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According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't…

— Charlie Pierce

You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be…

— Ato Essandoh

To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Nevertheless, that Obama was a movement leftist with ambitions to be a transformative president was information available, without great effort, to anyone who wanted…

— Andrew McCarthy

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

— David Lammy

There was something so empowering about having President Obama in office because I know that for many of us, that's something that we never…

— Jesmyn Ward

The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction of some…

— Jimmy Carter

“Barack Obama disappeared from the political scene even more rapidly than he had appeared a dozen years before. He was replaced by a populist,…

— Piero San Giorgio

When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

— Wadada Leo Smith

Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself. He got…

— Steven Levy

President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of…

— Danny Glover

“[Obama] was the Harvard Law Review president who never published a word, the community organizer who never organized a thing, the state legislator who…

— Mark Steyn