John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz
John Mordecai Podhoretzis an American writer. He is the editor of Commentary magazine, columnist for the New York Post, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 April 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
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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.
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Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
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Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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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.
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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.
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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
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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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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.