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You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.

Gene Weingarten

Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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Men People Thinking
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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Kids Minority School
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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Giving Phones Talking
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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Dictator Popularity Thinking
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Care Democracy Support
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
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Beliefs Ethnicity Race
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
Many 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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Change Greatest Many Won
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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Certain Strong Suits
One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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Books Doctors Kings
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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Albatross Mean Verbs
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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Decision Important Thinking
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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Believe Matter Thinking
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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Gone Names Recognition
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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Atheist Hate Sorry
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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Believe Dope Lying

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