Word: manness
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...know…right?” Know what? “Well, that he’s the antichrist!” My dutiful volunteer, a regular churchgoer, had to ask: “How do you reconcile yourself to voting in the man you believe is Lucifer?” “Well, I’ve got to tell you that it was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve ever had to make, but when I saw McCain’s tax plan?...
...does the President's personality or the country's mood affect the parade? Take Dwight Eisenhower. He was a military man with a no-nonsense personality, so it was a very conservative parade. Basically, he said, "Look, each state will be limited - one float, one band and one military unit, and that's it. No big deal." And it wasn't. The parade took just two hours...
...offered to the world a similar prospect: "Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more...
...they could all say they were there, to stand together and glimpse a man in the very far distance accept the full weight of their hopes. That, in the end, is the source of Obama's power. What are we willing to let him do with his office, with a power greater than the one he had when he began this day? At his national-security briefing in the morning, Obama was instructed in the use of the nuclear codes, should he ever have to launch a strike. Once he was sworn in, once the 21 guns had saluted...
...memoir, and earn some bank on that mythical "speaking circuit" that has proved so remunerative for Presidents past. His immediate predecessors include two astoundingly productive ex-presidents (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton), some lackadaisical ones (Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush), a disgraced lion in winter (Richard Nixon) and a man who, in hindsight, was likely in the emerging stages of a devastating sickness (Ronald Reagan). But America has had many presidents over the centuries (43, last time we counted) who generally fall into several, non-exclusive categories...