Faces Quote by Ron Fournier

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing…

— Ron Fournier

“Barack Obama’s election was a triumph of hope. But his presidency was a triumph of persistence.”

— David Litt

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak, his foreign…

— Ben Shapiro

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he…

— Charlie Pierce

“What distinguished Obama was his determination not to wait until he had forged a longer political record of his achievement, and the historic conjunction…

— Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about…

— Sarah Palin

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

— John Podhoretz

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election.

— Sarah Palin

I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but…

— Bill Ayers

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

— David Brooks

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

— Eric Alterman

Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

— George W. Bush