New York Times Columnist Line of the Day

If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas Friedman, Gail Collins, Nicholas Kristoff, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy.

Despite Brooks sounding like a Communist version of Bernie Sanders today, today\’s Line of the Day (TM) comes from Roger Cohen, who in today\’s column entitled \”The Narrowing,\” wrote:

Obama became president because — beyond eating peaches — he dared disturb the universe.

Peaches?