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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

Ron Fournier's Popular Quotes

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

- Ron Fournier

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

- Ron Fournier

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

- Ron Fournier

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

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I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

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For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

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Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

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Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

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Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

- Ron Fournier