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  • Obama the Avatar

    10/25/2013 2:04:23 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 22 replies
    NRO ^ | October 25, 2013 | y Charles C. W. Cooke
    Discussing the Obamacare disaster in the Rose Garden on Monday, President Obama led with a phrase to which we have become accustomed: “Nobody,” the president emoted, “is madder than me” about this mess. Along with “let me be clear” and “make no mistake,” this is a favorite construction. Obama, you see, is more concerned for and correct about everything than everybody else at all times. “Nobody shares the frustrations of the American people more than I do,” he told WABC earlier this month; “nobody is more frustrated” than he about the IRS scandal; “no person,” the president affirmed during the...
  • George Will: Caesaropapism Rampant

    05/26/2008 5:44:35 PM PDT · by The_Republican · 10 replies · 38+ views
    Newsweek ^ | May 26th, 2008 | George Will
    Barack Obama recently said, "I believe in our ability to perfect this nation." Clearly there is something the candidate of "change" will not change—the pattern of extravagant presidential rhetoric. Obama is trying to replace a president who vowed to "rid the world of evil"—and of tyranny, too. But then, rhetorical—and related—excesses are inherent in the modern presidency. This is so for reasons brilliantly explored in the year's most pertinent and sobering public affairs book, "The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power," by Gene Healy of Washington's libertarian Cato Institute. Healy's dissection of the delusions of "redemption...