PostPartisan Archive: Gerson
Ruth Marcus going rogue
My normally mild-mannered colleague Ruth Marcus has gone rogue about my recent column on Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Sept. 11 conspirators in Manhattan. She makes a number of sincere but flimsy arguments that...
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November 19, 2009; 12:28 PM ET |
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The Democrats get lashed
The most pathetic moment of Creigh Deeds’s sad campaign came toward the end, with a gauzy commercial invoking last year’s Obama campaign, featuring the tag line, “We can do it again.” Jon Corzine ran similar ads in the Obama...
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Michael Gerson
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November 4, 2009; 9:19 AM ET |
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Obama's Nobel for Good Intentions
Apparently, they now give out a Nobel Peace Prize for good intentions. Unless I have missed something, President Obama has not yet achieved a nuclear free world -- which was also, by the way, Ronald Reagan's good intention. He...
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October 9, 2009; 8:29 AM ET |
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The Problem With Cable News
I’m attending a conference today – “First Draft of History,” sponsored by the Atlantic, the Aspen Institute and the Newseum – at which David Gregory interviewed John McCain. When asked about the decline of civility and bipartisanship in Washington,...
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Michael Gerson
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October 1, 2009; 11:47 AM ET |
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Klein Drowns in the Ethical Shallows
On Friday, Post blogger Ezra Klein took a short break from Barack Obama’s unpaid policy staff to respond to my last column and dismiss the importance of bigotry and hatred on the Internet. “That doesn’t describe the Internet I...
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Michael Gerson
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September 26, 2009; 4:31 PM ET |
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All About Obama
I’ve refrained from commenting on President Obama’s address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry. And most postings -- or letters, or e-mails -- written while angry are better discarded or deleted. But this...
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September 26, 2009; 6:00 AM ET |
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