Public Service Announcement: David Brooks Is a Self-Involved Idiot

That is all.

You can see Robert Stacy McCain (in full furious cry) and law prof-blogger Legal Insurrection disassemble Brooks if you want to, but all I have to say is, why is Brooks now surprised to discover that Obama is a statist leftist? Obama was always a statist leftist. Brooks had been deluding himself the entire time, and now he's writing stylish non-apologies about his own foolishness and proclaiming his self-proclaimed "moderation." Does anybody care?

Ditto for Christopher Buckley (rightfully lampooned earlier by Iowahawk).

It's all called "buyer's remorse," people. And, wrapped in snobbishly intellectual-sounding drivel or not, it's too late now.

MEH from someone who was never taken in by all the flash and glamour of the Obama Show in the first place. (And didn't that sound self-involved, hee hee!)

UPDATE: I'm really tickled by this takedown of Brooks by the blogosphere's favorite law prof:

DAVID BROOKS: This is not the Barack Obama I thought I knew.

Actually, it’s the same Obama it always was. Brooks, and others, were just so excited at the idea of a black President — or, more specifically, at the idea of themselves, voting for a black President — that they suspended all critical faculties. Now it’s buyer’s remorse.

HA! Well, be careful about voting to prove your moral superiority and lack of racism instead of voting for policy, I guess.