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[Normally, presidents look weak during periods of economic stagnation, overwhelmed by events. But Obama has displayed a kind of ESPN masculinity: postfeminist in his values, but also thoroughly traditional in style — hypercompetitive, restrained, not given to self-doubt, rarely self-indulgent. Administrations are undone by scandal and moments when they look pathetic, but this administration, guarded in all things, has rarely had those moments.]
["I’d say that Obama is a slight underdog this year: the scuffling economy will grind away at voters. But his leadership style is keeping him afloat. He has defined a version of manliness that is postboomer in policy but preboomer in manners and reticence."]
David Brooks, in an almost historic column, in a state of enthrallment, threw out a love line to Obama when he said he liked the sharp crease of Obama's pants. At the least Brooks is an effete elitist and a legend in his own mind. He is most certainly a sycophant to the liberal media establishment as their conservative lap dog the same as Andrew Sullivan. I read one column a year of Brooks and Sullivan and that is more than enough for me.
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