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Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
John Sununu
Life
Art
Business
Blame
Cold
Others
Back
Spending
Deficits
No Business
Bad
Obama
Blaming
Simpler
Had
He
Investment
Economy
Iraq
Refined
Art Form
Wall
Wall Street
Afghanistan
Tax
Form
Tax Cuts
Barack
Bush
Cuts
Then
Much
Act
Wars
Street
Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.
John Sununu
Political
Behavior
Energy
Jet
Corporate
Obama
Promote
Economic
Instead
Without
How
Revenue
Question
Efficiency
Hit
Trying
Personal
Owners
Bankers
Tax
Tax Code
Manipulate
Next
Should
View
Inherently
Companies
Whom
Code
Raising
Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.
John Sununu
Politics
Blame
Simple
Tough
Thrive
Obama
Something
Rating
Clean
No-One
Advantage
Come
Economy
Messages
Loss
Left
Unemployment
America
Stagnant
Played
Watch
I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.
John Waters
Believe
Obama
Would
Both
Outsiders
Trump
Themselves
Describe
The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.
John Yarmuth
People
Thought
Desperately
Honey
Back
Wilderness
Out
Willing
Obama
Seeking
Lead
He
Mortal
New
Moses
Proved
Were
American
Listen
Maybe
Anyone
After
Barack
Barack Obama
Them
Land
American People
Milk
Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.
Jon Favreau
Me
People
Half
Confuse
Think
Other
Kind
Obama
Entourage
Write
Know
Am
Fame
Where
Who
Level
Speeches
It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
Jon Lovett
Good
Timing
Unfair
Obama
Charming
Guy
Comedic
Also
Barack
Barack Obama
Cool
One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.
Jon Meacham
Day
Economic Crisis
Right Track
Long
President
President Obama
Rule
Crisis
Obama
Seeks
Economic
Recover
Arguing
Takes
Longer
Re-Election
Economy
Track
Without
Making
His
Years
Campaign
Than
American
Goes
May
Wonders
American Economy
Whether
Bush
Right
Hardly
Four
Apply
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
Jon Meacham
Religion
Desperate
Politician
Birthplace
Say
Obama
Tend
Attacks
Come
Identity
Himself
Opponent
Questioning
Sell
Romney
Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.
Jon Meacham
President
Critical
Obama
Steely
Take
Weighing
Powerful
Re-Elect
Operation
Test
Exhibit
Commander
Account
Chief
American
Anyone
Whether
Should
Many
Bin
The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.
Jon Voight
Change
People
Wake Up
Beginning
President
President Obama
Obama
Exactly
Exactly What
Brought
Voted
Envisioned
Gotten
Wake
Up
Just
Who
This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.
Jon Voight
God
Time
Needs
World
Strong
Will
Seen
Country
Before
Live
Every
President
Our
Way
Weakened
Obama
See
More
Through
Perilous
Forbid
Era
Than
America
United
Socialist
Ever
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
Jon Voight
War
Country
Own
President
Our
President Obama
Obama
Civil
Civil War
Real
Question
Real Question
Stake
Creating
Now
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
Jonah Goldberg
Logical
Deficit
Deficits
Obama
More
Fact
Vastly
Mystery
He
Came
Up
Debt
Office
Did
Bigger
Justifies
Racking
Inherit
Why
In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.
Jonathan Krohn
Smart
Example
Party
Own
Think
President
Ram
Extreme
Obama
General
Through
He
Idea
Like
For Example
Policies
Because
Healthcare
Been
His
Lot
Very
Trying
Same
Any
Politically
Skewed
Capital
Used
Even
Now
Wasted
I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.
Jonathan Krohn
Beginning
Think
President
President Obama
Obama
His
Lot
Realize
Plans
My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
Jonathan Krohn
Extreme
Obama
Views
Dad
Socialist
Thinks
'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.
Jonathan Raban
Dreams
Time
Political
Father
Mind
Obama
About
More
Leaders
Feels
Like
Perhaps
Until
Dead
Known
Reader
Audience
Reveals
Real
Private
His
Political Leaders
Than
Real Time
After
Sentence
Working
Shows
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.
Jonathan Raban
Dreams
Best
Book
Father
President
Jimmy
Obama
Carter
Only
Bears
Campaign
Modern
Short
Autobiography
Serious
Comparison
Why
Published
Why Not
For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'
Jonathan Turley
Memories
Animal
Book
Try
White
White House
Farm
Programs
Back
Apt
Scandal
Obama
Administration
Citizens
Obama Administration
Brought
Seems
More
Allies
Contain
House
Massive
Another
Disclosure
George
Surveillance
Many
Orwell
Recent
I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.
Jonathan Turley
Change
Election
Thought
Become
Sides
Obama
About
Both
Both Sides
He
Support
Supported
Issue
George
George Bush
Very
Quiet
Refreshing
Going
Happened
Barack
Barack Obama
Bush
Icon
People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.
Jonathan Turley
People
Will
Response
Has-Been
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Muted
More
Part
Supporting
Know
Because
Traditional
Been
Than
Same
Just
Happen
Anything
Bush
Bush Administration
Realize
Reason
Harder
Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.
Jonathan Turley
People
Few
President
President Obama
Obama
More
Charts
Attack
Attacks
Know
Terms
Off
Times
Than
Did
Few People
Bush
Used
Many
Ever
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
Jonathan Turley
Legal
Law
Achieve
First
Whatever
Relative
Plenty
Obama
Constitutional
About
Misconception
Tend
First Of All
Principles
Trying
Former
Barack
Barack Obama
View
Who
Professor
Professors
Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.
Jonathan Turley
Money
Congress
President
Say
Obama
Someone
Impeached
Laws
Various
Federal
He
Likely
Officers
Transferred
Next
Who
Violated
Appointed
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
Jonathan Turley
You
Important
President
Our
System
Obama
Something
Policies
How
Often
Happen
Many
Agree
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