Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.
‐‐ George Packer
Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.
‐‐ Vicente Fox
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
‐‐ Paul Ryan
Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams
Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
‐‐ Eric Alterman
Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
‐‐ Joe Wurzelbacher
Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez
Obama may be brilliant, but he's not a leader.
‐‐ Sophie B. Hawkins
Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen
Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.
‐‐ Ron Fournier
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
‐‐ Bob Beauprez
Obama, of course, outspent McCain.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.
‐‐ George Packer
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
‐‐ Gary Bauer
Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.
‐‐ David K. Shipler
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs
Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.
‐‐ Ron Fournier
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
‐‐ David Limbaugh
Obama really is a warrior in chief. He's not afraid to get the job done.
‐‐ Peter Berg
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza
Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
‐‐ Ice Cube
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
‐‐ Aaron Klein
Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
‐‐ Bill Gross
Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.
‐‐ Pete Rose
Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?
‐‐ Chuck Todd
Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
‐‐ Barton Gellman
Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.
‐‐ Sarah Palin
Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.
‐‐ Steve Stockman
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
‐‐ John Lydon
Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.
‐‐ Michael Hastings
Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
‐‐ Mara Liasson
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
‐‐ Boris Johnson
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
‐‐ Judith Butler