Reply #11: are you talking about Brooks, or Obama, being a moderate?

[Gabi Hayes]

EDIT, cause I just realized I might've misread your post: surely you jest, if it's Brooks...if it's Obama, I just wasted all the info on this post.

he just makes stuff up, all the time, like the salad bar at Applebee's (which doesn't exist), and his BS about Obama not reaching poor whites, etc.:

In introducing Brooks, Harwood stated: "David, you have argued in your column that Barack Obama at the beginning of the year was leading a movement that was shaking up American politics, but that over time he's become more and more of a conventional politician. Why do you say that, and what do you mean?" Brooks responded that "the movement hit some natural parameters among highly educated, affluent people, people who live in places like Portland, Oregon," then claimed that "the magic is not felt by a lot of people. It's not felt, obviously, by a lot of less educated people, downscale people. They just look at Obama, and they don't see anything."

After claiming that Obama "doesn't seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee's salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there," Brooks added: "And so he's had to change to try to be more like that Applebee's guy, and as he's done that, he's become much more transactional, much more, 'I'm going to deliver this, and this, and this for you' on policy."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806030004

and Obama's not connecting among the "less educated, downscale" people, right? does that include white people who don't make much money? god forbid you pay attention to the polls, or anything like that, which might give you a FACTUAL BASIS for your droolings, mr. Brooks:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080301969.html?hpid=topnews


HARDEST HIT Low-Wage Workers: Obama Leads, Pessimism Reigns Among Key Group

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holds a 2 to 1 edge over Republican Sen. John McCain among the nation's low-wage workers, but many are unconvinced that either presidential candidate would be better than the other at fixing the ailing economy or improving the health-care system, according to a new national poll.


Obama's advantage is attributable largely to overwhelming support from two traditional Democratic constituencies: African Americans and Hispanics. But even among white workers -- a group of voters that has been targeted by both parties as a key to victory in November -- Obama leads McCain by 10 percentage points, 47 percent to 37 percent, and has the advantage as the more empathetic candidate.