Eric Alterman Quotes - Page 2

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• Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

  Eric Alterman

  Matter, Sin, Presidency

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• The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

  Eric Alterman

  Years, Year End, Issues

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• As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

  Eric Alterman

  Significant, Aspect, Catastrophe

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• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  Eric Alterman

  Sea, Presidential, Mind

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• Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, Mistake, Iraq

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• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

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  Baseball, Team, Years

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• Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

  Eric Alterman

  Struggle, Issues, Agendas

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• Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

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  Income, Pay, Cleaning

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• We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

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  Technology, Media, Personality

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• While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

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  Political, Patterns, Repeats

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• As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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  Jobs, Parent, Example

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• Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

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  Government, Degrees, May

  "Think Again: The Era of the 'One Percent'" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

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  Self Confidence, Addresses, Auras

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.157, Nation Books

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• More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

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  Hands, Worry, Reruns

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• Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.

  Eric Alterman

  Believe, Media, Shakes

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• For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

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  Past, Eight, Years

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• Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

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  Kenya, Born, Carter

  "Obama's Awful '70's Show Echoes Carter" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.

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  Past, College, Years

  Eric Alterman (2008). “Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals”, p.10, Penguin

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• The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, Party, Deception

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• The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.

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  Jobs, Successful, White

  Eric Alterman (2008). “What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News”, p.233, Basic Books

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• There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

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  Lying, Cutting, Offering

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• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

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  Mistake, Eggs, Decision

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• President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

  Eric Alterman

  President, Today, Taxes

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

  Eric Alterman

  Disappointment, Issues, Accomplishment

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books

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• Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

  Eric Alterman

  Mad, Return, Hell

  "Who speaks for me?". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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