Update 2

"I love McCain"

• Brooks spoke of his friendly and honest nature. No matter how raw his honesty may be. "I would trust my life with the guy."
  
• Brooks did hit on some of his downfalls: McCain is a slob, not organized.
• McCain is able to balance national tilt towards democrats because he is a little different.
• In differentiating McCain from Bush: he is must less doctrinaire, has a much broader range of advisers, he had a good plan for Iraq in 2003, but it was being implemented 4 years later and came too late. He would be much different than Bush in foreign policy.
• "The real issue to the voters is not policy, but character, and this is smart because you want to know how the person will act in future situations."

Paradise Drive

• In response to materialism, Brooks said that Americans will remain a spiritual people. Suburbanization is not necessarily a bad thing. He described college students as: very busy, work ethic, most supervised generation in history, lots of service, going into social entrepreneur things. "Says to me that people's behavior is basically decent"
  
• He remains a "Walt Disney" optimist on American Culture
• When questioned on rewards for servant behavior, he said that most good behavior is never "pure", and while social service may have come from other motivations, the behavior goes beyond that.
  
• He cited social indicators in younger generations as going down: divorice under 30, teen pregnancy, abortion, teen violence.