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" According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill. "
Find
Policy
Most
" A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. "
Concrete
Victory
Washington
" A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics. "
Life
Way
Politics
" Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. "
Relationship
Never
Me
" American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. "
Character
American
Nation
" 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. "
Two
First
Victory
" Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater. "
Wrong
Anything
Debate
" Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible. "
Possible
May
America
" 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. "
Career
Me
Friends
" A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president. "
Interview
People
Look
" '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. "
Zero
Three
Thirty
" A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders. "
Order
Debt
Economy
" At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. "
Republicans
Way
Work
" At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization? "
Build
Start
Fitness
" Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? "
President
Realistic
Sound
" 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. "
Nothing
Own
Victory
" Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. "
America
Years
Said
" By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. "
Who
Politics
Forward
" Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. "
Yes
Way
Today
" Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. "
Obama
Clearly
Out
" Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. "
Change
Crisis
Humanity
" Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change. "
Elections
Change
Looking
" Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. "
Decision
Strength
Yourself
" Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil. "
Inexplicable
Rush
Evil
" Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever. "
Questions
Underestimate
Technology
" Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup. "
Night
Time
Act
" Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment. "
Now
Moment
Human
" 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. "
Man
Nation
Challenges
" Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional. "
Good
Writing
Legacy
" Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. "
Economic
Away
Country
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