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GENE WEINGARTENMany put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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I think politics is everything.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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