Something Not About Education... Finally!

On November 17^th 2014, David Brooks wrote an article titled “Obama in Winter” in the Opinions section in The New York Times. Brooks wrote an analytic article retracing Obama’s recent choices during the election for Congress. He critiques the President’s decisions to be “superaggressive” with the new Republican majority; misusing executive powers to get his agenda taken care of for issues like immigration and the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

            I believe that Brooks intended to reach a Democratic audience, definitely more so than a Republican audience. Despite the fact that Brooks does critique Obama and his administration, the tone of his critique isn’t derogatory. He sounds frustrated and disappointed and I think he’s trying to connect to disappointed Democrats. The audience he’s trying to reach must also be well-educated in politics and current national debates. I know about the pipeline, but that’s because I read the news and even then I don’t pay close attention to the actions of Obama’s administration. An average teenager might not be able to fully relate to the article or even uninformed adults.

            In addition Brooks seems to argue that Obama’s actions will lead to massive political unrest, anti government fervor and unrest. He believes this will happen since Obama seems to be aggressively pushing his agenda into a newly seated Republican Congress. Obama’s efforts to overcome this defeat is only helping the Republican’s efforts to rid certain acts and reforms from the discussion. He even suggest that Obama is helping the Republican Party get a Republican President in the next election. I think that his argument is legit and I agree with him. Obama has been acting strangely since the vote and his actions aren't very encouraging for Democrats. The vote seems to be swinging towards the Republicans and I’m not sure that any act to reverse this will help.

            David Brooks is a very legitimate author for The New York Times. He’s been working for the paper since 2003 and holds the title of Opinion-Editor Columnist. He’s written more than a 1000 articles and has even written a book.