I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.