David Brooks' NY Times OpEd: " Hoping It's Biden"
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Tags: 2008, August 22, David Brooks, Delaware, Editorial, New York Daily News, New York Times, Obama, OpEd, Senator Joe Biden, vice-president
Tags: 2008, August 22, David Brooks, Delaware, Editorial, New York Daily News, New York Times, Obama, OpEd, Senator Joe Biden, vice-president
Today here in New York City there are two major newspapers with editorial page articles on prospective VPs. The NY Daily News Editorial today is "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary!" and the New York Times OpEd by David Brooks is titled "Hoping It's Biden."
Brooks opened his OpEd with this quote:
"Barack Obama has decided upon a vice-presidential running mate. And while I don’t know who it is as I write, for the good of the country, I hope he picked Joe Biden."
"There are other veep choices," Brooks writes. "Tim Kaine seems like a solid man, but selecting him would be disastrous. It would underline all the anxieties voters have about youth and inexperience. Evan Bayh has impeccably centrist credentials, but the country is not in the mood for dispassionate caution."
Here is the Web link to the full OpEd:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html?ref=opinion
Brooks opened his OpEd with this quote:
"Barack Obama has decided upon a vice-presidential running mate. And while I don’t know who it is as I write, for the good of the country, I hope he picked Joe Biden."
"There are other veep choices," Brooks writes. "Tim Kaine seems like a solid man, but selecting him would be disastrous. It would underline all the anxieties voters have about youth and inexperience. Evan Bayh has impeccably centrist credentials, but the country is not in the mood for dispassionate caution."
Here is the Web link to the full OpEd:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html?ref=opinion
Support for public transportation infrastructure.
Strong support for anti-drug law.
Strong support for womens issues.
Supports federalizing Iraq.
... Eh ...
Public trans is good.
I'm for a more Dutch approach to drugs, but since I don't spend any time in the narcotics shopping mall, (better known as highschool) I'm not effected.
It is _your_ teenagers who will get locked up with murderers and rapists because of ridiculous drug legislation, not mine. So my opinion doesn't matter too much on this subject.
Since I'm white and male that makes me oppressor of the universe and progenitor of evil, so my positions on womens/civil rights issues are likewise irrelevant to the rest of you by default.
Personally I think we should have divided Iraq like a pizza pie into three pieces and given it to Turkey, Kuwait and Iran. That would have put all the oil in the hands of people who like us, and all the fruitcakes in the hands of the people who don't, and kept the GI's snug in their beds. Federalizing is the first step in this process, so that's good.
Based on the voting for 07, it appears that congress basically sat on it's ass for the entire year. Most of his voting record is for bills patting people on the back, or declaring that something sucks, that does in fact suck. Nothing terribly innovative or creative.
Two out of three is better than nothing. But I'm far from impressed. I want Gore for another term as VP, but I'm guessing their are constitutional issues with that.