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- Tom Friedman Succumbs to Obama's Charm
- Shame and Apology
- How Do You Make It Your Own?
- "At Least, I Wasn't the Edwards Girl!"
- Free from Influence?
- "The Politics of Intellectual Contempt"
- "Happiness Coaching"
- Coaching Lessons: How to Turn Failure into Success
- The State of the Union, Preview
- The Art of the Scam
- Obama Gets It. Not!
- "The Day ObamaCare Died"
- Is Tiger Woods a Sex Addict?
- No title
- Making and Keeping Friends
- The Joy of Aging
- Is This the End of the Obama Era?
- Memoirs, Confessions, and Therapy
- Bringing the Green War Home
- The Checklist-Driven Life
- Coaching Lessons: "How to Manage Your Inner Critic"
- Flattery Works; So Do Compliments
- The French Way of Love
- Don't Go With Your Gut
- Who Should Apologize for the Financial Crisis? Part 2
- Martha Coakley and the Amirault Case
- God Turns Green ...
- Conflict Resolution
- Inconvenient Truths
- The Bankers Apologize
- Who Should Apologize for the Financial Crisis?
- About 12 Step Programs, Especially Steps 8 and 9
- Decision-Making: When Your Friends Hate Your Lover
- So You Think You Can Trade
- Intuition and Intimacy
- Are All Politicians the Same?
- Why Is So Much Psychotherapy So Bad?
- Office Etiquette
- Mistakes Job Applicants Make
- It's Not Just Obama
- More Benfits from Exercise
- In Defense of Rational Decision-Making
- Coaching Lessons: How to Solve Problems
- Losing Face: Which Matters More, the Outside or th...
- Coaching Arrives at Harvard
- Why Exercise?
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- Coaching Lessons: The Secret to Successful Change
- Sweating the Small Stuff in Your Job Interview
- The Decline of the American Man
- Obama: The God That's Failing
- Can You Control Your Cravings?
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3 comments:
Brooks must blame Congress and not Obama for the simple reason that he is still in love with Obama -- this love has been well documented by Brooks himself -- in a kind of strange Huck Jim role reversal where Jim guides the raft towards freedom.
To go to a second metaphor, Brooks is the battered spouse who simply cannot believe that he's been hit and will be hit again and looks around for something external to his abuser to blame his abuse on.
In this Brooks is like many Obambis who simply sau "I just can't quit you, Barack."
And for as long as that continues they are all in for some fundamental pain.
Surely, this is true. I am waiting to see what Brooks and the others do to retain a semblance of intellectual integrity as they allow their love to control their analyses.
Sadly, I fear that we are all in for some fundamental pain.
It is truly said, in all senses of the phrase, "You gotta burn to grow."
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