realist's

She also echoes as Zakaria himself did another Beltway realist's jibe that leftish critics think "every known impediment to the legislative process -- special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion -- are but tiny stick huts trembling in the face of the atomic bomb of the presidential speech."

Jim Sleeper: Great Orations Vs. Great Obfuscations Jim Sleeper 2011

She also echoes as Zakaria himself did another Beltway realist's jibe that leftish critics think "every known impediment to the legislative process -- special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion -- are but tiny stick huts trembling in the face of the atomic bomb of the presidential speech."

Jim Sleeper: Great Orations Vs. Great Obfuscations Jim Sleeper 2011

She also echoes as Zakaria himself did another Beltway realist's jibe that leftish critics think "every known impediment to the legislative process -- special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion -- are but tiny stick huts trembling in the face of the atomic bomb of the presidential speech."

Jim Sleeper: Great Orations Vs. Great Obfuscations Jim Sleeper 2011

She also echoes as Zakaria himself did another Beltway realist's jibe that leftish critics think "every known impediment to the legislative process -- special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion -- are but tiny stick huts trembling in the face of the atomic bomb of the presidential speech."

Jim Sleeper: Great Orations Vs. Great Obfuscations Jim Sleeper 2011

She also echoes as Zakaria himself did another Beltway realist's jibe that leftish critics think "every known impediment to the legislative process -- special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion -- are but tiny stick huts trembling in the face of the atomic bomb of the presidential speech."

Jim Sleeper: Great Orations Vs. Great Obfuscations Jim Sleeper 2011

Yet it will show us to advantage — a great power doing good, even when the do-gooding is outside a realist's flinty calculus of a national interest.

When Soft Hearts Make Smart Policy 2010

Both of them seem too interested in writing to be reliable social critics, the role Brooks appears to think supercedes all else in the realist's job description.

Realism in Fiction 2008

A "smart power" foreign policy assumes a realist's understanding of geo-strategic considerations, but it also appreciates the benefits of positive American values in a world arena where ideology still has a role to play.

J. Brian Atwood: The Importance of 'Democracy Promotion' 2009

MonaL: Assuming you are one of those black people who believe Sen. Obama "isn't ready", please expand your comment to include specific deficiencies in his background, and your view of their impact, from a "political realist's" perspective.

Prominent Obama Supporter Calls Black Skepticism "Slave Mentality" 2009

Rows of books, suggestive of stages in his most productive life, lined the walls of the Niebuhrian realist's work room.

William E. Jackson Jr.: Samuel P. Huntington: A Great American Patriot and A Giant Among Scholars (1927-2008) 2009