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" No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package. "

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" Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. "

" Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter. "

" Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton. "

" Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare. "

" TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. "

" Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve. "

" Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre. "

" Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days. "

" An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids. "

" Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. "

" Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. "

" When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. "

" Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him? "

" The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished. "

" There is nobody more boring than the undefeated. "

" Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of. "

" When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. "

" I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham. "

" What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' "

" It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. "

" I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. "

" After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are. "

" I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' "

" Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. "

" In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular. "

" When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep. "

" It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs. "