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Reeves: The Obama transition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Richard Reeves, Syndicated columnist GHS Posted Nov 12, 2008 @ 12:28 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country (has) two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed." So it was as the man from Illinois, a man with little experience wielding great power, headed for Washington and the most powerful job in the country. That man was Abraham Lincoln, who had to wait a full four months before succeeding the incompetent, almost inert, incumbent, James Buchanan. The quote is from the introduction...

Man of the Year: Roy Moore by Ann Coulter Posted Dec 19, 2003 Uttering the standard liberal cliché a few years ago, Richard Reeves described "representatives of the new South" as "Republicans of old Puritan definition, righteous folk afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun." (I'll skip the context of Reeves' insight, except to note that apparently aging liberals view sodomy with the chubby intern in the back office as "having fun.") Like all beliefs universally held by liberals, Reeves's aphorism is the precise opposite of the truth. It's the blue states that are constantly sending lawyers to the red...

Sen. John Kerry spent the weekend in the Hamptons but never got to the beach. There is no time for sand and sea when you are gathering money for a presidential campaign. The man from Massachusetts had a pretty good couple of days. Several dozen New Yorkers (mostly) paid $500 each to hear him at a brunch in Southampton, where he was introduced as the candidate with: "the war record of John Kennedy, the brains of Bill Clinton (news - web sites), the toughness of Lyndon Johnson and the hair of Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)." A good time...

Columnist's comments on Bush met with cheers, jeers Richard Reeves predicts President Bush will be assassinated over the war. By ROBERT ECKHART robert.eckhart@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA -- The jeers started at about the time syndicated columnist Richard Reeves predicted that President Bush will be assassinated over the war with Iraq. Reeves, addressing a crowd of 1,700 at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Wednesday, also called Secretary of State Colin Powell "incompetent" and -- this one got the most boos -- said that starting a war with Iraq will be the beginning of the end of the American Empire. A few hundred...

By Richard Reeves WASHINGTON -- This was a day in the life of the president of the United States, Thursday, April 18, 2002: The circumstances of endless savagery in the Middle East forced him to look into a television camera and tell the world that Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) is "a man of peace." Halfway around the world, on the West Bank, the U.N. peace envoy to the Middle East, a Norwegian hardly given to flamboyant language, one of the first outsiders to inspect Mr. Sharon's recent work, looked into other cameras and said: "Horrifying, horrifying ... Israel...