directions he finds uncomfortable, he will still follow the evidence. He is beholden to no ideological camp, and there is no group in his political base that he has not angered at some point in his first year."
[The rest of this regarding "a voracious pragmatism"---I'm not convinced.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/opinion/19brooks.html
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Thursday, January 19, 2010
David Brooks: "In many ways, Barack Obama has lived up to his promise. He has created a thoughtful, pragmatic administration marked by a culture of honest and vigorous debate. When Obama makes a decision, you can be sure that he has heard and accounted for every opposing argument. If he senses an important viewpoint is not represented at a meeting, he will stop the proceedings and demand that it gets included.
"If the evidence leads him in directions he finds uncomfortable, he will still follow the evidence. He is beholden to no ideological camp, and there is no group in his political base that he has not angered at some point in his first year."
[The rest of this regarding "a voracious pragmatism"---I'm not convinced.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/opinion/19brooks.html
Copied from FaceBook note of 1/21/2010
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