Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. - Andrew Sullivan
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
- Andrew Sullivan
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? - Andrew Sullivan
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a vi… - Andrew Sullivan
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a vi…
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics … - Andrew Sullivan
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics …
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and im… - Andrew Sullivan
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and im…
A mind is a wonderful thing to change. - Andrew Sullivan
A mind is a wonderful thing to change.
Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. - Andrew Sullivan
Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online. - Andrew Sullivan
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow. - Andrew Sullivan
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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