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Christie’s Respect for Obama Key to Minority Votes
(The Root)—Although the Republican National Committee’s 2012 “autopsy” report has been gathering dust on the shelf ever since it was rolled out to much fanfare earlier this year, it looks like at least one 2016 presidential contender actually printed off that report and read the part about the urgent need for Republicans to make inroads…
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Obama's 5-Year Mark: More Hits Than Misses
(The Root) — Exactly five years after his election, it’s a tough time to take stock of Barack Obama’s legacy. In the same week in which he’s had to defend Obamacare’s difficult rollout and that saw his approval rating drop to a low of 42 percent, Forbes magazine is now piling on by ranking Obama…
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Obamacare: A Careless and Clumsy Launch
(The Root) — It turns out that over the past four years, all those times President Barack Obama told Americans that “if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it,” it wasn’t quite as simple as it sounded. In politics, after all, if you can fit a proposal on a bumper sticker, there’s a…
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How the GOP Lost the Shutdown Fight
(The Root) — By the time Americans finish eating Christmas turkey, recover from New Year’s Eve hangovers and start looking ahead to Super Bowl Sunday and President Barack Obama’s sixth State of the Union address, the government shutdown of 2013 will already seem like ancient history. Poll numbers will shift, issues will change and members…
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Obamacare Critic Ben Carson Insults Slaves
(The Root) — If William F. Buckley Jr.’s definition of a conservative was someone who “stands athwart history yelling, ‘Stop’,” maybe Dr. Ben Carson’s idea of conservatism is standing athwart the present saying “slavery” as many times as he can. And if so, it’s a good way to grab headlines for himself. But it’s also…
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Obama Has Compromised Already
(The Root) — Given that they spent their August recess bragging that they’d oppose Obamacare at all costs, you’d think House Republicans would take ownership of the government shutdown. But maybe they’re not all that proud of it, because after the shutdown’s first full day, they pushed back on President Barack Obama’s assertion that it’s…
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Shut It Down: It's a Win for Obama and Cruz
(The Root) — With each passing “crisis” in the zero-sum game of congressional politics, we’ve gotten used to sorting out the winners and losers of every battle. But as September’s round of Washington’s annual budget fight tightens up — and a government shutdown looms for Tuesday — what we have, so far, is a win-win:…
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Good, Bad and Ugly in Obama's Syria Speech
(The Root) — When you’ve got conservative USA Today columnist Glenn Harlan Reynolds choosing to quote progressive Atlantic columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates on his way to making the case that the president’s plan for military intervention in Syria is “dumb,” it’s safe to say that if you’re Barack Obama, what you’ve got on your hands is…
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The Perfect Speech for an Imperfect Union
(The Root) — Though, like so many others, I was moved by President Barack Obama’s insightful remarks at Friday’s White House press briefing, I stand by my view that the president would have been better served in the long run if he’d let his original comments on the George Zimmerman verdict stand on their own.…
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Obama's Response to the Verdict Was Right
(The Root) — Though it’s compellingly argued and passionately felt, I disagree with the assessment of my colleague at The Root, Keli Goff, that President Barack Obama’s statement about Saturday’s George Zimmerman verdict was disappointing or somehow offensive. After all, everyone has a part to play in this tragedy, and Obama’s is unlike anyone else’s.…
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