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Obama’s Checking His List and Checking Things Off

December 18, 2014 Buck Banks

He’s going down a checklist of thorny, longstanding problems, and he’s doing whatever he can to tackle them. These are things that have been tearing at us for decades and generations. My sense is his feeling is, I’m not going to leave office without doing everything I can to stop them.

— David Axelrod, quoted by the New York Times, on President Obama’s recent actions.

Barack Obama’s Literary Criticism

December 1, 2014 Buck Banks

He’s just sad.

— President Obama, quoted by the New York Post, picking up a copy of Chuck Todd’s new book, “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House,” in a Washington, D.C., bookstore.

Start the Exaggerations!

November 24, 2014 Buck Banks

Lo, once again, the political cycle completes,
Republicans rise rampant, Democrats sink in defeat.
But Obama’s executive action
Has irked the GOP to distraction,
Predicting armed uprisings and anarchy in the streets!

Obama May Not Be on the Ballot in November, But His Policies Are

October 3, 2014 Buck Banks

I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.

— President Obama, quoted by the Washington Post.

Obama’s Climate-Change Efforts Won’t Pass the History Test

June 3, 2014 Buck Banks

But fifty years from now, is that going to seem like enough? I think the answer to that is going to be no.

— White House adviser John Podesta, in an interview with Harper’s, on how President Obama’s new climate change efforts will be viewed historically.

Obama Focused on His Legacy

January 21, 2014 Buck Banks

I have no desire to be one of those presidents who are just on the list — you see their pictures lined up on the wall. I really want to be a president who makes a difference.

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Obama’s Checking His List and Checking Things Off

He’s going down a checklist of thorny, longstanding problems, and he’s doing whatever he can to tackle them. These are things that have been tearing at us for decades and generations. My sense is his feeling is, I’m not going to leave office without doing everything I can to stop them.

— David Axelrod, quoted by the New York Times, on President Obama’s recent actions.

Barack Obama’s Literary Criticism

He’s just sad.

— President Obama, quoted by the New York Post, picking up a copy of Chuck Todd’s new book, “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House,” in a Washington, D.C., bookstore.

Start the Exaggerations!

Obama May Not Be on the Ballot in November, But His Policies Are

I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.

— President Obama, quoted by the Washington Post.

Obama’s Climate-Change Efforts Won’t Pass the History Test

But fifty years from now, is that going to seem like enough? I think the answer to that is going to be no.

— White House adviser John Podesta, in an interview with Harper’s, on how President Obama’s new climate change efforts will be viewed historically.

Obama Focused on His Legacy

I have no desire to be one of those presidents who are just on the list — you see their pictures lined up on the wall. I really want to be a president who makes a difference.

— President Obama, in an interview with The New Yorker.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.