Barack Obama

...About Nothing). Shakespeare described John McCain's reaction to Obama's eloquent speeches, indicating a hint of jealousy from the ole' war horse: "I want that glib and oily art -- to speak and purpose not" (King Lear). Last week, of...

In this article: George W. Bush, William Shakespeare, Joe Biden, Hamlet, Love's Labor's Lost, and John McCain

...but as a playwright. Obama (who, as Robert Draper wrote, has read and reread Shakespeare's tragedies) does not want his fatal flaw to be that he compromises so much that his ideals get blurred out of recognition. As Leon Wieseltier...

In this article: Vaclav Havel, Dalai Lama, New Orleans, The New York Times, FDR, China, and White House

" But defenders say that Mr. Obama's reticence is as intellectual as it is tactical. If Shakespeare could write like that, he'd have used it in Hamlet. The Times piece is ingenious: All these words - "opaque", "reticent", "wary" - are...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Rashid Khalidi, Hamlet, and The New York Times

...from it at random. For the second time, Mr. Obama will grace the cover of Rolling Stone this week, and Jann S. Wenner, the magazine's editor and publisher, conducted the interview on the Obama campaign plane on June 12. It was not all about...

In this article: Rolling Stone, Jann S. Wenner, John McCain, Bob Dylan, Spanish Civil War, William Shakespeare, IPod, and For Whom the Bell Tolls

...in many ideological directions. He draws also on the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who crafted the concept of the "just war" and argued for the morality, under certain circumstances, of nuclear armament. "Obama carries in his intellectual...

In this article: Ideology, Fred Siegel, Democratic Party, Bob Casey, Pennsylvania, Liberalism, Tax, Global warming, and Iraq War

...don't last forever, said Jeff Shesol, a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. In an echo of William Shakespeare, Obama used the phrase in his inaugural address and again this week during a news conference to convey the severity of...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Richard III, Bill Clinton, Ohio, and U.S.

...Stone<nowiki></nowiki>'s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. The song was recorded on the morning of the day Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for President. The music video was shot on Sunday, November 23, 2008 in Atlanta,...

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