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<title><![CDATA[Jacob Weisberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14894.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jacob Weisberg]]></description><category domain="14894">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Could Bring Down Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/michael-avenatti-stormy-daniels-lawyer-could-bring-down-donald-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Someday, when the story of Donald Trump&rsquo;s decline and fall comes to be written, historians may wonder at the impact of a hiring decision that passed by unnoted at the time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Drowns Out Democrats' Populist Pitch]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Financial Times]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Legacy Won't Be His Political Achievements]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/obama_s_legacy_will_be_inspirational_rather_than_transformational.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, Barack Obama was already contemplating his presidential legacy. I know because I talked to him about it in 2006, during a long interview ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why So Glum, Hillary? Optimism Always Beats Pessimism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/are_things_really_as_bad_as_trump_and_clinton_make_it_seem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RUSH:&#195;&#130; There is an overwhelming acknowledgment now that never has the media so publicly abandoned what its job is.&#195;&#130;  It isn't media anymore.&#195;&#130;  It is literally a Democrat Party campaign organization.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump on Ice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/trump_probably_won_t_be_the_nominee_how_will_the_gop_get_rid_of_him.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This article appears in slightly different form in the Financial Times. When my son was in the third grade, I went ice skating with his grammar school ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Needs to Remake Her Own Image to Beat Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/is_hillary_clinton_likable_enough_to_beat_donald_trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the Democratic debate this week in Miami a reporter from the Washington Post asked Hillary Clinton a blunt question. Citing a poll result that only 37 percent of Americans consider her honest and trustworthy, the journalist asked, &ldquo;Is there anything in your own actions and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Today's Republicans Don't Get About Reagan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/opinion/what-todays-republicans-dont-get-about-reagan.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HE supported the biggest amnesty bill in history for illegal immigrants, advocated gun control, used Keynesian stimulus to jump-start the economy, favored personal diplomacy even with the country&rsquo;s sworn enemies and instituted tax increases in six of the eight years of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Imperial President? Hardly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/republicans_smart_response_to_obama_s_executive_action_the_gop_should_pass.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a clear majority in both houses, Republicans face a difficult choice about whether to compromise with President Obama on a series of issues. Obama has already made it clear that he won&rsquo;t be waiting for their decision. Instead, he is going to spend his final two years in office...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Series of Overrated Scandals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2013/05/barack_obama_s_scandals_why_the_white_house_is_suddenly_beset_by_the_controversies.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington&rsquo;s need for periodic scandal is almost biological. For legislators, it&rsquo;s an opportunity to strut on the national stage. For the party out of power, it is politics by other means. For the press, it&rsquo;s an escape from the boredom and frustration of a second term....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Sets a Lose-Lose Trap for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2013/02/obama_s_sotu_the_president_dares_republicans_to_oppose_his_grand_plans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama campaigned and won re-election without anything much resembling a second-term agenda. On the campaign trail, he called for greater tax fairness, more jobs, and doing something or other about immigration. Seeking refuge in even greater vagueness, Mitt Romney was in no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Lost Winnable Race Thanks to GOP Extremism]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/11/07/why-mitt-romney-lost/#axzz2BNRZumQP</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What ought to pain Republicans most about Barack Obama&rsquo;s victory is that 2012 was entirely winnable for them. In European elections over the past few years, voters have thrown out leaders who were in charge during the worst of the financial crisis, whether those leaders deserved...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ryan Reframes the Race the Way Obama Wishes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/08/why_paul_ryan_was_probably_the_best_choice_mitt_romney_could_make_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Introducing his running mate against the backdrop of the USS Wisconsin on Saturday, Mitt Romney flubbed his easiest line. &ldquo;Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States,&rdquo; he declared. There is no way to avoid reading this as a Freudian slip. Romney&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reality of &quot;Chicago-Style Politics&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/07/mitt_romney_s_campaign_is_attempting_to_link_barack_obama_to_the_corruption_of_chicago_style_politics_of_a_different_era_.single.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If I hear one more person accuse the Obama campaign of practicing &ldquo;Chicago-style politics,&rdquo; I'm gonna kick all his nephews off the park-district payroll.  I&rsquo;m gonna send some precinct captains over to straighten him out. Mitt Romney and his surrogates don&rsquo;t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Bain Pain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/07/romney_and_bain_capital_why_he_s_so_afraid_of_talking_about_what_he_did_at_bain_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney seems genuinely stunned that President Obama would question the value of his proudest accomplishment, founding and running Bain Capital for 15 years (or maybe a little bit more). To Romney and others who work in finance, it&rsquo;s self-evident that what private equity firms...