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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Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
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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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By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
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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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She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
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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.