“I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.” YearsLooksHas BeensBookSelfNew YorkHatredReviewsVehicleSophisticatedSelf HatredAnti-american Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” StatesUseTeamStrategyDemocraticClintonComplicatedPrimariesSneakInspirational TeamDelegatesCaucus Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” PeopleKnowsWorldMadeJobsSonUniqueConcernedBasesTablesArguingTreatmentDay To Day Author:John Podhoretz
“Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.” GovernmentPresidentRationalSpotsVulnerableExecutivesSenateModeratesAppointmentsMisuseElectorateRecessExecutive Power Author:John Podhoretz
“Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.” PeopleNeedsJobsRiskSecurityWorkersCreatorStabilityCraveRisk-takingJob Creators Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” PresidentPercentVoteElectionMinoritiesAmerican History Author:John Podhoretz
“Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.” WorldWayAmericaChoicesLeftPresidentDoubtPolicyImportanceIncludingAwfulBordersNo DoubtForeign PolicyParamount Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” ShouldHorrorRadicalPassagesAmerican HistoryLegislationImplicationsThanking Him Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” IfsFatherTalkingEmployeeBossVotersPrincipalEmployersEmployees And Employers Author:John Podhoretz
“Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.” LostAbilityResultsPolicyElectionDemocraticCongressPocketsAgendasMassiveNovember Author:John Podhoretz
“Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.” YearsLittlesMovingPoliticalNationsRepublicanYears AgoMarginsCoalitionsDemographics Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” KnowsFirstsFactsSpeakPartyConversationHungerVersionsBlogsCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:John Podhoretz
“Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.” WantCuttingCenturyPolicyPositionTaxesBudgetsCandidatesDedicatedForeign PolicyPropositionsAdoptedRomneyObamacarePro LifeUnapologetic Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” PeopleMenCountryFightingLostIntelligentGenerousRomneyGenerous Man Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” GovernmentWealthVisionCreationProsperityExpensesPromotionRomneyWealth Creation Author:John Podhoretz
“That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.” CausesGoneForeverTroubleFashionRepublicanSnowBlockBarackPrimariesPresidentialPresidencyRivalsUnprecedentedDistinctiveStumblingStumbling BlocksYesteryear Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” LastsWinningWhiteSawsRepublicanPercentVoteElectionMalesPresidentialCoalitionsPresidential Election Author:John Podhoretz
“The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.” PeopleIfsViewsIntellectualMagazinesClassicOppositionThumbsIdeological Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” WorldYearsFirstsIdeasWarCountryStatesRealityExistenceConflictBasesIsraelActiveIsraeliHostageArab Israeli Conflict Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” ChildrenMiddleMediaTvsMessagesGloryResearchSuicideTerrorismEastDecadesInnocentMiddle EastPalestinianInstituteTextbooksDiseased Author:John Podhoretz
“The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.” PoliticianRepublicanStrategyConservativeActivistTacticsScornFuryTruest Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” WayRealStoriesProjectsOfficialsNeighborhoodZeroSiteAstonishingReconstructionMosquesReal StoryGround Zero Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” GovernmentHappensWould BeHappenedMeetingsDebtObligationCalamityDefault Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” FirstsTwoWarCountryStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesDebtDecadesNewspapersObligationRevolutionaryFoundersTrustworthyHamiltonRevolutionary War Author:John Podhoretz
“There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.” EndsLightPromiseRepublicanMessagesDeclineTunnelsStagnationLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:John Podhoretz
“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.” WayPresidentGoes OnPresidentialThronesMudRise AboveSpearsFlingFraySurrogates Author:John Podhoretz
“What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.” PeopleNeedsFilmEvilQualityHeroIronyHeroismAdoreSignalsSuperheroPortrayalNolan Author:John Podhoretz
“Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.” WantYearsCountryMightLastsMovingThreeEconomicListeningTriumphThree YearsDescribing Author:John Podhoretz
“You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.” WantTwoPoliticalCultureResultsEconomyConditionsRootsIsraelDecadesThriveRemarkablePalestinianSocialistAccordSigningPolitical CultureOslo Author:John Podhoretz
“When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.” KnowsKindTeamModelsConsciousInsightBillionsTagInspirational TeamPrice TagTarp Author:John Podhoretz
“You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.” KnowsWantDoeGovernmentPresidentCommunityDecisionMillionsPolicyCollegeOfficePresidentialImmigrantsApesNotableBlackberriesCommunity CollegeUndocumented Immigrants Author:John Podhoretz
“Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.” YearsNextImagineTaxesGainsIncreaseIncludingDelightBillionsWealthyInheritanceProposeNotableRaising TaxesCapital GainsInheritance Tax Author:John Podhoretz
“This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night's State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.” FirstsStatesNightCoursesChancePartyMembersUnionsResponseRagePassingPassingsAddressesNotableOpposingTuesdayTuesday Night Author:John Podhoretz
