Last week, David Brooks scolded those of us who are too blind to see that the President is and has always been a "center-left pragmatic reformer". In supporting this claim, Brooks points to Obama's books, speeches, and even his "on-the-one-hand-on-the-other sentence structure". That's right, speeches, words, and sentence structure make him a pragmatic reformer. Brooks even calls the President "courageous" on the issue of education reform because of a speech he made about failing schools. I guess the speech is supposed to help us ignore the fact that the President chose not to save the DC voucher program, a program which actually does save kids from failing schools.
And then yesterday on Meet the Press, Brooks called the President a "riverboat gambler", who is betting his entire Presidency on this health care reform.
So, according to Brooks, the President is a "riverboat gambling pragmatic reformer".
What? It sounds contradictory to me, but maybe I'm just not smart enough to decipher this Presidency the way David Brooks has.
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