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“What the do-gooders allegedly did was not just misguided. It could be criminal, and Haitian authorities are right to hold them accountable.”
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#27 Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
Eugene Robinson has written an op-ed column for The Washington Post since 2005. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
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Sharp, affable, and plainspoken, Robinson has combined print commentary with a television career as well as anyone. He frequently appears on MSNBC's evening programming, sometimes hitting every show in a single night. Robinson was indispensable to the left-leaning network during the 2008 Democratic primaries and the general election because he embodied, more than any other pundit, the spirit and message of Obama liberalism.
A former correspondent in Buenos Aires, Robinson often writes about Latin America, urging an end to the Cuba embargo and a firmer hand with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s firebrand leader. One of many pundits to slam Hillary Clinton for refusing to capitulate in the later stages of her 2008 campaign, he then praised her when she finally did. The personalities of the powerful animate his columns—fitting for a journalist who once ran The Post's Style section.
Sharp, affable, and plainspoken, Robinson has combined print commentary with a television career as well as anyone. He frequently appears on MSNBC's evening programming, sometimes hitting every show in a single night. Robinson was indispensable to the left-leaning network during the 2008 Democratic primaries and the general election because he embodied, more than any other pundit, the spirit and message of Obama liberalism.
A former correspondent in Buenos Aires, Robinson often writes about Latin America, urging an end to the Cuba embargo and a firmer hand with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s firebrand leader. One of many pundits to slam Hillary Clinton for refusing to capitulate in the later stages of her 2008 campaign, he then praised her when she finally did. The personalities of the powerful animate his columns—fitting for a journalist who once ran The Post's Style section.
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February 5, 2010
Toyota Recall
Accelerating to Failure
“Raise your hand if you think it's a great idea to make our cars precisely as dependable and problem-free as, gulp, our personal computers.”
February 2, 2010
Scott Brown's Rise
Sen. All-About-Me
“The last thing Washington needs is another politician who refers to himself as his own brand and promises to chart his own lonely path.”
January 29, 2010
State Of The Union
Obama's Poor Positioning
“It is a tribute to Obama's rhetorical gifts that the man at the center of our political system could position himself as an exasperated but hopeful outsider.”
January 26, 2010
Health Care Reform
Fighting Words
“Obama's approval ratings have sagged. I'm convinced that this is because results count more than process.”
January 22, 2010
Health Care Reform
Obama on Health Care: Fight Or Flight?
“Obama has said nothing that would help the party get out of what now can officially be called the Health Care Mess. If anything, Obama is making it messier.”
January 19, 2010
Health Care Reform
Tough Lessons From Obama's First Year
“Obama has to be seen as fighting for more than 'the best we could hope for.'”
January 15, 2010
GOP Civil War
Michael Steele Turns the Tables on GOP
“The [GOP] should have known that it wasn't getting a chairman who would just shut up, sit in the corner and wait to be trotted out when the subject of diversity came up.”
January 12, 2010
Race
Crudely Put, Yet True
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's newly disclosed remark about President Obama -- that voters are more comfortable with him because he's light-skinned -- offended decorum. But it was surely true.”
January 8, 2010
Flight 253
A Strategy that Needs Fewer Dots
“"Connecting the dots" is a lousy metaphor that creates unrealistic expectations.”
January 5, 2010
National Security
The Innocent Suspect
“Cuba is not a failed state where swaths of territory lie beyond government control; rather, it is one of the most tightly locked-down societies in the world, a place where the idea of private citizens getting their hands on plastic explosives, or terrorist weapons of any kind, is simply laughable.”
December 29, 2009
Federal Agencies
The Bigger 'System' Failure
“Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano's initial assessment of the Christmas Day airliner attack -- that "the system worked" -- doesn't quite match the absurdity of "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." But only because she quickly took it back.”
December 18, 2009
Health Care Reform
Playing the Health Care Game
“The waverers and the opportunists have been allowed to take control.”
December 15, 2009
Climate Change
Palin's Own 'Climate-gate'
“She made any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor -- and now, it seems, will be obliged to renounce them all.”
December 10, 2009
Obama's Nobel Prize
War and Peace
“President Obama accepted the Nobel for peacemaking by delivering an eloquent, often grim treatise on the nature and necessity of warfare.”