“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