A history of creased pants and shopworn ideas for David Brooks and other trouser jockeys

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Today Matt Patterson takes on The New York Times’ David Brooks for his infatuation with Obama and the “limits of [Brooks’] understanding.” The jumping off point for his piece at Big Government is Brooks’ “continued fascination” with Obama’s perfectly creased pants.

So let us jump off Obama’s lap and begin this discussion with a bit of history.

You are likely not aware that trousers with creases were once sneered at.  They announced to everyone that your pants were “store bought” — creased from sitting on a store shelf, a sign they were factory-made and of inferior quality.  Those weren’t “creases” — they were permanent wrinkles.

Really nice clothes don’t come from a factory or off a store shelf; they are bespoke, expressly for you, by a tailor who begins with fine materials and finishes each detail with skill.  Any tailor who goes out of his way to steam a permanent crease in your pants is either a poor tailor, or a tailor who is trying to appeal to the class-conscious, the nouveau riche, and people who generally don’t know a lot about clothes.

But I don’t give a tinker’s cuss about Obama’s pants.  It’s his ideas I am worried about.  David Brooks should be worried, too, instead of running his hands up and down the president’s leg admiringly, like some trouser jockey.

If Obama were the real thing, and not so prêt-à-porter, his clothes — and his ideas — would not show signs of being shopworn.  They’d be original, not borrowed from the libraries of socialism.

And if David Brooks were a man of true intellect, and not a product of Ivy League factories, he would readily recognize both the origin and the consequences of Obama’s views.  Obama is anything but an original thinker; his politics and his strategies are factory-made, lifted right out of the book.  It is inexcusable for Brooks not to see this.

David Brooks may be a nice fellow, but American Thinker’s Stuart Schwartz nailed it when he labeled him an “Obama-designated conservative intellectual” and “MSNBC-anointed voice for America’s conservative masses.”  Brooks is not as smart as he thinks he is.  His conservative bona fides are highly suspect, and he is a perhaps a bit too class-conscious.

It has been endlessly and authoritatively documented that Obama has lifted his dangerous, un-American, and, frankly, crackpot ideas from the writings of some of the most poisonous minds in politics, like Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Jeremiah Wright, and yes, Karl Marx.  His appointees and lifelong associates are all disciples of the same school of thought (if you can call it thought), and have been hand-picked by Obama or his handlers expressly for that reason.

Team Obama all shop at the same store, and drink from the same sewer.  Their brains are permanently wrinkled. You can see it in their inferior ideas.