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- Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.
- More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts…
- Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
- Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.
- President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you…
- So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court…
- There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans'…
- One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the…
- It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's…
More Obama Quotes
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected. — Bill Ayers
- I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security… — Michele Bachmann
- The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann
- I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he… — Michele Bachmann
- It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his… — Russell Baker
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker