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Definition: Charles Krauthammer = A Neo-Conservative writer and theorist,  who worships at his inner shrine to these three deities: Nihilism, Chaos and Strife. These are the gods of masculine privilege and power, without mitigation. Mr. Krauthammer is a physician who, in practice, finds the Hippocratic injunction against doing harm unnecessary baggage, in the quest to annul the liberal ascendancy and to enforce the American will to power, as part of our historical destiny.   

Definition: George F. Will = In the weedy field of The American Republic stands the singular effloresce that is Mr. Will. He presents himself as the channeled spirit of Edmund Burke, the great English parliamentarian. Burke was a man and a thinker with a largeness of spirit and humanity, a defender of hereditary power as demonstrative of an inherent benevolence. Although Mr. Will has never demonstrated the breadth and depth of the Burkian political/moral sensibility, he continues to strike politic poses garnished with the apt quotation from his intellectual master, without, in the least, demonstrating any coherent understanding of Burke, the man, the moralist, the politician, except as a handy rhetorical prop to enrich his political nay saying.

Definition: Obamaism = A case of overwhelming political timidity or utter lack of faith in your own political vision or simple opportunism. One can parse this adjective in so many ways, it is a truly elastic concept. It encompasses Clinton, Holbrooke, Geithner,  Summers ; it could be synonymous with Clintonism or  New Democrat; an intellectual concept as big tent.