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Face It: Romney's the Nominee]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/01/mitt_romney_s_the_nominee_the_republican_primary_race_is_over_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is there anyone not annoyed by Mitt Romney&rsquo;s narrow win in the Iowa caucus? Conservatives are disappointed because they recognize that the former Massachusetts governor, who used to be pro-choice and was for Obamacare before it was called that, is only pretending to be one of them....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Believe Ron Suskind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2304228/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter"&rdquo;an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect "&rdquo;a feeling I always had when reading stories by Stephen Glass in the New Republic....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Let Him Die&quot;: Why U.S. Needs ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2303760/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidates Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum at the Sept. 12 debatesWolf Blitzer put a terrific question to Rep. Ron Paul at last night's CNN/Tea Party Express Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Antediluvian Republicans Are the Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2300840/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is hard to remember a more dismal moment in American politics. The debt-ceiling crisis and the agreement that ended it point to deep dysfunction in our system. In a variety of ways, the episode portends continued short-term economic misery and long-term national decline. It's as if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Foreign Policy: Humanitarian Obama Is Ascendant]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2295408/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack ObamaFew presidents arrive in office with large plans around foreign affairs. Yet most live to see their reputations defined by it. For Barack Obama, whose time in office coincides with a series of tectonic shifts in global structure"&rdquo;the Arab revolutions, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Tea Party Movement Is Culpable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2280711/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's something offensive, as well as pointless, about the politically  charged inquiry into what might have been swirling inside the head of  Jared Loughner. We hear that the accused shooter read The Communist Manifesto and liked flag-burning videos&mdash;good news for the right....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Losing His War on Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2278914/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wasn't reversing the decades-long trend toward income inequality  supposed to be the big theme of the Obama administration? The new  president sounded it strongly in his inaugural address,  stating that "a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the  prosperous." He followed up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right's Elitist Nonsense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2269576/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there's one epithet the right never tires of, it's "elitism." Republicans are constantly accusing Democrats of it this campaign season, as when Kentucky Senate nominee Rand Paul attacked President Obama as "a liberal elitist "? [who] believes that he knows what is best for people."...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party Fueled by Anxiety, Anarchism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2267685/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After its primary victories this week in Delaware and New York&mdash;following  ones in Kentucky, Arizona, and Alaska&mdash;there is no longer any question  about whether to take the Tea Party seriously. Come 2011, we are likely  to have Mama Grizzlies  in the House and Senate, and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Grand Unified Theory of Palinisms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2262822/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Buy Palinisms: The Accidental Wit &amp; Wisdom of Sarah Palin, by Jacob Weisberg. Like Palinisms on Facebook.So far as I can tell, Sarah Palin has four core beliefs:1. Things go better with God.2. Yay, Alaska!3. Let's drill that sucker.4. Curse you, political establishment.Palinisms occur...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Battle for GOP Soul is West vs. South]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2255433/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One way to understand the divisions in the Republican Party is as a clash of regional philosophies. Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Whirlwind Tour of the British Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2252696/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg In London last week for a hack's holiday, I was asked several times: Do Americans care about the British election? The truthful answer is no, we don't, mainly because we haven't developed a relationship with any of the candidates. Unlike the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame Rubin for Financial Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2252363/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seldom does a Sunday pass of late without Frank Rich, the New York Times columnist, taking a potshot at Robert Rubin. This past week he took two. But I've been having a hard time understanding what Rich and others who are angry at Rubin are angry about. Sometimes they claim he blocked...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame the Childish, Ignorant American Public]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2243797/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Caused the Economic Crisis?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2240858/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What caused the recession?As the financial crisis of 2008-09 draws to a close, narratives of the meltdown are flooding bookstores, think tanks are cranking out white papers, and four different congressional committees, along with the official Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Aren't Serious on Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2238098/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Weisberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[GOP Sens. Charles Grassley and Orrin Hatch Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate finance committee, has emerged as one of the harshest critics of what the right likes to call "Obamacare." After spending the first half of the year working with Democrats to find a...]]></description>
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