American - Journalist | February 6, 1941 -
I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.
Richard Cohen
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Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.
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Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived - American exceptionalism at work again.
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My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.
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Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?
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As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.
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Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.
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Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and he is an amoral man in so many ways. But, in contrast to Obama, his emotions are no mystery.
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Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.
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Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.
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Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.
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Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.
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