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" 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. "

John Podhoretz

Negativity

Future

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President

Life

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Rest

Horror

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Very

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