Rich Lowry

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.