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" 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. "

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" Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. "

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Relaxing

Weapon

" 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. "

Tina Brown

Experience

Politics

" Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. "

" 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. "

Tina Brown

Question

" 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. "

" The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. "

" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "

" Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas. "

" Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table. "

" For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her. "

" If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? "

" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "

" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "

" There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is. "

Tina Brown

Radical

About

" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "

" Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in. "

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

" Economics has become as riveting as politics. "

" Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. "

" One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine. "

" In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money. "

" Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. "

Tina Brown

Beck

Still

" Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms. "

" 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. "

" It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed. "

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

" To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. "

" Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe. "

" The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. "

" The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. "

Tina Brown

Girl

Fear