I don’t feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. John Podhoretz Read Quote
America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. John Podhoretz Read Quote
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. John Podhoretz Read Quote
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country’s course. This cuts against the grain, and that’s why incumbents have a natural advantage. John Podhoretz Read Quote
Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don’t like it when their employees yell at them – even if their employees have it right. John Podhoretz Read Quote
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can’t be allowed to happen. John Podhoretz Read Quote
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we’re desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. John Podhoretz Read Quote
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. John Podhoretz Read Quote
Obama’s presidency hasn’t been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. John Podhoretz Read Quote
