8 Quotes by Jack Cashill

Life is the great civil rights issue of our day

As Vladimir Lenin once reportedly said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Although Obama did not drink deeply at this well, he drank deeply enough to be intoxicated with its spirit.

Although leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of lying as a conscious strategy.

As has been seen, Obama clearly lied about transparency. As shall be seen, he lied just as spectacularly about the rule of law.

If this new breed of activist urged Obama to hammer away at the Constitution, old-school civil libertarians lamented its demolition. The longtime Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff had fought many a battle for civil liberties and had scars enough to speak his mind. “Apparently he doesn’t give one damn about the separation of powers.” said Hentoff of Obama after the president’s “pen and phone” remarks. “Never before in our history has a president done these things.

Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.

For Obama, ignorance was never an excuse. Ignorance was a strategy.

Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a “mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re-creation, invention, and artful shaping.