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" Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. "
John Podhoretz
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" By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate. "
John Podhoretz
World
Debate
Government
" Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. "
John Podhoretz
Us
Rest
Horror
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
World
Conflict
Reality
" The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job. "
John Podhoretz
Presidency
Electoral
Job
" The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market. "
John Podhoretz
Defense
Sick
Point
" I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. "
John Podhoretz
Who
Culture
American
" Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost. "
John Podhoretz
People
Fight
Good
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Most
Giving
American
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Memories
Zero
Horror
" Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. "
John Podhoretz
Creating
Achieving
Short
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Change
Hope
New
" By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. "
John Podhoretz
Class
Tax
Will
" If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut. "
John Podhoretz
Need
Know
Health
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Confusion
Show
Nor
" 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
Animals
Different
Who
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Hunger
Now
Speak
" 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
More
" Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right. "
John Podhoretz
Employees
Boss
Father
" Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. "
John Podhoretz
Win
Great
New
" Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. "
John Podhoretz
Greatest
Politicians
History
" For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. "
John Podhoretz
Republican
He
Thinking
" 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
TV
Suicide
Children
" America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. "
John Podhoretz
Elect
Going
America
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Food
Job
Know
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Sitting
Why
Country
" Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. "
John Podhoretz
Internet
Direction
Understand
" Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. "
John Podhoretz
Intelligence
Restless
Kind
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
American
Election
History
" The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. "
John Podhoretz
Country
New
Newspaper
" Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. "
John Podhoretz
Himself
He
Very