Opinion: The Obama second term — doing the Clintonian pivot

By Lanny J. Davis – 10/26/12 Last week on the ABC Sunday morning news program “This Week,” Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, was asked about what to expect in an Obama second term if he is reelected on Nov. 6.

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Opinion: Advice to President Obama for Tuesday night’s debate

By Lanny Davis – 10/15/12 Dear Mr. President: I disagree with most of the advice you have been getting regarding what you should do in Tuesday night’s debate, as I do with the analysis from the same critics from my fellow liberals in the Democratic Party regarding your performance in the first debate on Oct. […]

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Opinion: The first debate — the only way for a ‘game-change’ moment

By Lanny J. Davis – 10/03/12 I predict that nothing that happens tonight at the first debate is likely fundamentally to change the status quo: a tight election with President Obama likely to win.

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Obama-Clinton center rejoined

By Lanny Davis – 09/19/12 07:12 PM ET The irony is too overwhelming to resist. After Bill Clinton’s speech on Sept. 5, the same pundits on the left who were critical of Bill Clinton’s “centrism” and “triangulation” in the 1990s and through the Obama primary campaign were gushing about Clinton on national TV. And many […]

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Campaign Civility IS Possible

by: Michael Steele and Lanny Davis | from: AARP Bulletin | September 5, 2012 Bringing back civility to the presidential campaign. For Civility in the Campaign. The very headline suggests we have an uphill battle convincing most people that civility and etiquette are still possible in American presidential campaigns — since we felt obliged to […]

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3 reasons why Clinton is campaigning for Obama

By Lanny Davis, September 06, 2012, FoxNews.com All the rumors, hearsay, speculation, and motives divining about President Clinton’s speech in Charlotte Wednesday night were rendered irrelevant by the simple truths he articulated in stating his argument for President Barack Obama’s reelection.

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Opinion: The two Clinton legacies that Obama should continue

By Lanny J. Davis – 09/04/12 There are many legacies of the Bill Clinton presidency, but two should influence President Obama most of all as he hits the reset button Thursday night to begin his general-election campaign.

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Opinion: Obama’s best argument for reelection

By Lanny J. Davis – 08/29/12 06:00 AM ET (This column was preceded yesterday by one presenting Mitt Romney’s best arguments for winning the presidency in 2012. The author supports Barack Obama for reelection.)

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Opinion: Romney’s best argument to win in 2012

by Lanny Davis | The Hill | 08/28/12 (This is the first of two columns pre-GOP and -Democratic conventions. This will present the best arguments Romney can make for Americans to elect him over President Obama. The next column will present President Obama’s best arguments. The writer supports President Obama’s reelection.)

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Aurora reminds us to raise campaign tone

by Lanny Davis | The Hill | 07/25/12 Early Friday morning in Aurora, Colo., we were reminded that there remains in the world the existence of pure, sociopathic evil — an inhuman monster who celebrates death and has no sensations from a beating heart of feelings, empathy or anything other than the glorification of death.

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