I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.
America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
Let us now praise Barack Obama.
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.
You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
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