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Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

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Wife, Pals, Clinton

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According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

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Lice, Hills, Capitol Hill

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A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

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Jobs, People, Presidential

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A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

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Victory, President, Guarantees

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Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

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Night, Leader, Political

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Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

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Campaigns, Narrative, Trouble

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If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

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America, Guilty, Misgivings

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Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

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Views, Years, America

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Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

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Victory, President, Campaigns

"Ron Fournier Is Smarter Than You Are" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

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Zero, Dark, Three

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AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

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Careers, White, House

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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

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Two, Victory, Desire

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With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

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Leadership, Approval Rating, Lost

"Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber" by Ron Fournier, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

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War, Home, White

"Here's Why The White House Leaked News That Obama Overruled Petraeus On Afghan Troop Drawdown" by Ricky Kreitner, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2011.

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Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

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Adversity, Odds, President

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The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

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Political, Understanding, Criticism

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For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

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Men, Challenges, Age

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Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

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Presidential, Honest, Surprise

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Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

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Technology, Crowds, Voters

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In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

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Forgiving, President, Voters

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Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

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Evil, Inexplicable

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Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

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Perfect, Debate

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Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

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Country, Kings, Office

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

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Winning, May, Influential

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Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

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War, Iraq, Aftermath

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