David Brooks
New York Times
March 4, 2008
This editorial was basically just David Brooks explaining why he loves Barrack Obama so much. Since the democratic campaign began, it has been nothing but back and forth banter between candidates, however according to Brooks, the defining moment was November 10, 2007. That was the Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner which invited candidates to speak. Hillary Clinton gave a rousing speech about fighting (she said the word "fight" a lot) the Republicans and really putting on the heat under the Republicans to make sure the next president would be a Democrat. However, Obama was next to speak, where he, instead of waging a partisan campaign as Clinton had just done, he vowed to address “not just Democrats, but Republicans and independents who’ve lost trust in their government but want to believe again.” This was very different than Clinton's battle cry speech. Apparently his goals of equality and standing up, one person at a time made him very appealing to everyone, despite political affiliation. Brooks believes this was the time where Obama defined his point of view on the presidency and anyone should be impressed by such a candidate. Despite the fact that this article was a bit of a tangent on why Brooks loves Obama so much, I believe there was a lot of good evidence presented and it made me want to vote for Obama.
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I also read this article and the author really does persuade his reader to be all for Obama. I enjoyed it even though he is extremely biased. Sometimes, if you know how to get the point across in a persuading way, it's okay to be biased.
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