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" Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. "
John Podhoretz
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" Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him. "
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" Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives. "
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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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" Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take. "
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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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Conflict
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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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Direction
Understand
" Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost. "
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Song
Lost
Must
" While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. "
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Negativity
Future
American
" For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. "
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He
Thinking
" The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen. "
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Meeting
Debt
Government
" Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. "
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He
Very
" America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. "
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Rights
Nation
" What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail. "
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Saying
Big
" 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. "
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Present
Fashion
Now
" When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model. "
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Know
Insight
Team
" Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. "
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Love
Government
Most
" Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him. "
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American
Tone
" Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. "
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Ways
Weakness
" America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. "
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Elect
Going
America
" The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job. "
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Job
" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "
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Throne
Way
Always
" Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. "
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President
He
Life
" Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. "
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Intelligence
Restless
Kind
" 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. "
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Listening
Country
Own
" Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers. "
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Over
Will
Go
" Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him. "
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Defining
Him
Way
" Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. "
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Greatest
Politicians
History
" Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. "
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American
Election
History
" What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil. "
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Evil
Quality
People
" When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed. "
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Myself
Parents