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Jonah Goldberg: Obama – Man on a Mission
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Obama: Man on a Mission
By Jonah Goldberg
In 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama insisted that the coming presidential primary and general election campaigns “shouldn’t be about making each other look bad, they should be about figuring out how we can all do some good for this precious country of ours. That’s our mission.”
“And in this [...]
Jonah Goldberg: GOP Presidential Race – What’s the Rush?
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GOP Presidential Race: What’s the Rush?
By Jonah Goldberg
In 2008, the Democrats were blessed with two candidates the party’s rank-and-file admired almost as much as the press corps did. Ultimately Barack Obama, the hope-and-change guy, was more popular than Hillary Clinton if for no other reason than that the former first lady came with [...]
Jonah Goldberg: Biden Sticks to the Playbook
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Biden Sticks to the Playbook
By Jonah Goldberg
“I wish [critics of the administration's jobs bill] had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit [to rape].” — Vice President Joe Biden, Oct. 18, [...]
Jonah Goldberg: Obama, Abroad, Is Adrift
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Obama, Abroad, Is Adrift
By Jonah Goldberg
Since President Obama has been having a rough time lately, let me belatedly congratulate him on his apparently successful policy of regime change in Libya.
Initially, I favored a more robust and decisive intervention when Obama seemed to dither, and then I criticized how he ultimately committed the United [...]
Jonah Goldberg: The Ideologue in the Oval Office
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The Ideologue in the Oval Office
By Jonah Goldberg
“I think increasingly the American people are going to say to themselves, ‘You know what? If a party or a politician is constantly taking the position my-way-or-the-highway, constantly being locked into ideologically rigid positions, that we’re going to remember at the polls,’” President Obama said at [...]
Jonah Goldberg: Obama and the Shifting Ground of Race
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Obama and the Shifting Ground of Race
By Jonah Goldberg
Princeton’s Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of “free black men.” Because of Obama’s atypical upbringing, West says, “when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane [...]
Jonah Goldberg: A Sharper GOP Field
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A Sharper GOP Field
By Jonah Goldberg
The Republican presidential logjam has finally broken.
Donald Trump, who believes not only that he would make the best president but that he could win, declined to run because making money is his true “passion.” It’s as if Cincinnatus loved his plow too much.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also [...]
Jonah Goldberg: The Unhappy President
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The Unhappy President
By Jonah Goldberg
“The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff. … I’m like, ‘C’mon guys, I’m the president of the United States. Where’s the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up?’ It doesn’t happen.”
–President Barack H. Obama
The list of people [...]
Jonah Goldberg: A Solution at Obama’s Fingertips
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A Solution at Obama’s Fingertips
by Jonah Goldberg
On Tuesday, the president will deliver his State of the Union message.
The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will continue his “move to the center.” The quotation marks are necessary because some people think he really is moving to the center, while others think he just [...]
Jonah Goldberg: Obama’s Outsized Ego
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Obama’s Outsized Ego
by Jonah Goldberg
“That’s all right, all of you know who I am,” President Obama joked last week when the presidential seal fell off his podium during a speech in Pittsburgh.
Even though the incident made headlines for no discernible journalistic reason, it was noteworthy as a succinct example [...]