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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne. – John Podhoretz

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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called progressives should be thanking him for it – even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. – John Podhoretz

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