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• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

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  Team, Use, Complicated

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• It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

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  Jobs, Son, Unique

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• Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

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  Jobs, People, Risk

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• 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.

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  War, Sides, Truth Is

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• What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

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  Simple, United States, Failing

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• 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.

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  Party, Successful, Israel

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• 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.

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  College, Government, Office

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• 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.

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  Country, War, Reality

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• 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.

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  Winning, White, Presidential

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• You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

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  Israel, Two, Roots

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• Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

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  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

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  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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• I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

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  People, Culture, Feels

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• She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

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  Beauty, Weakness, Needs

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

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  Robots, Rich

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• For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

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  Thinking, Example, Republican

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• Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

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  Bills, Internet, Computing

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• Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

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  Accomplishment, Political, Victory

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• I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

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  Thinking, Scorpions, Eric

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• Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

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  President, Vote, Newts

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• I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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  Cities, Atmosphere, Conservative

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• Let us now praise Barack Obama.

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  Praise, Barack

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• Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

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  Sweet, Winning, Your Side

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• Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

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  Kind, Restless, Newts

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• 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.

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  Running, Deputies, Shops

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