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" 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. "

John Podhoretz

Meeting

Debt

Government

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" Let us now praise Barack Obama. "

John Podhoretz

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Barack Obama

" The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. "

" 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. "

" While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered. "

" Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. "

" Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters. "

" Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else. "

" Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. "

" You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. "

" The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. "

" Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. "

" One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close. "

" Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. "

John Podhoretz

Himself

Very

" The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them. "

" As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. "

" Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. "

" Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. "

" Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. "

" In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered. "

" 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. "

" Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. "

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

John Podhoretz

Conservative

New

" Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. "

" The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. "