Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at:… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.' — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he?… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head.… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it.… — Tina Brown Copy Share
Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. — Tina Brown Copy Share
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. — Tina Brown Copy Share
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of… — Tina Brown Copy Share
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to… — Tina Brown Copy Share
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. — Tina Brown Copy Share
Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but… — Tina Brown Copy Share
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and… — Tina Brown Copy Share
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or… — Tina Brown Copy Share
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. — Tina Brown Copy Share
