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" Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. "
Cheap
Racial
Action
" Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible. "
Practice
Journalism
Bible
" Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' "
Powerful
Back
Foolish
" Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins. "
Most
Inspirational
Unusual
" Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel. "
Humility
Compassion
Arrogance
" Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats. "
Budget
Man
Party
" Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. "
Life
Diversity
American
" Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient). "
Young
Democrats
Men
" For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. "
Political
Sorry
Life Is A
" I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these. "
Care
Believe
Poverty
" I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was. "
Political
Fresh
Consciousness
" If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money. "
Money
Less
Age
" If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation. "
Been
Nebraska
Deal
" I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done. "
Age
Way
Me
" I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do. "
Know
Marriage
More
" In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly. "
Group
Draft
Effort
" In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction. "
Fact
Process
Political
" Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. "
Writing
Colors
Confused
" Political courage requires clarity. "
Courage
Requires
Clarity
" Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. "
Page
Enemies
Great
" Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either. "
Health
Embrace
Way
" That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done. "
Democracy
Done
Justice
" This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy. "
World
Evil
Wealth
" Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that. "
Cause
Common
History
" You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show. "
Show
Your
News
" You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses. "
Politicians
Know
You
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