PostPartisan Archive: Cohen
Finally, an Inaugural Address
It came a bit late, but Barack Obama finally gave his inaugural address. It was sweeping, and it was grand. It was uplifting, and it was profound. It sang, as Walt Whitman did, of a glorious country. The president...
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February 24, 2009; 11:18 PM ET |
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Leaders Out to Lunch
Congress, having done nothing, is on its way home. The president, doing nothing, remains in the White House. The president-elect, having appointed a secretary of health and human services but no one to lead Treasury, remains mostly out of...
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November 21, 2008; 10:33 AM ET |
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The Final Debate: McCain's Last Stand
John McCain, movie buff extraordinaire, will instantly appreciate my metaphor: He’s a palooka on the way down. He’s the guy, from countless movies of the 1940s and 1950s, who’s been a prize fighter for too long, whose gifts have...
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October 16, 2008; 9:15 AM ET |
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Seeing Is Experiencing, But Better
Okay, so I didn’t exactly go into Eye-rack in a technical sense, but I got close and I saw it and that ought to count for something. This is how I know about Russia, and it prepares me for...
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September 15, 2008; 8:20 AM ET |
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The GOP Takes Hostages
Where’s the pride? I ask that of every Republican who in recent days has done the bidding of the McCain campaign and lied about what Barack Obama said regarding that now famous pig and lipstick. First off the mark...
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September 11, 2008; 8:53 AM ET |
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A Private Matter
On the MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” one of the Andrea Mitchell triplets -- one works the morning shift, one the afternoon and the other the night -- sternly cautioned me and other media types that the pregnancy of 17-year-old...
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September 2, 2008; 10:25 AM ET |
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