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" All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. "

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" Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage. "

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Sitting

Why

Country

" The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis. "

John Podhoretz

Suicide

Children

" 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. "

" The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future. "

" Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. "

" By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. "

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

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

" There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment. "

John Podhoretz

Conservative

New

" I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

John Podhoretz

Republican

Thinking

" As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine. "

" Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. "

" Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say. "

John Podhoretz

Worth

Columns

" Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. "

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

" 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. "

" For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. "

" But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. "

" Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. "

" 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. "

" Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody. "

" Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. "

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

John Podhoretz

President

Life

" Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out. "

John Podhoretz

Cheating

Bad

" America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. "

" That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles. "